CAIRO – 4 October 2021: Egypt’s Giza Pyramids and the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir received some of the members of the Union for the Mediterranean. These visits came on the sidelines of their current visit to Egypt to attend the second Ministerial Conference for the Environment of the Mediterranean region. Director General of the Pyramid Antiquities AreaAshraf Mohieddin received the members in the Giza Antiquities Area, and accompanied them on a tour to the three pyramids, the Sphinx and the Panorama areas. They expressed their fascination with the ancient Egyptian civilization, the greatness of the Pyramids, and the miraculous carving of the Great Sphinx. Two of the secretariat of the conference visited the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir, where they were received by Sabah Abdel Razek, the director of the museum, and Ahmed Samir, the curator of the Egyptian Museum, and toured the museum's various halls.

Source: Egypt Today October 04, 2021 13:07 UTC