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DUBAI: Google Arts & Culture has launched a digital exhibit by the Barakat Trust about the Gaza strip in Palestine. The project, which is Barakat Trust’s inaugural collection on Google Arts & Culture, aims to help more people around the world learn about Palestinian culture and heritage. The charity organization, which focuses on the Islamic world’s education and heritage,

SHARE If you fancy a tour of an Egyptian tomb or a visit to a Mamluk mosque, its now possible from the comfort of your own home. A new digital platform titled Preserving Egypts Layered History has launched online, thanks to the Google Arts and Culture organisation and its collaboration with the American Research Centre in Cairo. The project brings together a rich collection of videos, stories and tours, from the worlds oldest Coptic monastery to exploring Egypts Jewish cemeteries. The site al...

Fascinating faces: two brother mummies dated to about 1800 BC, in Manchester Museum Today I’ve spent my morning exploring Egypt. I started with a tour of the tomb of Menna, a farm overseer who lived over 3,500 years ago in Luxor’s West Bank. After that I nipped over to Alexandria to visit the 4-7th Century BCE Roman ruins, before rounding out my tour in a 14th Century mosque in Cairo.  As you’ve probably guessed by this point, this wasn’t a physical tour of Egypt, but a virtual one. Qu...