Egypt
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref)
- More Re Unesco Assistance For Egypt
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) During a meeting held yesterday at the Supreme Council of Antiquities’ (SCA) offices, the director of UNESCO’s cultural department Tamara Twinasky announced UNESCO’s full collaboration with the SCA to restore and preserve...
- Unesco Director General Tours The Egytian Museum
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova inspected the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square to check the damage after it was robbed during the chaos of the January 25 Revolution. Guided by Tarek El-Awadi, director general of the...
- Us Delegation To Help Raise Funds For Giza’s Grand Museum
Al Masry Al Youm A US delegation on Tuesday said it would help raise funds to complete Egypt’s Grand Museum project in Giza and the Civilization Museum project in area of Fostat. During its visit to Cairo, the delegation also proposed requesting the...
- Unesco Visit To Egypt
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) Following favourable reports on Al Mary Al Youm and Ahram Online about UNESCO's visit to Egypt (22nd March), Hawass says that UNESCO was upset by the damage that he showed them at sites in northern Egypt. Following his...
- Resistance To The Recent Unesco Visit To Egypt
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref, 21st March) A little bit out of date now, but interesting. A UNESCO delegate is set to visit Egypt to help recuperate looted ancient artefacts post-revolution, but there is no Egyptian antiquities minister, and to boot...
Egypt
UNESCO delegation reassured after first day in Egypt
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref)
Yesterday, a UNESCO delegation led by Christian Manhart, chief of the Museums and Cultural Objects Section within UNESCO, embarked on a three-day tour of archaeological sites subject to looting during and since Egypt’s 25 January Revolution. The tour includes the Egyptian Museum as well as the Memphis necropolis, and covers the Giza plateau, Saqqara, Abusir and Dahshur archaeological sites.
The first place on the delegation's visit list was the Egyptian Museum. Following three hours of touring the museum’s exhibition halls and labs, the delegation's members expressed their satisfaction with what they saw.
“The status of the Egyptian Museum in totally different from what has been said in the media,“ director Tarek El-Awadi told Ahram Online Manhart had said while admiring the museum.
- More Re Unesco Assistance For Egypt
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) During a meeting held yesterday at the Supreme Council of Antiquities’ (SCA) offices, the director of UNESCO’s cultural department Tamara Twinasky announced UNESCO’s full collaboration with the SCA to restore and preserve...
- Unesco Director General Tours The Egytian Museum
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova inspected the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square to check the damage after it was robbed during the chaos of the January 25 Revolution. Guided by Tarek El-Awadi, director general of the...
- Us Delegation To Help Raise Funds For Giza’s Grand Museum
Al Masry Al Youm A US delegation on Tuesday said it would help raise funds to complete Egypt’s Grand Museum project in Giza and the Civilization Museum project in area of Fostat. During its visit to Cairo, the delegation also proposed requesting the...
- Unesco Visit To Egypt
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) Following favourable reports on Al Mary Al Youm and Ahram Online about UNESCO's visit to Egypt (22nd March), Hawass says that UNESCO was upset by the damage that he showed them at sites in northern Egypt. Following his...
- Resistance To The Recent Unesco Visit To Egypt
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref, 21st March) A little bit out of date now, but interesting. A UNESCO delegate is set to visit Egypt to help recuperate looted ancient artefacts post-revolution, but there is no Egyptian antiquities minister, and to boot...