Egypt
concierge.com by Susan Hack
- Protests Turn Against Minister Hawass
Bikya Masr Egypt’s Zahi Hawass, the man who has become synonymous with Egyptology, known for his cowboy had wearing, has sparked the ire of Egyptians in recent days, with protests chanting for him to step down from his post atop the country’s Supreme...
- Feature: Ian Parker, Letter From Cairo, “the Pharaoh,”
New Yorker (Ian Parker) Read the full text of this article in the digital edition. (Subscription required.) November 16, 2009 Issue ABSTRACT: LETTER FROM CAIRO about archeologist Zahi Hawass, the secretary-general of that country’s Supreme Council of...
- Drop The Mummy
Reporter's Notebook blog This is a bit of an odd one. Thanks to Rhio for sending it over. The above site is a blog post which reports on an article which was published by Manal el-Jesri in Egypt Today in January 2005 . I may well have posted it in...
- More Re Display Of The Mummy Of Tutankhamun
National Geographic The mummy will be removed from its sarcophagus and placed in a climate-controlled glass case in the antechamber of the pharaoh's tomb in Luxor in November (see Egypt map). "I am taking [the mummy] out to show it to the...
- Egytpological Conflicts In Modern Egypt
http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=3383 "Ahmed Saleh, the director of SCA’s Abu Simbel antiquities department watched with the rest of the world as Hawass made his discoveries in Bahareya on December 13th, 2004. 'That was a real joke....
Egypt
A conversation with Zahi Hawass
concierge.com by Susan Hack
The secretary general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, Zahi Hawass is the guardian of the country's incomparable wealth of monuments, a flamboyant showman whose many books and television documentaries have made him the most famous Egyptologist since Howard Carter. He spoke to Condé Nast Traveler's Susan Hack about the need to balance tourism and conservation, Americans' overreliance in package tours, and why he wants his country's treasures back.
- Protests Turn Against Minister Hawass
Bikya Masr Egypt’s Zahi Hawass, the man who has become synonymous with Egyptology, known for his cowboy had wearing, has sparked the ire of Egyptians in recent days, with protests chanting for him to step down from his post atop the country’s Supreme...
- Feature: Ian Parker, Letter From Cairo, “the Pharaoh,”
New Yorker (Ian Parker) Read the full text of this article in the digital edition. (Subscription required.) November 16, 2009 Issue ABSTRACT: LETTER FROM CAIRO about archeologist Zahi Hawass, the secretary-general of that country’s Supreme Council of...
- Drop The Mummy
Reporter's Notebook blog This is a bit of an odd one. Thanks to Rhio for sending it over. The above site is a blog post which reports on an article which was published by Manal el-Jesri in Egypt Today in January 2005 . I may well have posted it in...
- More Re Display Of The Mummy Of Tutankhamun
National Geographic The mummy will be removed from its sarcophagus and placed in a climate-controlled glass case in the antechamber of the pharaoh's tomb in Luxor in November (see Egypt map). "I am taking [the mummy] out to show it to the...
- Egytpological Conflicts In Modern Egypt
http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=3383 "Ahmed Saleh, the director of SCA’s Abu Simbel antiquities department watched with the rest of the world as Hawass made his discoveries in Bahareya on December 13th, 2004. 'That was a real joke....