Egypt
- Giant Roman Palace Unearthed In Upper Egypt
Al Masry Al Youm A huge palace from the Roman ages (31-395 BC) has been discovered in the New Valley Governorate in Upper Egypt, the Ministry of Antiquities announced Monday. An US expedition in the Amhada region, 500km south of Cairo, unearthed a palace...
- India To Help Egypt Conserve The Baron's Palace
The Hindu NEW DELHI: After Katsaraj and Ta Prohm Temple Complexes in Pakistan and Cambodia, India will now help Egypt in conserving and maintaining one of its key tourist spot — Baron Palace — in Cairo, which looks like a typical Hindu temple. The...
- Palatial Museum For Assiut
Al-Ahram The exquisite, early 20th-century residential palace of Alexan Pasha will soon be converted into the Assiut National Museum, Nevine El-Aref reports. The Alexan Pasha Palace stands on the Nile Corniche in Assiut, its faded decorative façades...
- Book Review: Abdin Palace
Egyptian Gazette As usual with the Egyptian Gazette, if you are interested in this piece you should have a look at it shortly, because unless changes have been made to their online arrangements recently, the Egyptian Gazette doesn't archive its online...
- Ancient Building Uncovered At Meroe
The site of the ancient city of Meroe in the Sudan was originally discovered before world war one by famous archaeologist John Garstang who unfortunately never published his findings. Now archaeologist working on behalf of the Royal Ontario Museum have...
Egypt
Daily Photo - Sphinxes from the Palace of Diocletian, Croatia
Thanks very much to Thierry Benderitter from the excellent OsirisNet for sending me these great photographs. The sphinxes are located in the peristyle of the Roman Emperor Diocletian's palace in Split, on Croatia's Adriatic coast. Diocletian abdicated in AD305, and this palace was built for him to spend the rest of his life in. The palace was built using a number of different types of stone - mainly local white limestone, marble and other local materials, but also imported Egyptian granite for the columns, and the sphinxes were brought ready made from Egypt.
Photos of Diocletian's Palace appear on a dedicated gallery page World Heritage section of the UNESCO website. It looks like a fascinating place. There's also a terrific artist's reconstruction of the palace on Wikipedia - it was a vast complex! If you are interested in reading more about the palace, there's a comprehensive survey of it by Michael Greenhalgh from the Department of Art History, the Australian National Univeristy, entitled The "palace" of Diocletian at Split: A Unique Structure from the Later Roman Empire.
- Giant Roman Palace Unearthed In Upper Egypt
Al Masry Al Youm A huge palace from the Roman ages (31-395 BC) has been discovered in the New Valley Governorate in Upper Egypt, the Ministry of Antiquities announced Monday. An US expedition in the Amhada region, 500km south of Cairo, unearthed a palace...
- India To Help Egypt Conserve The Baron's Palace
The Hindu NEW DELHI: After Katsaraj and Ta Prohm Temple Complexes in Pakistan and Cambodia, India will now help Egypt in conserving and maintaining one of its key tourist spot — Baron Palace — in Cairo, which looks like a typical Hindu temple. The...
- Palatial Museum For Assiut
Al-Ahram The exquisite, early 20th-century residential palace of Alexan Pasha will soon be converted into the Assiut National Museum, Nevine El-Aref reports. The Alexan Pasha Palace stands on the Nile Corniche in Assiut, its faded decorative façades...
- Book Review: Abdin Palace
Egyptian Gazette As usual with the Egyptian Gazette, if you are interested in this piece you should have a look at it shortly, because unless changes have been made to their online arrangements recently, the Egyptian Gazette doesn't archive its online...
- Ancient Building Uncovered At Meroe
The site of the ancient city of Meroe in the Sudan was originally discovered before world war one by famous archaeologist John Garstang who unfortunately never published his findings. Now archaeologist working on behalf of the Royal Ontario Museum have...