Egypt
http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/columnist/story/0,,1932420,00.html
- Tourism: Tourist Regulations In The Vok
drhawass.com Many people who come to Egypt like to take pictures everywhere, to remember their visit. However, many people come into the Cairo Museum and take pictures with flash, even though there are signs everywhere saying no flash photography, which...
- Theban Mapping Project Website Updated
Theban Mapping Project (Kent Weeks) It is an absolute age since the TMP website was updated with any information about what is happening in the Valley of the Kings and neighbouring areas (over a year, according to this progress reports by Kent Weeks)....
- Today In 1995 - Kv5
http://www-cgi.cnn.com/WORLD/9511/ramses_tomb/"Some further digging in what is believed to be Egypt's largest tomb has uncovered dozens of new rooms and some new corridors that could lead to the burial chambers of the sons of a powerful pharaoh who...
- Theban Mapping Project Newsletter
http://www.thebanmappingproject.com/mailinglist.htmlThe Theban Mapping Project sent out their latest newsletter yesterday 2nd July (to subscribe to their newsletter go to the above link). I can forward a copy of the message to anyone who wants it. The...
- Theban Mapping Project And Kv5
http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/feature/story/0,13026,1342400,00.html An article in the UK Guardian broadsheet about Kent Weeks and his work in the Valley of the Kings. It discusses the Theban Mapping Project, the discovery and excavation of KV5, and...
Egypt
Conservation in Egypt
http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/columnist/story/0,,1932420,00.html
An article looking at conservation issues in Egypt, with particular reference to the Valley of the Kings: "Kent Weeks, of the American University of Cairo, launched the Theban Mapping Project more than 20 years ago simply because no precise plan existed of the 60 or so tombs in the Valley of the Kings. He is still at it, not least because in the course of taking a closer look at a tomb known as KV5, under threat from a tourist car park, "undecorated, unimportant, uninteresting, unnecessary to save," he made the biggest find in Egyptology: 150 chambers and still counting. But there's the catch: as he and his team crawl through the rubble and flash flood debris of 3,000 years, trying delicately to excavate the burial chambers of the sons of Ramses II, more than 7,000 tourists a day are jostling their way into some of the other tombs in the Valley of the Kings, playing merry hell with the heat and humidity levels in dark places that have survived 30 centuries, but may not survive the next 30 years. It isn't just the tourists. Egypt's history is under threat from growing cities, agriculture, manufacturing and pollution. "
See the above page for the full story.
- Tourism: Tourist Regulations In The Vok
drhawass.com Many people who come to Egypt like to take pictures everywhere, to remember their visit. However, many people come into the Cairo Museum and take pictures with flash, even though there are signs everywhere saying no flash photography, which...
- Theban Mapping Project Website Updated
Theban Mapping Project (Kent Weeks) It is an absolute age since the TMP website was updated with any information about what is happening in the Valley of the Kings and neighbouring areas (over a year, according to this progress reports by Kent Weeks)....
- Today In 1995 - Kv5
http://www-cgi.cnn.com/WORLD/9511/ramses_tomb/"Some further digging in what is believed to be Egypt's largest tomb has uncovered dozens of new rooms and some new corridors that could lead to the burial chambers of the sons of a powerful pharaoh who...
- Theban Mapping Project Newsletter
http://www.thebanmappingproject.com/mailinglist.htmlThe Theban Mapping Project sent out their latest newsletter yesterday 2nd July (to subscribe to their newsletter go to the above link). I can forward a copy of the message to anyone who wants it. The...
- Theban Mapping Project And Kv5
http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/feature/story/0,13026,1342400,00.html An article in the UK Guardian broadsheet about Kent Weeks and his work in the Valley of the Kings. It discusses the Theban Mapping Project, the discovery and excavation of KV5, and...