PREPARATION OF 1ST REGIONAL MUMMY MUSEUM UNDERWAY IN YEMEN

MAHWEET, Nov. 21 (Saba) - Practical steps have been taken to
accelerate preparing and equipping the first regional mummy museum
in Yemen.

The museum would be located in a historical building in al-Taweela
city, dating back to the Ottomani era, the general manger of the
Monuments and Museums Corporation in Mahweet Mohammed Ahmed Quassim
has said.

He clarified that the current efforts exerted towards getting local
and foreign sources to finance preparing and furnishing the museum
which has been repaired and maintained in subsequently steps since
1997.

He affirmed the readiness of the museum since 2006 to show mummy
samples which have been found in rock cemeteries aged more than 3000
years ago and provided with preservative substances as well as a lot
of rare monuments related to the first man who lived in Arab
Peninsula, which were found in the south-west of Mahweet and aged
more than 85.000 years ago.

He pointed out that preparing this museum took more time than it
was decided because of the lack of funds, expecting the museum would
be ready by 2010 .

Mahweet governor Ahmed Ali Mohsen held an executive meeting in
which he discussed the reasons behind the delay of completing the
project on time and the proposed solutions to accelerate its
implementation. Mohsen asked the concerned authorities to prepare a
special study on the required appliances and suggest the local and
foreign sources that may fund the project.

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