Preservation of Egyptian monuments

Collection title

Collection Bibliotheca Alexandrina

ID

BIB00086

Source

Bibliotheca Alexandrina (EG)

First broadcast date

01/21/2006

Production year

2006

Abstract

Zahi Hawass, an Egyptian archaelogist (egyptologist) and also Egypt's Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs, talks about the preservation of Egypt monuments and the improvments realized by Ismail Serageldin in different cultural activities, especially in preservation, at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Zahi Hawass also worked on archaelogical sites in the Nile Delta, the Western Desert and the Upper Nile Valley. He adds Alexandria is a city which attracts a lot of people from diverse countries thanks to its patrimony, theater of conservation politics, restoration programs and of construction of cultural buildings like museum.

Type

video

Production companies

• Bibliotheca Alexandrina - Own production

Broadcaster

Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Audiovisual form

Conference

Personalities

• Hawass Zahi

Primary theme

Antiquity

Credits / Cast

• Hawass Zahi - Speaker

Period of events

• 2006

Map locations

• Egypt - Lower Egypt - Alexandria

Original language

English

Media running time

12m22