Egypt
Cuban preservation of Egyptian art
Cuba News Headlines
Cuban experts showed in Cairo the work done by the National Museum of Fine Arts of Cuba (MNBA) to preserve more than 100 pieces of its Egyptian art collection, mainly from the inexhaustible Pharaonic times.
MNBA specialists Aymee Chicuri Lastra and Niurka Fanego Alfonso, who have devoted their work to collections of Egyptian and Italian art, gave a lecture at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo before scholars, diplomats and local public, who were captivated by the zeal with which Cuba, a country with economic limitations, studies and preserves that historical-cultural heritage of mankind.
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Auk Hosts Talk On Preserving Me Heritage
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Hawass And Hosni On Official Visit To Cuba
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Review: Lagunilla Collection In Havana, Cuba
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Cuba's Only Mummy
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Mfa Highlights: Arts Of Ancient Egypt
Rita Freed Lawrence M. Berman Denise M. Doxey Museum of Fine Arts Boston 2003 ISBN 0-87846-661-4 Recently my nine year old charge Natasha was on her way to Boston with her family so I urged her to visit the Museum of Fine...
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