Nour El-Tigani – Egyptianstreets The King Tutankhamun exhibition at Paris’s Grande Halle La Villette broke the record as the most visited cultural event this year, with a turnout of more than 1.37 million visitors, according to Egypt’s Ambassador to Paris and its permanent representative to UNESCO, Ehab Badawi. Badawi added that …
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Anany inaugurates Tutankhamen exhibition in Paris
Angy Essam –Egypt Today Egyptian minister of Antiquities Khaled Anany inaugurated the temporary exhibition “King Tut: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh” in Paris along with the French minister of Culture, the famed Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass and Egyptian ambassador in Paris Ihab Badawy. Anany expressed his great happiness inaugurating …
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Two Paris exhibitions are drawing attention to the destruction that is threatening the heritage of the Arab world, writes David Tresilian David Tresilian The destruction of the cultural heritage of the Arab world has been almost unparalleled in recent years. Half the Old City of Mosul in Iraq and …
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