Egypt
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- More Re Opening Of Medinet Maadi
Gadling Last week a new ancient site opened to the public in Egypt--a temple of the crocodile god Sobek. Medinet Madi is located in Egypt's Faiyum region, a fertile area around a lake at the end of a branch of the Nile called Bahr Yusuf ("The River...
- Medinet Madi Featured Crocodile Nursery
Discovery News (Rossella Lorenzi) With photo of the heavily restored site. Egyptian authorities put another archaeological site on the country’s tourist map yesterday by opening a visitor center at Madinet Madi in the Fayoum region south of Cairo. Founded...
- Celebrating The Site Of Madinet Madi
drhawass.com Press release. Medinet Madi in the Faiyum depression (to the southwest of Cairo) used to be very isolated. The idea of an eco-lodge being built on its doorstep sounds very odd. The Minister of State for Antiquities, Zahi Hawass, and the...
- Madinet Madi Now On The Egypt Tourism Map
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) The Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs Zahi Hawass and Italian Ambassador to Egypt Claudio Pacifico will be celebrating the end of the second phase of the Madinet Madi Development Project in the Fayoum governorate,...
- Archaeological Discoveries In The Fayoum And Luxor
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/793/hr1.htmNevine El-Aref again, this time on the subject of two areas of Egypt where important discoveries have been made this archaeological season: "Fayoum and Luxor are two magnificent Upper Egyptian regions with rich...
Egypt
Discoveries at Medinet Madi, Faiyum
http://tinyurl.com/ongrz (dailystar.com)
Work at the lovely Medinet Madi temple has apparently uncovered some new dimensions to the temple complex. The temple dates to the 12th Dynasty, under Amenemhat IV:
Work at the lovely Medinet Madi temple has apparently uncovered some new dimensions to the temple complex. The temple dates to the 12th Dynasty, under Amenemhat IV:
"An Egyptian archeological team has discovered a series of structures in the southwestern town of Faiyum that could yield vital data as to how a Middle Kingdom temple was built, the culture minister said Thursday. Farouk Hosni said the structures included administrative buildings, granaries and residences believed to have belonged to priests of the temple, which was dedicated to Renenutet, the goddess of harvest, as well as the crocodile-god Sobk and falcon-deity Horus, Hosni added. . . . Items found at the site included seals used by the priests of Renenutet with hieroglyphic inscriptions, a headless limestone statue, a bronze statue of a woman and papyri with Greek and demotic writings, said Abdel-Rahman al-Aidi, director of the SCA's excavations department and team leader. Some of the papyri contained royal correspondences, including one from the wife of Ptolemy I to the priest of the temple of Renenutet 'thanking him for the temple's magnificent services,' Hawas said."
See the above article for the full story.
Medinet Madi is super, always encroached upon by sand, with the most charming row of human- and lion-headed sphinxes, all in honey coloured stone. The photos that I've added are from 2003, when I last visited.
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- More Re Opening Of Medinet Maadi
Gadling Last week a new ancient site opened to the public in Egypt--a temple of the crocodile god Sobek. Medinet Madi is located in Egypt's Faiyum region, a fertile area around a lake at the end of a branch of the Nile called Bahr Yusuf ("The River...
- Medinet Madi Featured Crocodile Nursery
Discovery News (Rossella Lorenzi) With photo of the heavily restored site. Egyptian authorities put another archaeological site on the country’s tourist map yesterday by opening a visitor center at Madinet Madi in the Fayoum region south of Cairo. Founded...
- Celebrating The Site Of Madinet Madi
drhawass.com Press release. Medinet Madi in the Faiyum depression (to the southwest of Cairo) used to be very isolated. The idea of an eco-lodge being built on its doorstep sounds very odd. The Minister of State for Antiquities, Zahi Hawass, and the...
- Madinet Madi Now On The Egypt Tourism Map
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) The Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs Zahi Hawass and Italian Ambassador to Egypt Claudio Pacifico will be celebrating the end of the second phase of the Madinet Madi Development Project in the Fayoum governorate,...
- Archaeological Discoveries In The Fayoum And Luxor
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/793/hr1.htmNevine El-Aref again, this time on the subject of two areas of Egypt where important discoveries have been made this archaeological season: "Fayoum and Luxor are two magnificent Upper Egyptian regions with rich...