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In pictures: Egyptian Museum celebrates World Tourism Day

Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities honours World Tourism day and Egyptology’s 200th anniversary as a science, with a temporary exhibition at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

September 28, 2022
28 September 2022

We take a tour of the antiquities and artefacts on display as part of a new exhibition at the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, to mark World Tourism Day and the 200th anniversary of the creation of the field of Egyptology.

The golden mask of King Tutankhamun. AP Photo/Amr Nabil

Pharaonic artefacts on display at the Egyptian Museum

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