Exhibition: The Gods's Gifts
Egypt

Exhibition: The Gods's Gifts


http://tinyurl.com/2jf4oz (sis.gov.eg)
"Prime Minister Dr. Nazif approved Egypt's participation in the Pharaonic Archeological Artifacts Exhibition The Gods' Gifts due to be held in the USA and Switzerland. The Exhibition starts its tour in New York in October 2007, and then in the Swiss city "Martini" in March 2008.
Minister of Culture, Farouk Hosney, announced that the exhibit will contain 150 artifacts displaying the Pharaonic civilization development. These pieces are from the Egyptian Museum's property and the rest from the museums of Europe and the USA, and they display the Ancient Egyptian Temple's treasures and which are made of bronze, silver and gold. The monuments will be insured at $ 7 million.
Dr. Zahi Hawas, the Secretary-General of the Higher Council of Antiquities, said that the Metropolitan museum will pay all the costs of holding the exhibit.
Dr. Wafaa' Al-Sedik, the head of the Egyptian Museum, affirmed that "Piere Gianda" Agency in Switzerland asked to host the mentioned pieces after the end of the Metropolitan exhibit. She added that the Swiss side will pay $ 70 million for holding the exhibition.
She also added that both the American and the Swiss sides will pay the costs of their transportation, the windows of display, filling and wrapping, opening the wrapping, rewrapping, transporting from Egypt to New York and from New York to Martini and from Martini to Cairo, and finally the insurance and guarding. In return, the Higher Council of Antiquities is not committed to pay any financial costs."
This is the complete news item on the State Information Service.




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