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St Mary & St Mercurius Coptic Orthodox Church is holding its fifth Egyptian Festival in Conshohocken. The church makes its home in the former SS. Cosmas and Damian Catholic Church.

It's a celebration of all things Egyptian at this World Culture Day. The galleries come to life with a medley of activities to help visitors discover ancient Egypt, one of the world's oldest civilizations. Guests enjoy an Mummy Makers workshop, interactive belly-dancing, hands-on crafts and games, Egyptian hieroglyph lessons, and talks on Egyptian history and archaeology. Egyptologists Josef Wegner and Jennifer Houser Wegner tell stories from their new book, The Sphinx That Traveled to Philadelphia: The Story of the Colossal Sphinx in the Penn Museum.

Sherif Mansour is an Egyptian-American democracy and human rights activist. Before joining CPJ, he worked with Freedom House, in Washington, D.C., where he managed advocacy training for activists from the Middle East and North Africa. In 2010, Mansour co-founded the Egyptian Association for Change, a Washington-based nonprofit group that mobilizes Egyptians in the U.S. to support democracy and human rights in Egypt.

Penn Museum will a day of free admission and special programming for adults and families, as part of the Association of Art Museum Directors’ (AAMD) Art Museum Day, coinciding with International Museum Day on Monday, May 18, 2015 Last year, the Penn Museum—along with 180 other AAMD member museums across North America—participated in Art Museum Day.

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At the afternoon talk, Dr. Hawass shares an inside perspective on a host of recent archaeological discoveries in Egypt. Dr. Hawass has excavated around the Sphinx and the Pyramids of Giza for many years.

He found the tombs of the pyramid builders that tell the story of the workmen who were involved in the massive construction projects.

He also drilled under the Sphinx to learn more. At Giza, he directed a scientific research team that used a robot to search for secret doors inside the Great Pyramid of Khufu.

While the Athenaeum is celebrating its 200th anniversary, we must also acknowledge the cultures that preceded us but still hold a fascination for contemporary readers and collectors. Through his collection and exhaustive research, Brier seeks to understand the pull of Ancient Egypt on our world today, finding that the connections are undisputable. In this one-stop Egyptian compendium, Brier explores our ceaseless fixation with Egypt, and the historical events that sparked it, referencing his own collection of artifacts, as well as the cultural implications of such findings. Egyptomania is an inventive and mesmerizing tour of how an ancient civilization endures in ours today.

Enter the reconstructed palace of the Pharaoh Merenptah, and see a 12-ton sphinx, the sixth largest in the world, as part of a guided tour at the Penn Museum.

In two special exhibitions, visitors discover the story behind a short-lived royal city where King Tut was born, and explore “The Egyptian Mummy: Secrets and Science.”

Info: 215-898-4000 or www.penn.museum.

Literacy, Social Studies, and Music Educators are invited to attend this workshop about preeminent Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum whose extraordinary life provides a window into Arab arts, culture, and history. The workshop, offered by Penn's Middle East Center and Al-Bustan, will guide teachers through a new online curriculum unit about the life and legacy of Umm Kulthum created by a team of educators, artists, and digital designers with Al-Bustan.