Egypt
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/744/fe1.htm
- Baron Empain's Legendary Palace Is To Be Converted
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine el-Aref) Baron Empain's legendary palace is to be converted into an international cultural centre and museum after restoration, Nevine El-Aref reports When Edouard Empain arrived to Egypt in 1904 to construct a railway line...
- Saving Heliopolis?
Al Ahram Weekly Once the hallmark of architectural elegance and a rare example of a well-planned suburb, the Cairo district of Heliopolis is today under threat from property developers. When will the government act to save it, asks Mohamed Mursi It's...
- Daily Photo By Bob Partridge (ancient Egypt Magazine)
Heliopololis Click image to see a bigger version of the image For more information about Heliopolis see Su Bayfield's EgyptSites Heliopolis page. With many thanks to Bob Partridge, Editor of Ancient Egypt Magazine. Copyright Bob Partridge Egyptology...
- Travel: Visiting Cairo
http://tinyurl.com/f7utl (mirror.co.uk)A travel item describing in brief what Cairo is like, what to see in the city, where to eat, what sort of night life is available, where to shop, and (if you are based in the UK) how to get there. There are no surprises...
- Helipolis Update
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/784/eg4.htm Nevine El-Aref, providing a good summary of the new temple at Heliopolis, with some additional information: "This site is believed to be an important part of the ancient city of Iunu (ancient Heliopolis), which...
Egypt
Ancient Heliopolis
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/744/fe1.htm
"Connected to the Nile by a canal, Heliopolis (the Ancient Egyptian Iunu and Biblical On) was always a place of eminence. As early as pre-dynastic times it was considered a holy site -- a fact to which the discovery, in the 1950s, of a large cemetery containing 145 human and 14 goat and dog mummies testified. Simple graves set into round or oval pits of various sizes and depths -- a few of them were lined with reed or wood -- they contained only the most basic items. Subsequent studies by the archaeologist credited with the discovery, Fernand Debono, and the Desert Institute point to the performance of ritual activities in these burial chambers, with hearths suggesting funerary meals". Read on for more - this has a lot of information about the archaeology and history of Heliopolis.
For a summary of Heliopolis in the Predynastic, I have posted the following on one of my other sites:
http://www.faiyum.historians.co.uk/html/chalcolithic__maadi-buto_.html#Helipolis
- Baron Empain's Legendary Palace Is To Be Converted
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine el-Aref) Baron Empain's legendary palace is to be converted into an international cultural centre and museum after restoration, Nevine El-Aref reports When Edouard Empain arrived to Egypt in 1904 to construct a railway line...
- Saving Heliopolis?
Al Ahram Weekly Once the hallmark of architectural elegance and a rare example of a well-planned suburb, the Cairo district of Heliopolis is today under threat from property developers. When will the government act to save it, asks Mohamed Mursi It's...
- Daily Photo By Bob Partridge (ancient Egypt Magazine)
Heliopololis Click image to see a bigger version of the image For more information about Heliopolis see Su Bayfield's EgyptSites Heliopolis page. With many thanks to Bob Partridge, Editor of Ancient Egypt Magazine. Copyright Bob Partridge Egyptology...
- Travel: Visiting Cairo
http://tinyurl.com/f7utl (mirror.co.uk)A travel item describing in brief what Cairo is like, what to see in the city, where to eat, what sort of night life is available, where to shop, and (if you are based in the UK) how to get there. There are no surprises...
- Helipolis Update
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/784/eg4.htm Nevine El-Aref, providing a good summary of the new temple at Heliopolis, with some additional information: "This site is believed to be an important part of the ancient city of Iunu (ancient Heliopolis), which...