[21/November/2009]

MAHWEET, Nov. 21 (Saba) - Practical steps have been taken to accelerate preparing and equipping the first regional mummy museum in Yemen.

The museum would be located in a historical building in al-Taweela city, dating back to the Ottomani era, the general manger of the Monuments and Museums Corporation in Mahweet Mohammed Ahmed Quassim has said.

He clarified that the current efforts exerted towards getting local and foreign sources to finance preparing and furnishing the museum which has been repaired and maintained in subsequently steps since 1997.

He affirmed the readiness of the museum since 2006 to show mummy samples which have been found in rock cemeteries aged more than
3000 years ago and provided with preservative substances as well as a lot of rare monuments related to the first man who lived in Arab Peninsula, which were found in the south-west of Mahweet and aged more than 85.000 years ago.

He pointed out that preparing this museum took more time than it
was decided because of the lack of funds, expecting the museum would be ready by 2010 .

Mahweet governor Ahmed Ali Mohsen held an executive meeting in which he discussed the reasons behind the delay of completing the project on time and the proposed solutions to accelerate its implementation. Mohsen asked the concerned authorities to prepare a special study on the required appliances and suggest the local and foreign sources that may fund the project.

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