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Antiquities
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Museums
5/18/2023 11:55:49 PM
The Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), the Museums Sector, and the National Committee for Egyptian Museums (ICOM Egypt) commemorate International Museum Day at the Manial Palace with a forum themed "Museums, Sustainability, and Quality of Life."
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Egypt
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Tourism
5/15/2023 4:37:28 PM
Serbia's national carrier Air Serbia resumed on Monday direct flights between Belgrade and Cairo following a three-year hiatus due to COVID-19, Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced on Facebook.
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Egypt
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Tourism
5/13/2023 10:34:50 AM
Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has announced the upcoming opening of Hyatt Centric Cairo West, which will be the country's first art hotel.
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
5/8/2023 3:02:52 PM
Four ancient Egyptian artefacts that were illegally smuggled to Italy have found their way home. The artefacts were handed over to the Egyptian Embassy in Rome some time ago and the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities in Egypt received them from the foreign ministry Monday.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
5/2/2023 9:20:36 PM
The Netflix docudrama on the ancient Egyptian queen Cleopatra is a clear case of ideologically motivated cultural appropriation, writes Ioannis E Kotoulas
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Antiquities
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Greco-Roman
4/26/2023 8:33:27 PM
A newly discovered marble statue of the Buddha at a temple in Berenike on the red sea shows a connection between Egypt and India during the Roman Empire.
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Egypt
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Society
4/18/2023 8:45:54 PM
Netflix's upcoming historical documentary miniseries, Queen Cleopatra, has drawn criticism from Egyptians with former Minister of Antiquities Zahi Hawass criticising the series for providing inaccurate information about ancient Egypt.
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Egypt
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Tourism
4/18/2023 2:50:14 PM
The Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has extended opening and closing hours of the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir and the Giza Plateau starting Eid.
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
4/12/2023 1:17:51 PM
An archaeological mission from the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden (RMO) and the Egyptian Museum in Turin (Museo Egizio) uncovered the remains of Panehsy's tomb, the steward of Amun Temple in the early Ramesside period, along with a collection of smaller chapels in the Saqqara Necropolis.
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Egypt
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Tourism
4/5/2023 11:01:16 PM
Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Ahmed Issa discussed on Tuesday with Chinese officials plans to increase direct air flights between the two countries, amid plans to receive more tourists from China in coming years.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
4/5/2023 5:55:00 PM
Egypt has nominated former minister of tourism and antiquities Khaled El-Enany for the post of director-general of the United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). The election will take place during the last quarter of 2025.
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Business
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Economy
3/28/2023 2:16:56 PM
The Sovereign Fund of Egypt (TSFE) announced on Tuesday that its real-estate subfund – TSFE Tourism, Real Estate & Antiquities – has signed a development agreement with A Developments to repurpose the former headquarters of Egypt’s Ministry of Interior in downtown Cairo.
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Egypt
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Tourism
3/16/2023 1:19:30 PM
Egypt received 11.7 million tourists in 2022, up from eight million in 2021, marking a 46.2 percent increase, said Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Ahmed Issa on Wednesday.
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
3/3/2023 2:27:00 PM
Egypt's Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Ahmed Issa unveiled in a press conference at the Giza Plateau that a corridor has been discovered inside Giza’s Khufu Pyramid.
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Business
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Economy
3/1/2023 4:13:46 PM
Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has imposed new fees on hotels, coffee shops, tourism operators, restaurants, and bazaars to be paid for the Tourism and Antiquities Support Fund, according to the ministry’s decision published in the Official Gazette on Tuesday.
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Antiquities
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Islamic
2/27/2023 10:13:15 PM
Both ministers of Tourism and Antiquities and Endowments, along with Cairo governor, inaugurated Monday evening the Al-Hakim Bi Amr Allah mosque after the completion of restoration.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
2/24/2023 7:02:00 PM
The project to transform the Egyptian Museum in Cairo’s Tahrir Square has now been completed.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
2/21/2023 11:11:00 PM
A concert by the Swiss DJ duo Adriatique in the vicinity of the Hatshepsut Temple on the west bank of the Nile at Luxor has sparked much debate.
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
2/18/2023 3:43:38 PM
Egypt’s Public Prosecution issued an arrest warrant on Friday for a group of suspects who created a fake tomb in the Upper Egypt governorate of Beni Suef for the purpose of defrauding would-be antiquities traffickers.
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
2/17/2023 1:51:43 PM
Egypt’s Court of Cassation accepted on Thursday the appeal of Boutros Raouf Ghaly on his 15 years prison sentence, reducing it to five years in prison and a EGP 1 million fine for smuggling antiquities to Italy in a case that goes back to 2018.
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