Egypt
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- Travel: Final Swing Through Egypt
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- Snapshot - Nubian Monuments
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- Madrid Quiere Que El Templo De Debod Sea Declarado Bien De Interés Cultural
http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2007/05/10/madrid/1178817970.html"El Gobierno de la Comunidad de Madrid ha acordado incoar expediente para declarar al Templo de Debod Bien de Interés Cultural (BIC) en la categoría de Monumento. Según ha explicado el...
Egypt
Debod: The pharaonic temple in Madrid
Ahram Online (Mohammed Elrazzaz)
With two photos.
With two photos.
In the Parque del Oeste in Madrid tourists can visit the Temple of Debod, which originally stood on land that was flooded after the building of the Aswan High Dam
It’s a sunny day in Madrid. In the Parque del Oeste (Western Park), a couple of teachers herd a group of excited young school kids dressed as Pharaohs into the long queue to enter Debod, one of three Pharaonic temples in Europe.
A visit to this ancient Egyptian site, reassembled in a European city, raises questions about whether sacredness is site-specific. Is it lost when the geo-cultural context is altered?
The temple of Debod may provide an answer. The setting is a perfect one from an aesthetic viewpoint: the temple dominates a beautiful park, surrounded by an artificial pond, in an attempt to recreate the original context.
A closer look reveals that it is not that perfect from a conservation perspective, because – unlike other Pharaonic temples outside Egypt - Debod is set in the open, subject to Madrid’s polluted air and extreme weather conditions.
Why Madrid then? What brought the temple to Spain in the first place? The answer takes us back to the Egypt of the 1960s, and to the epic UNESCO campaign to save the monuments of Nubia from being lost forever.
- Exhibition: Through Spanish Eyes
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El Aref) Spanish archaeology in Egypt began as early as 1886 when Spanish diplomat Eduardo Toda Y Gèell took charge of overseeing the excavation and inventory of the artefacts in the tomb of the 19th-Dynasty craftsman Sennedjem...
- Un Dios Egipcio En Madrid: Im-hotep En La Capilla De Adijalamani En El Templo Egipcio De Debod
Tendencias21 (Francisco J. Martín Valentín) Una de las partes rituales más importantes en la práctica del culto divino diario desarrollado en los templos egipcios consistía en la ejecución de los actos que procuraban el pacífico despertar de la...
- Travel: Final Swing Through Egypt
Jamaica Gleaner News (Laura Tanna) Our last day with our guide, we drive to Aswan Dam, built by the British between 1898 and 1902, and then to the High Dam, built between 1960 and 1971 with the assistance of the Soviet Union, commemorated by a lotus-shaped...
- Snapshot - Nubian Monuments
Al Ahram Weekly (Mohamed El-Hebeishy) ABU SIMBEL, Philae and Kalabsha are temples which come to mind whenever Nubian monuments are mentioned, but is that all the High Dam threatened to flood? Mohamed El Hebeishy finds out. Once the campaign to rescue...
- Madrid Quiere Que El Templo De Debod Sea Declarado Bien De Interés Cultural
http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2007/05/10/madrid/1178817970.html"El Gobierno de la Comunidad de Madrid ha acordado incoar expediente para declarar al Templo de Debod Bien de Interés Cultural (BIC) en la categoría de Monumento. Según ha explicado el...