Egypt
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=76605
- Archaeologists Warn Of Climate Threat
Yahoo! News Mummies decaying in Siberia, pyramids vanishing under the sand in Sudan, Maya temples collapsing: climate change risks destroying countless treasures from our shared past, archaeologists warn. . . . Sand is one of the worst enemies of archaeological...
- Climate Change During Dynastic Egypt?
AFP (Christophe de Roquefeuil) As world experts grapple with ways to contain global warming, researchers gathered in Egypt are seeking answers from the country's pharaonic past to help tackle environmental problems of the present. Blessed with incomparable...
- Features: A Round Up Of Recent Features
I'll be here forever and a day if I try to put together a post for each drhawass.com and Heritage Key feature that has appeared in the last couple of weeks so apologies for the brevity but here's a list of those that struck me as the most interesting....
- Mediterranean Sea Level Changes Threaten Nile Delta
Amador Ledger Dispatch (Anna Johnson) The Delta was already in danger, threatened by the side effects of southern Egypt's Aswan Dam. Though the dam, completed in 1970, generates much-needed electricity and controls Nile River flooding, it also keeps...
- Conserving Monuments
Here Dr. Hawass talks about conservation of monuments in particularly the step pyramid and the serapeum. Dr. Hawass also mentions an unexplored shaft on the east side of the step pyramid that will be excavated. The fine doctor also briefly discusses climate...
Egypt
Climate change poses threat to world heritage
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=76605
"Governments must realize that the greenhouse effect is damaging world heritage monuments such as the Parthenon, climatology experts said at the International Conference on Climate currently under way in Nairobi. Climate change is a grave threat to some of the greatest world heritage monuments, from Darwin’s favorite coral reef in Belize to the archaeological treasures of Scotland. . . . .Egypt is also at risk. Coastal erosion and flooding in the Nile Delta pose a risk to the monuments of Alexandria".
See the above article for more.
- Archaeologists Warn Of Climate Threat
Yahoo! News Mummies decaying in Siberia, pyramids vanishing under the sand in Sudan, Maya temples collapsing: climate change risks destroying countless treasures from our shared past, archaeologists warn. . . . Sand is one of the worst enemies of archaeological...
- Climate Change During Dynastic Egypt?
AFP (Christophe de Roquefeuil) As world experts grapple with ways to contain global warming, researchers gathered in Egypt are seeking answers from the country's pharaonic past to help tackle environmental problems of the present. Blessed with incomparable...
- Features: A Round Up Of Recent Features
I'll be here forever and a day if I try to put together a post for each drhawass.com and Heritage Key feature that has appeared in the last couple of weeks so apologies for the brevity but here's a list of those that struck me as the most interesting....
- Mediterranean Sea Level Changes Threaten Nile Delta
Amador Ledger Dispatch (Anna Johnson) The Delta was already in danger, threatened by the side effects of southern Egypt's Aswan Dam. Though the dam, completed in 1970, generates much-needed electricity and controls Nile River flooding, it also keeps...
- Conserving Monuments
Here Dr. Hawass talks about conservation of monuments in particularly the step pyramid and the serapeum. Dr. Hawass also mentions an unexplored shaft on the east side of the step pyramid that will be excavated. The fine doctor also briefly discusses climate...