The archaeological exhibition "Gifts and a Story" at the Coptic Museum to celebrate the New Year's Day and Christmas

Under the title “Gifts and a Story,” the Coptic Museum celebrated New Year’s Eve and Christmas with the opening of a temporary archaeological exhibition, to shed light on the custom of giving gifts and celebrating newborns.

Professor Jihan Atef, Director General of the Museum, explained that the exhibition includes 12 distinctive artifacts from the antiquities in the museum, and is scheduled to continue for a month, referring to the most prominent pieces in the exhibition; It is a manuscript in Arabic representing the birth of Christ and the visit of the Magi to him, a bronze cross on which scenes from the life of Christ were painted, such as the Annunciation and the Nativity, and a gold pendant on which was painted the angel’s annunciation to the Virgin Mary of the birth of the Lord Christ, and an icon depicting Christ wearing the episcopal robe as a high priest, and another of St. Nicholas Better known as Santa Claus (Santa Claus).

On the sidelines of the exhibition, the scientific department of the museum organized a lecture entitled “Incense (the wisdom of the ancients): Evaluation of the efficiency of incense as a resistor and treatment of air microbes” given by Ms. Dalia Nabawi, responsible for the restoration department at the Capitals of Egypt Museum, in addition to organizing a workshop for making incense using aromatic plants grown in the museum’s garden, and a group Educational and artistic workshops for children.