Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities organizes virtual visits to unique archaeological sites – Egypttoday

Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities organizes virtual visits to unique archaeological sites – Egypttoday

Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities organizes virtual visits to unique archaeological sites. CAIRO - 3 April 2020: Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, in cooperation with its partners from scientific and archaeological institutes launches a service to visit some of the archaeological sites through the official pages of the Ministry on the Internet and social media by publishing a number of virtual visits to them or an explanation of some museums provided by a number of Egyptian tour guides.. On April 3, Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities in cooperation with the American Research Center in Egypt, is launching the first virtual visits to the Menna tomb, which is one of the most beautiful tombs of the nobles in the western mainland in Luxor, which dates back to the Eighteenth Dynasty.. The multiple visits to the tomb over a long period of time and deteriorating environmental conditions had negatively effected the painted interior of the tomb.. In the first phase, the tomb and its environs were surveyed to create the first exact plan of the chapel and its surroundings.. The second phase joined high-resolution digital images with an extensive net of measured points taken inside of the tomb