Egypt
Luxor Times
- New Sound And Light Show At Edfu
Al Ahram Weekly (Ingrid Wassman) The darkness surrounding the temple and the whispers from the eager visitors are quickly submerged by a masterful interplay of music, narration and light. As the show begins, the massive 37-metre-high pylon is splashed...
- Online Resource - The Edfu Project
The Edfu Project Thanks to the Ancient World Online blog for highlighting this project to record and translate texts from the temple of Edfu. It a site plan, photographs of the temple and of a scale model of the temple, multimedia resources and downloads....
- Keeping The Great Sphinx’s Paws Dry
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) Includes diagrams, photographs and a map. Perhaps the single greatest threat to the preservation of Egypt’s monuments is the rising level of underground water throughout the country. Runoff from sewage and agriculture, along...
- Edfu Receives Visitors At Night
State Information Service Thanks to the EEF News Digest for this post, which I had missed. Starting today 1/1/2007 in Edfu, Upper Egypt, Horus Temple receives for the first time its visitors at night. This came in the context of the integrated project...
- Luxor News
http://touregypt.net/teblog/luxornews/ Jane Akshar's Luxor blog has been updated with news on groundwater damaage at the Temple of Edfu, and the dilemma of what to do about houses that damage tombs at Qurna. There is also a summary of a recent lecture...
Egypt
Egypt and U.S. Partner to Launch a Groundwater Lowering Project at Temple Edfu
Luxor Times
The Ministry of State for Antiquities (MSA) along with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) kicked-off a new groundwater lowering project at Temple Edfu in a workshop held today in Cairo. The project will construct a drainage system to lower the groundwater level that threatens antiquities in the Edfu Temple and will be carried out over approximately 20 months.
- New Sound And Light Show At Edfu
Al Ahram Weekly (Ingrid Wassman) The darkness surrounding the temple and the whispers from the eager visitors are quickly submerged by a masterful interplay of music, narration and light. As the show begins, the massive 37-metre-high pylon is splashed...
- Online Resource - The Edfu Project
The Edfu Project Thanks to the Ancient World Online blog for highlighting this project to record and translate texts from the temple of Edfu. It a site plan, photographs of the temple and of a scale model of the temple, multimedia resources and downloads....
- Keeping The Great Sphinx’s Paws Dry
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) Includes diagrams, photographs and a map. Perhaps the single greatest threat to the preservation of Egypt’s monuments is the rising level of underground water throughout the country. Runoff from sewage and agriculture, along...
- Edfu Receives Visitors At Night
State Information Service Thanks to the EEF News Digest for this post, which I had missed. Starting today 1/1/2007 in Edfu, Upper Egypt, Horus Temple receives for the first time its visitors at night. This came in the context of the integrated project...
- Luxor News
http://touregypt.net/teblog/luxornews/ Jane Akshar's Luxor blog has been updated with news on groundwater damaage at the Temple of Edfu, and the dilemma of what to do about houses that damage tombs at Qurna. There is also a summary of a recent lecture...