Minister of Antiquities, Mamdouh Damati announced Tuesday that the ministry will organize three archeological exhibitions and photography galleries in cities of Cairo, Suez and Ismailia, in celebration of inaugurating the new Suez Canal. These events will display the history of Egypt while drilling the first channel in the sixties of the nineteenth century, Al Bawaba News reported. Ismailia museum, which was the first regional museum created in Egypt, will display a range of artifacts discovered by French missions during the drilling of the Suez Canal between 1859 and 1869 during the drilling of the channel. The Egyptian Museum in Cairo will display photographs of ten archaeological sites on both sides of the channel, which illustrate Egypt's ancient military history, including castles, forts and cities on ‘Horus war road' that was founded in the Middle age Kingdom. Meanwhile, Suez Museum will display archaeological exhibition and photography galleries that tells the story of the creation of ‘Sisostris' canal, which is the first canal in history linking the Nile river with the Red Sea in ancient Egypt during the era of King Senusret III.
