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Antiquities
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Museums
10/10/2024 10:52:51 PM
Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly announced that the partial trial run of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) will begin on Wednesday 16 October, according to the directives of President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi.
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Life & Style
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Style
10/10/2024 12:35:15 PM
The theme of the next Met Gala and its celebrity chairs have been announced: Pharrell Williams, Lewis Hamilton, Colman Domingo, A$AP Rocky and LeBron James will help the museum launch an exhibit examining Black style in menswear over the centuries.
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
10/7/2024 8:49:24 PM
In a significant step towards preserving Egypt’s ancient heritage, the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Germany’s Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) to rediscover and protect valuable manuscripts and papyri housed in Egypt’s archaeological museums.
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Life & Style
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City Lights
10/7/2024 6:38:00 PM
The Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil Museum in Zamalek hosted a concert for the Moscow Conservatory students who performed on the banks of the Nile River as part of the Rising Stars project on 2 October.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Heritage
10/1/2024 11:24:37 PM
UNESCO and the Egyptian Museum in Cairo’s Tahrir Square are celebrating Egypt’s intangible cultural heritage, writes Nevine El-Aref
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Business
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Economy
9/29/2024 8:24:56 PM
The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) authority has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Schneider Electric, a global energy management and automation provider, to enhance technological solutions for sustainability.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
9/24/2024 5:53:39 PM
I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw a golden artefact, described as Pharaonic, for sale on the commercial website, eBay.
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Antiquities
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Museums
9/19/2024 5:40:32 PM
The Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities in collaboration with the US embassy in Cairo and the American Research Centre in Egypt (ARCE) has launched a Centralized Museum Repository Project to support the implementation of the ministry’s Central Information System: Data Rescue, Training and Needs Assessment Project.
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World
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War in Sudan
9/13/2024 3:33:40 PM
Sudan's priceless archaeological heritage is being stripped from museums, with looters loading statuettes and fragments of ancient palaces onto lorries, smuggling them out of the war-torn country, and selling them online.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Culture
9/13/2024 1:00:00 PM
Well known to specialists, but less familiar to the general public, Vienna’s ancient Egyptian Papyrus Museum should be part of every visit to the Austrian capital.
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Antiquities
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Coptic
9/7/2024 10:29:00 PM
The Coptic Museum in Cairo is hosting a special 30-day archaeological exhibition, 'The Saint Knight', in celebration of the Coptic New Year (1741 AM), which corresponds to 2024-2025 AD.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
9/3/2024 11:12:24 PM
The Mohamed Ali Tawfik Museum on the Manial Al-Roda Island in Cairo is receiving a facelift.
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Life & Style
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City Lights
8/24/2024 1:38:26 PM
The Embassy of the Czech Republic in Cairo has inaugurated a new exhibition titled Famous Czech Composers, in partnership with the Czech Centres and the National Museum of the Czech Republic.
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Egypt
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Tourism
8/21/2024 7:44:00 PM
22 additional locations have implemented the e-ticketing system, bringing the total number of e-ticketing-equipped sites and museums across the country to 100, as part of the country's ongoing digital transformation strategy in the tourism and antiquities sector.
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
8/15/2024 2:55:33 PM
"On Top of the Pyramid: The Civilization of Ancient Egypt" exhibition, currently on display at the Shanghai Museum in China, has attracted 136,000 visitors within the first two weeks since its opening at 19 July.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Heritage
8/13/2024 10:13:28 PM
The digital streams in the main galleries of the Grand Egyptian Museum offer visitors an exceptional journey through time, writes Nevine El-Aref
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Heritage
8/13/2024 10:10:58 PM
Instagram filters will soon be used to reconstruct ancient Egyptian artefacts at the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square and the National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation
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Sports
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Omni sports
8/7/2024 6:20:15 PM
Following Novak Djokovic's dramatic gold medal victory at the Paris Olympics, Serbia is set to build a museum dedicated to the tennis great, according to the country's president.
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
8/3/2024 7:29:10 PM
Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Sherif Fathy convened with representatives from META, the global technology giant, to discuss the progress of the Instagram Filters project.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Heritage
7/30/2024 4:52:22 PM
On Top of the Pyramid: Ancient Egyptian Civilisation exhibition is drawing massive crowds at the Shanghai National Museum in China, reports Nevine El-Aref
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