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.

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