Foreign archaeological missions resume excavating Upper Egypt after 13-year ban | Cairo Post

This applies to new missions doing excavation. There are a quite a lot of old ones doing conservation, recording and restoration.



Foreign archaeological missions resume excavating Upper Egypt after 13-year ban | Cairo Post: For 13 years, the excavation permissions were limited only to Egyptian missions to explore treasures in Upper Egypt but due to the “successive requests from foreign Universities and researchers, the council agreed to give the licenses after 13 years of suspension,” Amin told Youm7 without going into further details on number of the foreign missions applied for the permits.