Egypt
Monsters and Critics
- Looting Of King Ramses Ii's Colossus Thwarted
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) Last night looters sneaked into the southern quarry of the upper Egyptian city of Aswan in an attempt to cut and remove the statue of King Ramses II. The statue is half buried in the sand as it was originally cut in red granite...
- The Miners' Goddess
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) As world attention was focussed on a gold and copper mine in Chile, it emerged that there may have been a failed bid to steal one of the remaining sandstone statues of the goddess Hathor, the ancient Egyptian protector...
- Photo For Today By Francis Lankester
Serabit el Khadim, Sinai There's an article about the restoration and documentation of the site by Nevine el-Aref on the Al Ahram Weekly website from earlier in 2009 For more information about the site see the Serabit el Khadim page Su Bayfield's...
- Photo For Today By Francis Lankester
Serabit el Khadim, Sinai There's an article about the restoration and documentation of the site by Nevine el-Aref on the Al Ahram Weekly website from earlier in 2009 For more information about the site see the Serabit el Khadim page Su Bayfield's...
- Sinai's Turquoise Goddess
Al Ahram Weekly A comprehensive restoration and documentation scheme is underway at a major temple and mine complex in Sinai, as Nevine El-Aref reports From pre-dynastic times, early Egyptians made their way to the Sinai Peninsula over land or across...
Egypt
Investigation of theft of Hathor statue
Monsters and Critics
Egyptian officials on Thursday were investigating the theft of a statue of the ancient goddess Hathor from a museum in South Sinai, after the piece was found in the desert a day earlier.
Prosecutors are interrogating security guards at the Serabit el- Khadim temple, where the statue of Hathor stood, security sources said.
- Looting Of King Ramses Ii's Colossus Thwarted
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) Last night looters sneaked into the southern quarry of the upper Egyptian city of Aswan in an attempt to cut and remove the statue of King Ramses II. The statue is half buried in the sand as it was originally cut in red granite...
- The Miners' Goddess
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) As world attention was focussed on a gold and copper mine in Chile, it emerged that there may have been a failed bid to steal one of the remaining sandstone statues of the goddess Hathor, the ancient Egyptian protector...
- Photo For Today By Francis Lankester
Serabit el Khadim, Sinai There's an article about the restoration and documentation of the site by Nevine el-Aref on the Al Ahram Weekly website from earlier in 2009 For more information about the site see the Serabit el Khadim page Su Bayfield's...
- Photo For Today By Francis Lankester
Serabit el Khadim, Sinai There's an article about the restoration and documentation of the site by Nevine el-Aref on the Al Ahram Weekly website from earlier in 2009 For more information about the site see the Serabit el Khadim page Su Bayfield's...
- Sinai's Turquoise Goddess
Al Ahram Weekly A comprehensive restoration and documentation scheme is underway at a major temple and mine complex in Sinai, as Nevine El-Aref reports From pre-dynastic times, early Egyptians made their way to the Sinai Peninsula over land or across...