Egypt
Featured Article on Kom Ombo
http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/komombo2.htm
Tour Egypt's most recent Featured Article, by Mark Andrews in entitled "Kom Ombo and the Temple of Sobek and Haroeris". This piece provides a good summary of the site, and is accompanied by some excellent photographs and diagrams to illustrate the article, including a rather splendid David Roberts painting of how it looked at the time when he visited. A short bibliography is also included.
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A Girl And Her Goddess
http://www.aeraweb.org/spec_hatmehyt.asp There is a new short paper on the Ancient Egypt Research Associates (AERA) website by Marie-Astrid Calmettes (Egyptologist), Jessica Kaiser (Osteologist) and Brian V. Hunt, entitled A Girl and her Goddess. I'm...
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Gilf Kebir Feature - Part 2
http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/gilfkebir2.htm The second part of the Tour Egypt feature on the Gilf Kebir appears on the site's home page and on the above URL. This page has a discussion of rock art in the area, and is again accompanied by...
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Tour Egypt - New Blogs Launched
http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/blogreview06172005.htm Tour Egypt's featured article today features their new blogs, including this Egyptology News Blog, a Luxor News Blog, a blog about the roll-out of an Egyptian wedding. I agreed to participate...
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Tutankhamun Tomb Robberies
http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/tutrobbery.htm The latest Tour Egypt featured article is about the tomb robberies that took place in the tomb of Tutankhamun before its discovery by Howard Carter. Although it is often discussed as though the tomb...
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Kom Ombo - Sobek Temple And A New Museum
http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o100425v.htm "Culture Minister Farouk Hosni unveils next month the Sobek temple in Kom Ombo, which bas been restored at a cost of LE 15 million . . . Minister Hosni will also inaugurate a new museum displaying mummified...
Egypt