ARMENIAN ARCHEOLOGISTS AT TEMPLE OF AMENHOTEP III
news.am
May 7 2010
Armenia
RA Ambassador to Egypt Armen Melkonyan held a meeting with Dr. Zahi
Hawass, Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of
Antiquities.
The press service of the RA Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed
NEWS.am that Dr. Zahi Hawass expressed his appreciation of the role
specialists of the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography and of
the Institute of Geology, RA Academy of Sciences, played in the
excavations at the Temple of Amenhotep III in Luxor. He also thanked
the Egyptian-Armenian specialists, the Egyptologist Gurik Suruzian
and architect and restorer Nairi Ambikian for their contribution to
research in Egypt.
The sides reached an agreement on further Armenian-Egyptian cooperation
in archeology.