Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities plan closer professional cooperation
Press release from 02/28/2013
The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the Egyptian Ministry of State for Antiquities as well as the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities have decided to co-operate more closely in future. Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, and Mohamed Ibrahim Ali, Minister of State for Antiquities of the Arab Republic of Egypt, signed a memorandum of understanding to this effect today.
Parzinger said: "This declaration of intent is based on the positive and friendly relations that have developed between the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the Egyptian antiquities authorities. It reaffirms the trusting cooperation that has been practised at specialist level for some time."
The aim of the Memorandum of Understanding is, among other things, to cooperate on the completion of the "Amarna Akhenaten Museum" in Minya. Other German partners are also involved, such as the city of Hildesheim and the Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum there. Both have been supporting the project in Minja since 1989, and as part of the future collaboration, the finds from the German Oriental Society's excavations, which are located in both Germany and Egypt, are also to be analysed. There are also plans for cooperation and the exchange of scientists and conservators for the purpose of training and further education and cooperation for the preservation of cultural heritage.