317 antiquities pieces to be displayed in Japan

State Information Service

Culture Minister Farouk Hosni approved the travel of an antiquities team to Japan to inaugurate the Egyptian monuments exhibition to be staged in the museum of the University of Asida, in the City of Sengoku on July 31, 2007 to last till September 9. The team is headed by Dr. Zahi Hawas Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities. Hawas said this is the sixth tour be Egyptian antiquities in the Japanese cities which started Mid-July last year and will last till the middle of the year 2008. The exhibition will include 317 pieces date back to various historical epochs. The exhibition is to tour ten Japanese cities till the year 2008. Egypt will receive one million pounds for that in two installments, he added.