Antiquities Minister Khaled al-Anany and Luxor governor Mohamed Badr inaugurated on Friday the first center for cloning the tombs of Pharaonic kings and queens. The officials inaugurated as well the Stoppelaere House near the Valley of the Kings, west of Luxor. The Ambassador of Switzerland to Egypt, Markus Leitner, attended the inauguration. An archaeological Egyptian source told DPA agency that the project was held in collaboration with the Spanish and Swiss governments and aims to train Egyptians on the uses of the three-dimentional survey and compound photography which are used in cloning pharaonic tombs such as King Tutankhamun's cloned tomb, which was constructed by Spanish Factum Arte Foundation. The two original archaeological tombs are periodically closed to protect their inscriptions.

Source: Egypt Independent February 17, 2017 15:56 UTC