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 Valorization of the artistic heritage of Fayoum and Saqqara

Medinet MadiGeographic Area: Fayoum and Cairo 

Area of Development: Control and sustainable management of the environmental, artistic and cultural heritage

Sector: Environmental sustainability, conservation and restoration

Executive body: DGCS

Institutional counterpart: Ministry of Culture – Supreme Council of Antiquities

SaqqaraOther funding parties:

Beneficiaries: Cultural and artistic heritage, local communities

Period of implementation: 2003 - 2006 

Amount and nature of the funds: 3,500,000 € grant through the debt swap and bilateral channel

Type of intervention: Technical assistance, capacity building, training

Objective:

Management and monitoring of the cultural and artistic heritage

Description of the project:

The project resumes the work of the First Phase in the archaeological site of Saqqara and proposes a new intervention in the area of Fayoum. It includes an important component of training aiming at the consolidation of the operative capacities of the personnel of the Supreme Council of Antiquities in the field of conservation and valorization of the cultural and artistic heritage of both sites.

Is a component of the Second Phase of the Environmental Program.