Egypt
- New Subterranean Finds At Tel Al-dabaa Near Ancient Avaris
drhawass.com Press Release Cultural Minister Farouk Hosni announced today that the Austrian mission at Tell el-Daba has located the southern suburban quarters of the ancient city of Avaris, the capital of the Hyksos in the Second Intermediate Period...
- Coptic Era Discoveries
http://tinyurl.com/rpza7 (sis.gov.eg)"While carrying out a survey on the archaeological valleys and hills on Luxor's West Bank, in an attempt to locate sites used by the Copts, an archaeological mission of the French Institute for Oriental Studies...
- Getty To Assist In Valley Of The Queens
http://tinyurl.com/hzc6j (Los Angeles Times - Calendar Live)The Getty Conservation Institute is to assist Egypt to conserve tombs in the Valley of the Queens: "Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities and the Getty Conservation Institute have entered...
- Developing Egyptian Museum
http://tinyurl.com/b2yj2 (State Information Service)"Dr. Zahi Hawwas, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), said a project was underway to develop the Egyptian Museum's cellar. 'The project is meant to turn the place into...
- Egyptian-italian Project To List Fayoum Monuments On World Map
http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o280925b.htm "Minister of Culture Farouq Hosni approved an LE 3 million Egyptian-Italian project to renovate and develop archaeological sites in the area of Kom Mady in Fayoum. Dr. Zahi Hawwas, Secretary-General of...
Egypt
Egyptian-Japanese team to locate artifacts of the New Valley
http://tinyurl.com/dwqmc
"On a 3-year mission, a research team from the National Institute for Geophysics and Astronomy, "Helwan Observatory" will resume its project to survey and determine sites to dig for monuments in the Kharga Oases region. This will be carried out in cooperation with the Computer Science Lab in Technology Institute in Tokyo as well as the Supreme Council for Antiquities. Such enterprise aims at the detection of antiquities around Al-Zaiyan Temple in Polaq district in Al-Kharga Oases, in which state-of the art-technology will be used to determine and locate significant antiquities sites. Notably, a similar field study was carried out before to locate the underground water surrounding Hebes Temple in the New Valley".
"On a 3-year mission, a research team from the National Institute for Geophysics and Astronomy, "Helwan Observatory" will resume its project to survey and determine sites to dig for monuments in the Kharga Oases region. This will be carried out in cooperation with the Computer Science Lab in Technology Institute in Tokyo as well as the Supreme Council for Antiquities. Such enterprise aims at the detection of antiquities around Al-Zaiyan Temple in Polaq district in Al-Kharga Oases, in which state-of the art-technology will be used to determine and locate significant antiquities sites. Notably, a similar field study was carried out before to locate the underground water surrounding Hebes Temple in the New Valley".
This is the complete bulletin on the State Information Service website.
- New Subterranean Finds At Tel Al-dabaa Near Ancient Avaris
drhawass.com Press Release Cultural Minister Farouk Hosni announced today that the Austrian mission at Tell el-Daba has located the southern suburban quarters of the ancient city of Avaris, the capital of the Hyksos in the Second Intermediate Period...
- Coptic Era Discoveries
http://tinyurl.com/rpza7 (sis.gov.eg)"While carrying out a survey on the archaeological valleys and hills on Luxor's West Bank, in an attempt to locate sites used by the Copts, an archaeological mission of the French Institute for Oriental Studies...
- Getty To Assist In Valley Of The Queens
http://tinyurl.com/hzc6j (Los Angeles Times - Calendar Live)The Getty Conservation Institute is to assist Egypt to conserve tombs in the Valley of the Queens: "Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities and the Getty Conservation Institute have entered...
- Developing Egyptian Museum
http://tinyurl.com/b2yj2 (State Information Service)"Dr. Zahi Hawwas, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), said a project was underway to develop the Egyptian Museum's cellar. 'The project is meant to turn the place into...
- Egyptian-italian Project To List Fayoum Monuments On World Map
http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o280925b.htm "Minister of Culture Farouq Hosni approved an LE 3 million Egyptian-Italian project to renovate and develop archaeological sites in the area of Kom Mady in Fayoum. Dr. Zahi Hawwas, Secretary-General of...