Egypt
- Hundreds Of Items Stolen From The Egyptian Museum?
News from the Valley of the Kings (Kate Phizackerley) Kate has blogged about an unverified report suggesting that many more items have been stolen from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo than official reports have stated. The report that Kate discusses, by...
- Travel: El Kharga Driving Adventure
xmarksthescot (Barb T.) With some great photos of car parts! I'm back in Egypt for a week or so of field work in the Western Desert. We had an entertaining day last Thursday trying to get from Alexandria to El Kharga, an oasis town in the center of...
- Travel: An Oases Road Trip
Al-Masry Al-Youm (John Harris) With photos. In the past, the problem wasn’t the spectacular scenery along the way, but the transport and accommodation infrastructure that made it all accessible. Until recently, accessing the Western Desert was better...
- Mummification Museum Lecture - North Kharga Survey (dr Salima Ikram)
Luxor News blog (Jane Akshar) As usual, Jane brings the lecture to life in her own inimitable way. Thanks as usual, Jane. You should have been there. Every week we have trouble with the display of slides, sometimes it is the projector, sometimes the computer...
- Objects From The Kharga Oasis
Here we have the exhibition from The Metropolitan Museum of Art on their excavations in the Kharga Oasis early in the last century. The images of the intact tomb LXVI, discovered by the excavation in 1930-31 are fascinating! Objects from the Kharga Oasis...
Egypt
Disruptions in Kharga and Assiut
There have been reports of a very unofficial nature of attacks on, or damage to, the museums of Assiut and Kharga. Please note - both of these reports remain to be verified. If anyone hears anything more official please let me know:
andie @ oddthing. co. uk
Kate and I have been trying to track down what is happening in Kharga (see Kate's post for the latest news), but apart from the fact that the oasis in clearly in a crisis (the photos emerging are unsettling) there is no independently confirmed news about exactly what is happening or how the museum has been impacted. One report on Twitter suggested that a march on the museum had been organized, but there is no news to confirm whether there really was such a plan and, if there was, whether it was actioned. All terribly infuriating!
UPDATED - Thanks to Kate for posting that Salima Ikram has apparently said on Facebook that the Kharga museum is fine at the moment (I don't know who Salima Ikram's sources are). There has also been an official statement that although a number of official buildings were destroyed in Kharga, (referred to in the article as Al Wadi Al Gadeed, which means "the new valley") the Kharga Museum has not been harmed, although again it does not say who in Kharga provided the information:
The news from Assiut is even more vague, with one article on Al Masry Al Youm suggesting that the museum has been targeted as a representative of government injustice.
andie @ oddthing. co. uk
Kate and I have been trying to track down what is happening in Kharga (see Kate's post for the latest news), but apart from the fact that the oasis in clearly in a crisis (the photos emerging are unsettling) there is no independently confirmed news about exactly what is happening or how the museum has been impacted. One report on Twitter suggested that a march on the museum had been organized, but there is no news to confirm whether there really was such a plan and, if there was, whether it was actioned. All terribly infuriating!
UPDATED - Thanks to Kate for posting that Salima Ikram has apparently said on Facebook that the Kharga museum is fine at the moment (I don't know who Salima Ikram's sources are). There has also been an official statement that although a number of official buildings were destroyed in Kharga, (referred to in the article as Al Wadi Al Gadeed, which means "the new valley") the Kharga Museum has not been harmed, although again it does not say who in Kharga provided the information:
On his part, Sabri Abdel Aziz, head of the ancient Egyptian section, asserted that the museum in Al-Wadi Al-Gadeed has been unaffected by recent violent clashes in the governorate. The police station, prosecutor's office and National Democratic Party headquarters were destroyed by fire in the early hours of Wednesday.
The news from Assiut is even more vague, with one article on Al Masry Al Youm suggesting that the museum has been targeted as a representative of government injustice.
- Hundreds Of Items Stolen From The Egyptian Museum?
News from the Valley of the Kings (Kate Phizackerley) Kate has blogged about an unverified report suggesting that many more items have been stolen from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo than official reports have stated. The report that Kate discusses, by...
- Travel: El Kharga Driving Adventure
xmarksthescot (Barb T.) With some great photos of car parts! I'm back in Egypt for a week or so of field work in the Western Desert. We had an entertaining day last Thursday trying to get from Alexandria to El Kharga, an oasis town in the center of...
- Travel: An Oases Road Trip
Al-Masry Al-Youm (John Harris) With photos. In the past, the problem wasn’t the spectacular scenery along the way, but the transport and accommodation infrastructure that made it all accessible. Until recently, accessing the Western Desert was better...
- Mummification Museum Lecture - North Kharga Survey (dr Salima Ikram)
Luxor News blog (Jane Akshar) As usual, Jane brings the lecture to life in her own inimitable way. Thanks as usual, Jane. You should have been there. Every week we have trouble with the display of slides, sometimes it is the projector, sometimes the computer...
- Objects From The Kharga Oasis
Here we have the exhibition from The Metropolitan Museum of Art on their excavations in the Kharga Oasis early in the last century. The images of the intact tomb LXVI, discovered by the excavation in 1930-31 are fascinating! Objects from the Kharga Oasis...