Egypt
Luxor Times
- Clearing Illegal Building On Luxor's West Bank
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) Today, we cleared about 22 monuments on the West Bank of Luxor that had been attacked by illegal building activity in the days following the revolution. Many people built houses or expanded their Alabaster factories over the...
- Cairo Storehose Broken Into On Monday
Al Masry Al Youm Around 60 thieves broke into the Selim Hassan artifact storehouse near the Pyramids on Monday, said Minister of Antiquities Zahi Hawass. Hawass told Al-Masry Al-Youm that the army left the location when police were re-deployed, having...
- From Ray Johnson About Luxor
Luxor News - Jane Akshar A number of issues have been raised lately regarding the urban renewal program in Luxor and its effects on the local population, tourism, antiquities preservation, and the archaeological community. The Epigraphic Survey of the...
- New Tomb Discovered Near Edfu
http://english.people.com.cn/200508/31/eng20050831_205608.html A 5,000-year-old funerary complex in Upper Egypt has been found by a joint Egyptian-US archaeological team: "The tomb was found in the Kom al-Ahmer region near Edfu, some 97 km south of the...
- Sites Just Clinging To Existance
http://tinyurl.com/b6dv5 An LA Times article which provides a short listing with brief descriptions of sites that they consider to be in danger, including the West Bank tombs: "What's at risk: West Bank of the Nile River, Luxor, Egypt. Archeological...
Egypt
Attempted break-in near Edfu
Luxor Times
Three people were arrested when they tried to break into El Kom Al Ahmer site near Edfu. Also few other sites were under armed assault in the past 3 weeks in Saqqara, Dahshur, Minia, Sohag and Aswan trying to rob tombs and antiquities magazines in those sites beside some parts of the sites were built on or been cultivated in other sites like west bank, Luxor.
- Clearing Illegal Building On Luxor's West Bank
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) Today, we cleared about 22 monuments on the West Bank of Luxor that had been attacked by illegal building activity in the days following the revolution. Many people built houses or expanded their Alabaster factories over the...
- Cairo Storehose Broken Into On Monday
Al Masry Al Youm Around 60 thieves broke into the Selim Hassan artifact storehouse near the Pyramids on Monday, said Minister of Antiquities Zahi Hawass. Hawass told Al-Masry Al-Youm that the army left the location when police were re-deployed, having...
- From Ray Johnson About Luxor
Luxor News - Jane Akshar A number of issues have been raised lately regarding the urban renewal program in Luxor and its effects on the local population, tourism, antiquities preservation, and the archaeological community. The Epigraphic Survey of the...
- New Tomb Discovered Near Edfu
http://english.people.com.cn/200508/31/eng20050831_205608.html A 5,000-year-old funerary complex in Upper Egypt has been found by a joint Egyptian-US archaeological team: "The tomb was found in the Kom al-Ahmer region near Edfu, some 97 km south of the...
- Sites Just Clinging To Existance
http://tinyurl.com/b6dv5 An LA Times article which provides a short listing with brief descriptions of sites that they consider to be in danger, including the West Bank tombs: "What's at risk: West Bank of the Nile River, Luxor, Egypt. Archeological...