Culture, Energy Transition Ministries Sign Agreement to Protect Heritage Sites

The agreement was inked by Minister of Youth, Culture and Communication, Mohammed Mehdi Bensaid, and Minister of Energy Transition and Sustainable Development, Leila Benali, on the sidelines of the conference and exhibition « The Atlas lions: echoes of a thousand-year-old roar ».

The two events were an opportunity to present for the first time the fossils of the Atlas lions that have been discovered in the Moroccan archaeological sites.

Speaking on this occasion, Bensaid said that this agreement is part of the efforts and growing interest in heritage, which should be accompanied by institutional measures to structure this field.

It allows to counter the illicit traffic and to create interpretation centers of heritage to bring the general public closer to this inexhaustible science, he noted.