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Egypt’s Minister of Tourism and Antiquities The Egyptian minister met with Greek Tourism Minister Harry Theoharis in Cairo and discussed the industry’s restart and explored ways of future cooperation, with a focus on the cruise sector. “Our discussion was very productive and it allows us to cooperate in the opening of tourism and I am very pleased as the Minister Khalid El Anani praised the restart plan for Greek tourism, which has common areas with the resumption of tourism in Egypt,” Theoharis said. The Greek tourism minister was in Cairo over the weekend to attend the Pharaohs’...

Published date: 5 April 2021 20:46 UTC | Last update: 26 sec ago In a resplendent ceremony watched by hundreds of millions of people worldwide, Egypt transported 22 ancient mummies through Cairo to a new national museum on Sunday, in what was called the Golden Parade.  The 18 kings and four queens were moved from the Egyptian Museum in central Cairo, where they had been exhibited since the early 1900s, to a new museum six kilometres to the south, the National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation, a vast new facility located in Fustat, Islamic Egypt's fi...

The National Museum of Egyptian Civilization has been fully opened to the public. The facility was opened just a day after a procession of floats carried the mummified remains of 22 pharaohs through the capital to their new resting place at the museum. Asmaa Said is curator at the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (NMEC) "Why it is called the civilisation museum is because the most important thing here is the concept of civilisation, not a specific time or era. Every showcase tells a story or a different concept of civilisation. We connect all civilisations here." The National Museum o...

Updated: 05/04/2021 Visitors browse exhibits at Egypt's new National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation (NMEC) in the Fustat district of Old Cairo, after the museum opened fully to the public, the day after a procession of floats carried the mummified remains of 22 pharaohs passed through the capital to their new resting place at the museum.

Curse or no curse, Cairo's mummy parade goes smoothly Cairo's procession of royal mummies roused national pride among Egyptians, though observers warned that disturbing the dead may have unleashed the "curse of the pharaohs." KHALED DESOUKI/AFP via Getty Images April 5, 2021 All was pomp and pageantry as 22 royal mummies — 18 kings and four queens — paraded through the streets of Cairo on the evening of April 3 to their final resting place at the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, located where the ancient capital of El Fustat once stood in Old Cairo overlooking Ain El ...