Egypt
Egypt State Information Service
- Mameluke Makeover
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) As Muslims were celebrating the end of the holy month of Ramadan, Culture Minister Farouk Hosni and Minister of Endowments Hamdi Zaqzouq attended the official reopening of three restored Islamic buildings in Al-Saliba...
- Hosni Rejects Idea For A Jewish Museum In Egypt
State Information Service The Culture Ministry stressed that it will never permit any U.S Jewish or non U.S Jewish organization to set up a museum for Jewish antiquities in Egypt. Culture Minister Farouk Hosni, who met with a U.S Jewish...
- Le28m To Restore Coptic Museum
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/2/ President Hosni Mubarak is due to inaugurate the recently renovated Coptic Museum, part of the Religious Complex at Old Cairo, within the next few days. The Museum has been overhauled and restored by the Ministry...
- Kom Ombo - Sobek Temple And A New Museum
http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o100425v.htm "Culture Minister Farouk Hosni unveils next month the Sobek temple in Kom Ombo, which bas been restored at a cost of LE 15 million . . . Minister Hosni will also inaugurate a new museum displaying mummified...
- The Mummy Of Amenhotep
Here we have the newly restored mummy of a child named Amenhotep who's mummy was damaged during the robbery of the Cairo Museum in January of 2011. The looters who entered the museum via a skylight broke the head off Amenhotep and today is being re-exhibited...
Egypt
Earthquake-damaged antiquities restored
Egypt State Information Service
Culture Minister: 198 antiquities renovated, restored in Cairo
Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni said on 9/2/2010 that 198 antiquities were renovated and restored from the 517 that were damaged during the 1992 earthquake in Cairo.
He added that the remaining antiquities will be restored, pointing to the cooperation between Antiquities Authority, Ministry of Endowments, Cairo Governorate to restore the Islamic antiquities in el-Mouez and el-Gamalia streets, which will be an open museum.
- Mameluke Makeover
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) As Muslims were celebrating the end of the holy month of Ramadan, Culture Minister Farouk Hosni and Minister of Endowments Hamdi Zaqzouq attended the official reopening of three restored Islamic buildings in Al-Saliba...
- Hosni Rejects Idea For A Jewish Museum In Egypt
State Information Service The Culture Ministry stressed that it will never permit any U.S Jewish or non U.S Jewish organization to set up a museum for Jewish antiquities in Egypt. Culture Minister Farouk Hosni, who met with a U.S Jewish...
- Le28m To Restore Coptic Museum
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/2/ President Hosni Mubarak is due to inaugurate the recently renovated Coptic Museum, part of the Religious Complex at Old Cairo, within the next few days. The Museum has been overhauled and restored by the Ministry...
- Kom Ombo - Sobek Temple And A New Museum
http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o100425v.htm "Culture Minister Farouk Hosni unveils next month the Sobek temple in Kom Ombo, which bas been restored at a cost of LE 15 million . . . Minister Hosni will also inaugurate a new museum displaying mummified...
- The Mummy Of Amenhotep
Here we have the newly restored mummy of a child named Amenhotep who's mummy was damaged during the robbery of the Cairo Museum in January of 2011. The looters who entered the museum via a skylight broke the head off Amenhotep and today is being re-exhibited...