The Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly, approved two draft presidential decisions concerning grants agreed between Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities and Korea National University of Heritage through South Korea’s ODA program.
The grants support a Digital Heritage Documentation Center in Cairo and capacity-building for sustainable cultural heritage tourism resources in Luxor.
Both projects fall under a memorandum signed during South Korea’s president’s January 2022 Egypt visit, covering cultural property conservation, underwater heritage, modern excavation technology and World Heritage site registration and management.
The first project establishes a digital documentation center at Prince Mohamed Ali Palace in Manial, creating a repository of Egyptian cultural heritage data, digital preservation and access to objects.
It will digitize approximately 36,000 artifacts in 2025, 121,500 in 2026 and 121,500 in 2027. Selected collections come from the Egyptian Museum, Coptic Museum, Museum of Islamic Art, Egyptian Antiquities Documentation Center in Zamalek, and archaeological studies and Islamic antiquities documentation centers at Manial Palace.
The second project strengthens conservation capacity and sustainable cultural tourism in Luxor, including restoration of the Ramesseum pylon, modern technology for Luxor Museum and a heritage conservation and tourism-resource development plan, according to the Egyptian Cabinet’s official Facebook page.
