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Thursday, March 16, 2023

The Queen of Belgium on her visit to Luxor

Queen Matilda Queen Belgium on its visit to Luxor in the context of the 100th anniversary of the visit of Queen Elizabeth Queen Belgium and its son, Crown Prince Leopold to Egypt to attend the official opening of the Golden King Tut Ankh Amun in February 1923.
On the sidelines of her current visit to Egypt, Her Majesty Queen Matilda of Belgium and Her Royal Highness Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant, Belgium, were keen to visit a number of monuments in Luxor Governorate, where they were accompanied by Dr. Zahi Hawass, an Egyptian archaeologist and former Minister of Antiquities, on a tour.  

The work of the Belgian missions in the Cape, Deir el-Medina, and the tombs of the nobles, in addition to the tomb of King Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings, where Dr. Mustafa, the Egyptian Prime Minister, explained the history of the tomb and the story of its discovery by archaeologist Howard Carter in 1923, which Queen Elizabeth participated in its official opening.  Presenting a souvenir to the Queen of Belgium to commemorate her visit to Egypt, which is a papyrus containing scenes of Queen Nefertari and Tutankhamun

 It should be noted that Her Majesty Queen Matilda of Belgium, and Her Royal Highness Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant, Belgium, participated yesterday in the opening of a temporary photographic exhibition at Baron Empain's Palace under the title "1923-2023: Queen Elizabeth of Belgium - in Egypt", on "Journey".  Queen Elizabeth of Belgium - in Egypt" as part of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the visit of Queen Elizabeth of Belgium and her son, Crown Prince Leopold, to Egypt to attend the official opening of the tomb of the golden king Tutankhamun in February 1923.

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