{"id":205375,"date":"2025-08-24T10:13:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T08:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-tourism-minister-witnesses-first-recovery-operation-of-sunken-antiquities-in-25-years\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T10:13:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T08:13:55","slug":"egypt-tourism-minister-witnesses-first-recovery-operation-of-sunken-antiquities-in-25-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-tourism-minister-witnesses-first-recovery-operation-of-sunken-antiquities-in-25-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: Tourism Minister Witnesses First Recovery Operation of Sunken Antiquities in 25 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Tourism and Antiquities Minister Sherif Fathi witnessed on Thursday 21\/8\/2025 the first recovery operation of sunken antiquities in 25 years at Abu Qir area in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The recovery event was attended by Alexandria Governor Ahmed Khaled in addition to other senior officials at the Tourism Ministry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The minister thanked all workers at the Sunken Antiquities Department and Alexandria City Hall for their efforts to complete the retrieval operation successfully.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508220734.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tourism and Antiquities Minister Sherif Fathi witnessed on Thursday 21\/8\/2025 the first recovery operation of sunken antiquities in 25 years at Abu Qir area in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria. The recovery event was attended by Alexandria Governor Ahmed Khaled in addition to other senior officials at the Tourism Ministry. The minister thanked all workers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":205376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,17305,4697,415,5941,257,8556,9918,254,52190,1634,12677,5114],"class_list":["post-205375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-antiquities","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-minister","tag-news","tag-operation","tag-recovery","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sunken","tag-tourism","tag-witnesses","tag-years"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}