Dr. Abdel Hamid Kafafi, Director General of Planning and Follow-up at the Ministry of Antiquities, said that the restoration of 90% of the plan to revive the ancient city of Shali in the oasis of Siwa has been completed from the village buildings and its old streets.
The director general of planning and follow-up at the Ministry of Antiquities, in special statements to the "seventh day", that the walls are being restored with the same materials, consisting of archive stone falling from houses, as Shali and all the effects of the city of Siwa archive stones, a salt stones mixed with mud.
Abdul Hamid Al-Kafafi added that the city is being restored to its original status as before, and show the architectural and planning character of houses and the city as a whole, as the old streets have been opened, pointing out that the city of Shali is scheduled to open next year 2020.
Shali is the city and the ancient castle in the heart of the oasis of Siwa in the Libyan desert in Egypt, one of the most famous historical landmarks, and the history of the old city dating back thousands of years BC, where it contains the temple of Amun, which was established by the ancient Egyptians, then came the largest Iskander to that temple upon entering Egypt To worship there and declare himself the son of Amon, so as to know the importance of that God to both Egyptians, and Greeks. He even recommended that he be buried there, although it was never known whether it had already been done.
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