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The National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (NMEC) in Fustat has received the United Cars and Motorcycles team from Saudi Arabia and the Egyptian Mega team from the Ministry of Youth and Sports.

The two teams are participating in the International Sports Exhibition “Expo sports 2023”, which is hosted by Egypt from 26 December to 8 January.

The delegation included 50 motorcycle driving professionals from Egypt and Saudi Arabia, where they toured the various halls of the museum. During the tour, the team members expressed their keenness to visit the museum while they were in Egypt to participate in this sporting event, and praised the magnificence of the museum and its holdings. They were also keen to record their visit by taking memorial photos to commemorate this visit, pointing out that they will publish them on their accounts on their social media platforms to express their pride in the Egyptian civilization and this great edifice.

Ahmed Ghoneim, CEO of the NMEC, said that the visit came as part of the state’s keenness to benefit from the events that are organized or hosted in Egypt to promote the Egyptian tourist destination, by organizing visits for official delegations to many tourist and archaeological places in Egypt to enrich their visit by introducing them to them, and introducing them to the ancient Egyptian civilization.

Fayrouz Fikry, Vice President of the NMEC, said that the museum is always keen to shed light on its mission and role in communicating with society in all its categories and events, hosting official delegations and introducing them to the Egyptian civilization, and how it left behind the greatest human heritage, which is the Egyptian antiquities in its various eras.

Egypt is hosting the global sports exhibition in the Middle East and Africa, “Expo sports 2023”, as part of the Red Sea Festival, which will include a motorcycle tour, which comes within the framework of spreading a new style of sports tourism, “road tourism”, to take advantage of the huge construction revolution of roads. New in Egypt, which holds a message to the world about Egypt’s diversity of sports and different types of tourism.

Source: Daily News