Egypt
- Museums
Video: The basement of the Cairo Museum drhawass.com The footage of the Cairo Museum's basement is terrific. The main story of the video is Hawass's early experience of archaeology from a site called Kom Abu Billu and how he found a particular...
- Visits To Tutankhamun & Update On Cairo Museum Basement
http://tinyurl.com/dkevf (Egyptian State Information Service) Some 200,000 Americans visited Tutankhamun and the Golden age of the Pharaohs exhibition in Fort Luaderdale, Florida, USA since its inauguration last week. Florida is the second leg of the...
- The Pyramids In Mafia Colours
http://www.cairomagazine.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=1514&format=htmlI was going to save this very short bulletin from the Cairo Magazine for the trivia slot on Saturday, but it is actually an important topic, so as improbable as the whole thing...
- Found And Lost
http://tinyurl.com/9xgjz More about the artefacts missing in the Cairo Museum: "To recover the lost artifacts—statues approximately 20cm tall—Hawass appointed a committee of “seven to eight” archaeologists to search the colossal basement. He claims...
- Cairo Museum Catalogued
The basement of the Cairo museum is being catalogued and here is another article. http://www.gadling.com/2009/07/26/major-archaeological-discovery-in-egypt-in-museum-basement/...
Egypt
Cairo Museum basement to be opened to visitors
http://www.cairomagazine.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=1514&format=html
"The basement of the Egyptian Museum will be opened to visitors. Zahi Hawass, head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, declared that a contract has been signed with a state-owned company to insure and reorganize the Egyptian Museum’s basement before making it accessible to visitors. The decision comes after several items from the basement storage area have been 'lost' or stolen in the past year, to the embarrassment of those responsible".
This is the complete bulletin on the Cairo Magazine website.
- Museums
Video: The basement of the Cairo Museum drhawass.com The footage of the Cairo Museum's basement is terrific. The main story of the video is Hawass's early experience of archaeology from a site called Kom Abu Billu and how he found a particular...
- Visits To Tutankhamun & Update On Cairo Museum Basement
http://tinyurl.com/dkevf (Egyptian State Information Service) Some 200,000 Americans visited Tutankhamun and the Golden age of the Pharaohs exhibition in Fort Luaderdale, Florida, USA since its inauguration last week. Florida is the second leg of the...
- The Pyramids In Mafia Colours
http://www.cairomagazine.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=1514&format=htmlI was going to save this very short bulletin from the Cairo Magazine for the trivia slot on Saturday, but it is actually an important topic, so as improbable as the whole thing...
- Found And Lost
http://tinyurl.com/9xgjz More about the artefacts missing in the Cairo Museum: "To recover the lost artifacts—statues approximately 20cm tall—Hawass appointed a committee of “seven to eight” archaeologists to search the colossal basement. He claims...
- Cairo Museum Catalogued
The basement of the Cairo museum is being catalogued and here is another article. http://www.gadling.com/2009/07/26/major-archaeological-discovery-in-egypt-in-museum-basement/...