Egypt
Ahram Online (Nevine El Aref)
- List Of 'at Risk' Egyptian Archaeological Sites To Be Published
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) In an attempt to preserve and protect archaeological sites threatened by urban development, Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) is preparing a list of sites deemed at risk, which will be distributed to archaeological...
- Lahun Excavation Is Shut Down
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) Hopefully further information will emerge to clarify the situation. Excavations at the Lahoun archaeological site in Fayoum have been halted due to negligence of the excavators The Permanent Committee of Egyptian Antiquities...
- Excavation Team Formed
Egypt State Information Service Culture Minister Farouk Hosni named the first antiquities excavation team under Dr. Zahi Hawas Secretary General of the Antiquities Supreme Council to operate in Valley of the Kings in Luxor to unearth a number of tombs...
- Access By Foreign Missions To Egypt
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/725/hr2.htm Zahi Hawass in his Al Ahram column talking about foreign missions to Egypt, explaining some of the SCA regulations for foreign missions applying to work in Egypt, and the reasons for them. He also addresses...
- Archaeological Work Resumes In Upper Egypt
I laughed when I saw the title of the "Permanent Council of Antiquities", apparently it is led by whoever is the head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities on any given day? Anyhoo the secretary general of such organizations has approved...
Egypt
Foreign missions resume their archaeological works in Upper Egypt
Ahram Online (Nevine El Aref)
Polish, American and German archaeological missions are given government authorisation to resume important works in Luxor and Aswan
This year’s October-December archaeological projects by foreign entities resume in full-swing under government authority.
The Permanent Committee of Antiquities (PCA), led by Mostafa Amine, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), approved the resumption of several archaeological works carried out by foreign archaeological missions.
- List Of 'at Risk' Egyptian Archaeological Sites To Be Published
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) In an attempt to preserve and protect archaeological sites threatened by urban development, Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) is preparing a list of sites deemed at risk, which will be distributed to archaeological...
- Lahun Excavation Is Shut Down
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) Hopefully further information will emerge to clarify the situation. Excavations at the Lahoun archaeological site in Fayoum have been halted due to negligence of the excavators The Permanent Committee of Egyptian Antiquities...
- Excavation Team Formed
Egypt State Information Service Culture Minister Farouk Hosni named the first antiquities excavation team under Dr. Zahi Hawas Secretary General of the Antiquities Supreme Council to operate in Valley of the Kings in Luxor to unearth a number of tombs...
- Access By Foreign Missions To Egypt
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/725/hr2.htm Zahi Hawass in his Al Ahram column talking about foreign missions to Egypt, explaining some of the SCA regulations for foreign missions applying to work in Egypt, and the reasons for them. He also addresses...
- Archaeological Work Resumes In Upper Egypt
I laughed when I saw the title of the "Permanent Council of Antiquities", apparently it is led by whoever is the head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities on any given day? Anyhoo the secretary general of such organizations has approved...