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The BA Signs a Cooperation Agreement with Korea’s National Hangeul Museum

The Bibliotheca Alexandrina witnessed this morning the signing ceremony of a cooperation agreement with South Korea's National Hangeul Museum. The agreement was signed by Dr. Sherif Riad, Head of the BA External Relations and Media Sector, on behalf of Dr. Ahmed Zayed, Director of the BA, ...

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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 Second International Seminar on Arabic and Islamic Inscriptions

The BA Writing and Scripts Center and the Center for Islamic Civilization Studies, in cooperation with the Institut français d'archéologie orientale (IFAO) and the Faculty of Archeology at Ain Shams University, are organizing the Second International Seminar on Arabic and Islamic Inscriptions, on ...

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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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