Egyptian Museum Listed as UNESCO world heritage site

Egyptian Museum of Antiquities has been officially added to the UNESCO Tentative List of the World Heritage Sites, according to the Al-Ahram newspaper.

According to the UNESCO website, the Egyptian Museum still includes all elements needed to express its exceptional value as a remarkable and original building.

On this basis, the members of the international committee unanimously have accepted Egypt's application.

It's been one and half years since the national museum was proposed as a nomination to become a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

For his part, Mohamed Badry, an Egyptian researcher in management and marketing of heritage sites and sustainable cultural tourism, told the Middle East news agency that the aim of the world cultural heritage application is to present Egyptian history through the Egyptian Museum.

In the same context, Egypt's President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi highlighted efforts to modernise legislation regulating the antiquities sector in Egypt to protect Egyptian antiquities and attractions and also make sure they are shown to the world in the best form that befits Egyptian civilisation, according to Badry.

It's worth mentioning that the iconic museum in Tahrir Square is a unique building designed to host the world's oldest collection of Pharaonic art and monuments.

Built-in 1901 by the Italian construction company, Garozzo-Zaffarani, to a design by the French architect Marcel Dourgnon, the national edifice is one of the largest museums in the Middle East.