Minister appropriates LE 3 million to refurbish tomb

Culture Minister Farouk Hosni, who is also chief of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), appropriated L.E. 3 million to refurbish the Ban-Hsi tomb at Ain Shams to be the first open museum of Pharaonic antiquities in Cairo after finishing a project to dismantle and re-install the tomb that was unearthed in 1987.

The tomb is of Ban-Hsi, the bearer of seals of Lower Egypt during the 26th Dynasty era, said Zahi Hawas, Cairo and Giza Antiquities Director.

The area stands over 10 feddans and includes several Pharaonic and Roman archaeological sites, said Hawas.