Over the last three years the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) earned LE186,372,860 from 18 exhibits sent abroad.   Within the framework of a new policy developed by the SCA for sending archaeological exhibitions abroad, Egypt earned a great deal of publicity value worldwide as well.

These exhibitions consist of selected artifacts that are distinguished but not unique, after ensuring the best security and safety measures to protect such objects.   The exhibits are designed to educate others about Ancient Egyptian history.   One such exhibit is "Tutankhamun and the Golden Beyond".   This exhibit consists of magnificent artifacts from the tomb of Tutankhamun, as well as others from the 18th Dynasty, known as the Golden Age of Ancient Egypt.   The exhibit travelled from the Cairo Museum to Basel, Switzerland, then to Bonn, Germany, and is now in Los Angeles, USA.   The exhibition will travel to three other states while on tour in America...

Newsreel: Exhibition Success, Al-Ahram, Egypt, Issue No. 750, 7 - 13 July 2005.

The Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany, have a new exhition coming up entitled Egypt-Greece-Rome: Resistance and contact (Ägypten-Griechenland-Rom: Abwehr und Berührung).

Since time immemorial, Ancient Egypt has captivated the imagination of the occident more vividly than any other culture.   In ancient times, the land of the Pharaohs was the crucial driving force behind the development of large sculptures and stone architecture, and even today a special aura still surrounds Egyptian illustrations and characters.   Even in classical antiquity, the Egyptian religion and metaphorical language were perceived as particularly strange, but they were also credited with a secret, unfathomable wisdom.   The fact that this ability to impress increased beyond their demise to proportions sometimes tantamount to Egyptomania is testimony to the Egyptian culture, or rather the way it was interpreted in Greece and Rome...

Staedel Museum: Forthcoming Exhibitions, Städel Museum, Germany, via Archaeo-News-Blog.