Thursday, November 03, 2005

Grand Egyptian Museum

http://tinyurl.com/9bm52
"Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni said that the first two sites in the Grand Egyptian Museum which the ministry establishes at Cairo, Alexandria desert road will be inaugurated early next year. The two sites are the power station and the World Center of Restoration, which represent the beginning of the giant museum which is considered the largest in the entire world. The museum will be built on an area of 117 feddans, and will embrace more that 100,000 pieces of antiquities that tell the various stages of Pharaonic civilization. The museum will be implemented over the coming five years, and will provide more than 3000 job opportunities to the distinguished graduates. The Minister added that President Hosni Mubarak follows up the various steps of the project by the contributes effectively in surmounting any difficulties or obstacles that delay the construction of the museum. The museum would be the greatest cultural world project in the current century".
This is the complete posting on the SIS website.

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