Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism &Antiquities organizes specialized training course for archaeological pottery in cooperation with Polish Institute

 

 CAIRO - 9 April 2021: A specialized training course for archaeological pottery began for a week at Cairo and Giza Training Centers in Saqqara of the Central Training Unit at the Office of the Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, as this course came in cooperation between the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities represented by the Central Training Unit in the Minister’s Office and the Polish Institute of Antiquities in Egypt to organize workshops for archaeologists who work in the ministry.

 

 Dr. Bassem Gehad, the supervisor of the Central Training Unit at the Minister's Office, indicated that this course aims to raise the efficiency of archaeologists working in the ministry and to create cadres in specializations such as archaeological pottery, as a part of the ministry's plan to raise the efficiency of its workers, museums and archaeological sites nationwide.

 

 He added that in this session, Prof. Dr. Anya Vodenska, Director of the Polish Institute and a specialist in the field of pottery, lectures students on how to study and date archaeological pottery.

 

 It is noteworthy that the first workshop was held in cooperation between the Ministry and the Polish Institute of Archeology in Egypt on the Nakhloun archaeological site for inspectors of Islamic and Coptic antiquities, researchers in biological archeology, and restoration specialists in the governorates of "Cairo, Giza, Fayoum and Beni Suef", under the title "Results of archaeological work and study of archaeological materials at the Nakhloun site in Fayoum”, through the institute's excavation mission operating at Nakhloun site.