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ALECSO General Conference Praises Saudi Arabia's 'Gifted Arabs' Initiative 

The Gifted Arabs initiative is organized by the King Abdulaziz and His Companions Foundation for Giftedness and Creativity (Mawhiba) in collaboration with ALECSO. (SPA)
The Gifted Arabs initiative is organized by the King Abdulaziz and His Companions Foundation for Giftedness and Creativity (Mawhiba) in collaboration with ALECSO. (SPA)
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ALECSO General Conference Praises Saudi Arabia's 'Gifted Arabs' Initiative 

The Gifted Arabs initiative is organized by the King Abdulaziz and His Companions Foundation for Giftedness and Creativity (Mawhiba) in collaboration with ALECSO. (SPA)
The Gifted Arabs initiative is organized by the King Abdulaziz and His Companions Foundation for Giftedness and Creativity (Mawhiba) in collaboration with ALECSO. (SPA)

The Arab League Educational, Cultural, and Scientific Organization (ALECSO) praised on Monday the Gifted Arabs Initiative that has played a significant role in supporting talented individuals across all Arab countries.

The initiative is organized by the King Abdulaziz and His Companions Foundation for Giftedness and Creativity (Mawhiba) in collaboration with ALECSO, which held a General Conference in Jeddah on Monday.

The event was attended by Minister of Education and Vice Chairman of the Saudi National Committee for Education, Culture, and Science, Yousef bin Abdullah Al-Benyan, as well as ministers and heads of national committees for education and science from 22 Arab countries.

The initiative has been instrumental in creating an encouraging environment for talent and creativity in the Arab world for the third consecutive year.

It reflects the Kingdom's commitment to sharing its pioneering experience in discovering and nurturing talented students with the Arab world and supporting Arab youth in utilizing their energies and capabilities.

This is achieved through the development of a specialized assessment to identify talented and creative individuals in the Arab world, taking into account the diverse Arab environment and culture.

The assessment is based on a scientific methodology that incorporates the best global educational practices.

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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.