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Riyadh to Host 5th Session of Arab-Chinese Experts Meeting in Libraries, Information

The King Abdulaziz Public Library (KAPL). SPA
The King Abdulaziz Public Library (KAPL). SPA
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Riyadh to Host 5th Session of Arab-Chinese Experts Meeting in Libraries, Information

The King Abdulaziz Public Library (KAPL). SPA
The King Abdulaziz Public Library (KAPL). SPA

Riyadh will host on Monday the 5th session of the Arab-Chinese Library and Information Experts' meeting within the framework of the China-Arab States Cooperation Forum (CASCF).
Under the theme "Library Services Transformation Given Changing of Information Environment", the event will be organized by the Information, Documentation, and Translation Department of the General Secretariat of the Arab League in collaboration with the King Abdulaziz Public Library (KAPL) and the National Library of China.
The KAPL will host the session from December 4 to 7.
It aims to activate the mechanisms of Arab-Chinese cooperation in the field of libraries and information within the CASCF. It also seeks to enhance the role of Arab and Chinese libraries in enriching the content of the Arab-Chinese digital library.

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Greece Opens Ancient Life Artifacts’ Exhibition at Acropolis Museum

Visitors look at the temple of the Parthenon from inside the new Acropolis museum in Athens June 21, 2009. (Reuters)
Visitors look at the temple of the Parthenon from inside the new Acropolis museum in Athens June 21, 2009. (Reuters)
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Greece Opens Ancient Life Artifacts’ Exhibition at Acropolis Museum

Visitors look at the temple of the Parthenon from inside the new Acropolis museum in Athens June 21, 2009. (Reuters)
Visitors look at the temple of the Parthenon from inside the new Acropolis museum in Athens June 21, 2009. (Reuters)

Greece on Wednesday opened to the public an exhibition of more than 1,100 artifacts, from statues and table games to children's toys, found in an ancient Athens neighborhood during excavations in the area of its modern Acropolis museum.

The objects, unearthed from the foothill of the Acropolis hill that hosts the Parthenon temple, have been restored and are part of a site Greece calls "the museum under the museum" which will be accessible to visitors from July 26.

Everyday items, from storage vessels and cooking pots to weaving tools and needles, are testament to residents' daily life over 4,500 years, the culture ministry said.

The remains of the neighborhood on top of which the Acropolis museum was built reconstruct a complex of streets, homes with spacious rooms and courtyards, baths and workshops, and have been accessible to visitors since 2019.

"Placed on the southern fringes of the archaeological site, (the exhibition) fits harmoniously into the visitor's journey, contributing to the understanding of people's everyday life," said Culture Minister Lina Mendoni.

More than 1.5 million people annually visit the 14,000 square meter (16,743.86 square yards) Acropolis museum which is meant to visually connect with the Parthenon and other temples on the Acropolis hill.

About half of the 160-meter frieze from the Parthenon temple is in the British Museum, while 50 meters of the carvings are in the museum in Athens.

Greece has repeatedly urged the British Museum to permanently return the 2,500-year-old sculptures that British diplomat Lord Elgin removed from the temple in 1806, during a period when Greece was under Ottoman Turkish rule. Mendoni said the new museum was the ideal venue to host the Parthenon in its entirety.

"This museum constitutes the optimal physical and conceptual framework for highlighting, interpreting and understanding its masterpieces," she said.