Today, the world is going through a state of panic after the outbreak of the new Corona virus, "Covid 19", due to the high number of injuries and deaths in various countries of the world, including Britain, where the number of infected people and deaths are increasing day by day, and the intensity of the fear is the arrival of the virus to the British government, and given For the emergency there, the King Tutankhamun exhibition that opened in November 2019 will be closed and will end in May this year 2020.
But the museum hosting the 150 Egyptian objects from Tutankhamun's tomb, 60 of which are traveling outside Egypt for the first time, which will return in May next to the permanent display inside the Grand Egyptian Museum, made a virtual visit on the museum’s official website, so that British citizens are not deprived of They visit it during the ban period there, so they can now visit the exhibition through the internet.
The exhibition includes 150 numbers with 166 artifacts, which are duplicate pieces of jewelry and statues of "Ashbti", and the return of the exhibition is 5 million dollars, in addition to the return of selling tickets after the number of visitors exceeded 700 thousand visitors, where he will return to the ministry on each ticket 4 dollars.
And the exhibition of Tutankhamen was a great success in France before being transferred to London, according to what the international newspapers said, as it was the most visited and viewed exhibition in France, with a number of registered visitors to date reaching 1,371,476 visitors, according to the last official census issued by the officials of the exhibition, Last September 4, the number can be increased as the exhibition continues until September 22.
French and international newspapers and news agencies have also made it clear that this exhibition and other temporary external exhibitions held by Egypt abroad are the best propaganda for Egypt and its ancient civilization and unique treasures, which has a positive impact on the movement of tourism coming to Egypt and its repetition.
Tue, Apr. 14, 2020
