The archaeological department in the Ministry of Antiquities recorded important achievements throughout 2018 and 2109. They restored many pyramids and mosques throughout the country.
“SEE” get through achievements at the field of antiquities.
- Al Abassy Mosque was reopened again after restoration on August 3, 2018.
- President Abdel Fatah El Sisi opened Sohag National Museum on August 12, 2018.
- Construction of that museum lasted for 25 years.
-Muhu’s Tomb was opened on September 8 for the first time since its discovering in 1940.
Archaeologists completed restoration of two obelisks, columns and statues in Tanis (San El Hager), Sharqia on September 15, 2018.
- Two obelisks were transferred to the City of Culture and Arts in the New Administrative Capital on January 2018.
- Experts succeeded in reducing ground water under Kom Al Shoqafah archeological site in Alexandria in cooperation with The USAID Mon March 3.
- On the same day experts completed restoration of tombs of Al Wardyan cemetery in Alexandria on March 3, 2018.
- Archaeologists re-erected again a statue of King Ramesses II at the archeological site in Sohag Governorate on April 5, 2019.
- They also restored and re-erected another statue of the same king at the first section of Luxor temple on April 18, 2019.
Also on the same day the Ministry of Antiquities decided to open Ipt Temple in Luxor on April 19.
- Experts restored Mosque of Fatima Al Shaqra (Fatima the blond) at Al Dharb Al Ahmar (the Red Quarter) in Cairo on May 2, 2019.
- A joint mission of the Ministry of Antiquities and Tubingen University, Germany, discovered a collection of burial chambers and a workshop of embalming south to Unas Pyramid at Saqqara, Giza.
- Another joint mission of the ministry and the French Institute for Antiquities succeeded in discovering one of the oldest villages in the Delta at Tel Al Samara on September 2.
- That village dated back the Modern Stone Age.
- A mission of Ain Shams discovered the gallery of ceremonies of King Ramesses II at Arab El Hossn area, Mattarya in the north of Cairo on October 25.
- A joint mission the French Institute of the Eastern Antiquities and Liverpool University, UK discovered the method used by the ancient Egyptian to move the hugs mass stones from the alabaster quarries of Amarna in Mynia Governorate.
- A joint mission of the Ministry of Antiquities and Lund University, Sweden, discovered the main Nile port at Gabal Al Selslah in Aswan on March 26, 2019. The port was used in Ancient Egypt to transfer stones.
- A mission of New York University, USA, discovered the foyer of King Ramesses II palace, remains of construction and consecration at Apedos in Sohag Governorate, on March 28.
- A mission of the ministry discovered at Tel Kedwaha in north Sinai Peninsula, remnants of fortresses build ob brick mud dated back to the 6th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt on May 13, 2019.
-Also another mission of the ministry discovered remnants of a fortress and d residential building dated back to King Ramesses II on June 10.
An archaeological team affiliated to the Ministry of Antiquities discovered a stone tomb south to Lahun Pyramid in Fayyum on June 28.
Contributed by Ahmed Moamar
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