Alexandria's Graeco-Roman Museum reopens

RENOVATION: Renowned Graeco-Roman Museum in Alexandria has finally reopened. The renowned Graeco-Roman Museum in Alexandria has finally reopened its doors after almost two decades of a long and meticulous restoration and rehabilitation process. (Nevine El-Aref, Ahram online).

The Graeco-Roman Museum, built in 1892, was inaugurated by Khedive Abbas Helmy II in 1895 to display Greaco-Roman artefacts discovered at archaeological sites in Alexandria.

It was registered on Egypt’s heritage list for Islamic, Coptic, and Jewish antiquities in 1983.

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