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“Golden Mummies and Painted Funerary Art” in a Lecture at the BA

The BA Writing and Scripts Center organizes a lecture entitled “Golden Mummies, Painted Faces: Interpreting Greco-Roman Period Funerary Art and Inscriptions”, delivered by Professor Campbell Price, Curator of Egyptian and Sudanese Collections at Manchester Museum (the University of Manchester). The ...

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The BA Organizes “Reading and Analyzing Meroitic Inscriptions” Workshop in Aswan

The BA Writing and Scripts Center, in cooperation with the Nubian Museum in Aswan, organizes a workshop entitled “Reading and Analyzing Meroitic Inscriptions”, from 2-6 February 2019, at the Nubian Museum in Aswan. The workshop aims at training researchers in reading ancient writings and Meroitic ...

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The BA Ancient Egyptian Language Dictionary by Ahmed Pasha Kamal Wins ICCROM-Sharjah Commendation Award

ICCROM Regional Centre in Sharjah (ICCRIS) announced that the Bibliotheca Alexandrina has won a Commendation Award during the fourth edition of the ICCROM-Sharjah Award for Good Practices in Cultural Heritage Conservation and Management in the Arab Region (2023-2024) for the project "A Legacy of a ...

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The BA at "Innovation in the Tourism Industry in Light of Contemporary Global Changes" Conference

The Bibliotheca Alexandrina took part in the "Innovation in the Tourism Industry in Light of Contemporary Global Changes" conference, which was organized by the Faculty of Tourism and Hotels, Alexandria University, in New Alamein. The conference was inaugurated by Dr. Abdel Aziz Konsowa, President ...

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The BA Organizes "Hidden Glimpses of Selim Hassan's Life" Seminar

On the occasion of the selection of Dr. Selim Hassan as the personality of the 55 th Cairo International Book Fair, the Alexandria National Museum held on Saturday, 10 February 2024, a seminar entitled “Hidden Glimpses of the Life of Selim Hassan”, in collaboration with the BA Writing and Scripts ...

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