{"id":736115,"date":"2012-07-12T08:24:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T13:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=e389ab91a5206ec1896cfb5c34e34796"},"modified":"2012-07-12T08:46:46","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T13:46:46","slug":"new-antiquities-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/736115","title":{"rendered":"New antiquities project"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\" trbidi=\"on\"><a href=\"http:\/\/213.158.162.45\/~egyptian\/index.php?action=news&amp;id=26640&amp;title=New%20antiquities%20project\" >Egyptian Gazette<\/a> (Amina Abdul Salam) &nbsp;&nbsp; <br \/><br \/><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><blockquote class=\"tr_bq\">A number of archaeologists have launched a project to develop archaeology in Egypt to be carried out by the new government, according to MENA. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br \/><br \/>The project, which was launched under the title, \u2018Egyptian Antiquities\u2019 Renaissance Project \u2018 includes a plan to develop archaeology to occupy a prestigious position as one of the state\u2019s main economic sources, said Mohamed Abdel- Maqsoud ,deputy chairman of the Egyptian antiquities sector.<br \/><br \/>The project aims at changing the technique of work in this field that should&nbsp; controlled&nbsp; by a specialised&nbsp; state security body to protect Egypt\u2019 monuments and archaeological heritage .<br \/><br \/>Abdel-Maqsoud noted that the antiquities sector is facing financial problems due to the reduced number of tourists visiting Egypt&nbsp; during the last couple of years. The archaeologists have called for cultural tourism&nbsp; to be mainly based mainly on visiting monumental sites throughout Egypt.<br \/><br \/>It is know the antiquities sector is self -financing , says Abdel -Maqsoud, adding that the annual revenues of the monuments normally reaches to LE1.2 billion&nbsp; nearly($200 million) annually. <\/blockquote><\/div><br \/><\/div><div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egyptian Gazette (Amina Abdul Salam) &nbsp;&nbsp; A number of archaeologists have launched a project to develop archaeology in Egypt to be carried out by the new government, according to MENA. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The project, which was launched under the title, \u2018Egyptian Antiquities\u2019 Renaissance Project \u2018 includes a plan to develop archaeology to occupy a prestigious position [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-35uP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}