PARIS, July 21 (Saba)- André Le Prat, responsible of restoring workshop at Louvre Museum, Department of Arts graphics started on Monday a visit to Yemen.

It is scheduled that Le Prat would pay a visit to the Zabid historical city to evaluate needs of training and materials to restore manuscripts in the libraries and setting up a restoring workshop in the city.

The visit comes within the program of preserving manuscripts of the city which is carried out by the French Institute for the Antiquities and Social Science.

During his visit, Le Prat will launch the third phase in the program that was started in 2000.

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