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Le service des antiquités d’Egypte was established in 1859
belonging to the ministry of public works. Later on, it belonged to
the ministries of: Information, national Guidance, and Education
and since 1960, it became a part of the ministry of culture. Le
service des antiquités was transformed in 1971 into the Egyptian
Antiquities Organization EAO (presidential decree 2828/1971)
having its own president and belonging to the ministry of culture.
The EAO was then transformed by the decree 82/1994 into the
supreme council of Antiquities SCA belonging to the ministry of
culture and its president is the minister himself.
In 1997, the ministry of Environment took the responsibility of
the preservation of Natural Reserves in Egypt.
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