| Storehouse with cloths of the Egyptian artists of XX century |
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In Cairo during restoration works on seat of the Museum of a civilization have detected storehouse with cloths of the Egyptian artists of XX century. The find was on depth of eight meters in a stone crypt, the input in which has been hidden for unmarked on a card of a building a secret door.  Among the found pictures of work of artists Kamel Mustafa, Mufid Gade, Naguib Fanusa, the sketches executed by oil, architectural drawings, illustrations, old cards, catalogues of 50th years — thousand works which have been packed в400 cardboard boxes and are noted by press of monarchic Egypt. There is a version, that these boxes were stored in a confidential vault since 1952 when in Egypt there was a revolution.  The museum of the Egyptian civilization on island Gezira has appeared in 1936, in it saw one of great treasuries of Islamic art and the Arabian painting of the Near East. It has been called up to compete to the Egyptian museum artefacts and the Louvre.  http: // artchive.ru |