Egypt
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Egypt
Cooperation with UNESCO to document archeological manuscripts
Egypt State Information Service
Head of the Center for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage (CULTANT) said that CULTANT cooperated with UNESCO and Al-Azhar to document 434 astronomy manuscripts and research.
He added that the project aims to document the Arab and Islamic civilization in the filed of astronomy.
The project also tackled works of astronomy scientists including: el-Hamazani, el-Bironi, Ibn Younes, el-Sofi, Bozgani and others.
CULTANT issued a book on the astronomy science and its theoretical and practical aspects. The book discussed the various inventions of the instruments used in the observation operations including: sundial, Water watch, Aster lap and the Pandol which was discovered by the Egyptian scientist Ibn Younes.
- Beni Hassan First In National Project To Document Egypt’s Heritage
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) Eight years after giving the go-ahead for the National Project to Document Egypt’s Heritage, Beni Hassan necropolis in the Upper Egyptian town of Minya has become the first site on the list to be documented. The...
- Culture Minister Approves Program To Train Museum Staff
Egypt State Information Service Culture Minister Farouk Hosni gave the go-ahead for a program to train museum secretaries and antiquities inspectors nationwide. The project, in tandem with UNESCO, aims to train young archaeologists, said Zahi Hawwas,...
- Rare Medical, Astronomical Manuscripts Found At Dar Al-kotob
State Information Service A number of rare and invaluable medical and astronomical manuscripts have been found at the National Library of Egypt (also known as Dar al-Kotob). A senior official at Alexandria Library said Saturday that the ancient documents...
- Cultant's Heritage Panorama Patent Celebration
State Information Service Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif attended a celebration held Wednesday 11/7/2007 night at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina's Center for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage CULTNAT headquarters marking the occasion of receiving...
- Egyptian-japanese Team To Locate Artifacts Of The New Valley
http://tinyurl.com/dwqmc "On a 3-year mission, a research team from the National Institute for Geophysics and Astronomy, "Helwan Observatory" will resume its project to survey and determine sites to dig for monuments in the Kharga Oases region. This will...