The museum occupies 2km square and will contain over 300 antiquities taken from eight other national museums, the Head of the Museum Sector, Mahmoud Mabrouk, said.

    The museum will include a number of valuable engravings found in different areas of the North Sinai governorate, the Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), Zahi Hawass, said.

    Al-Arish Museum is part of a larger SCA plan to establish a number of regional museums all over the Republic