Egypt

Luxor information website

Luxor Egypt

Still harping on about Luxor, I stumbled across this website which is vaguely familiar but which I don't remember actually using before. For anyone planning a visit, it is stuffed full of useful information for visitors to Luxor, and has some great photos.

- Mansour Boraik
I had an email asking me for details about Mansour Boraik and his role in Luxor. Readers of Jane Akshar's Luxor blog will be very familiar with him, of course, but for those wondering about his background, he is currently Director General of Antiquities...

- Pharaoh's Splendour Online
Al Ahram Weekly (Nader Habib) As part of development plans for modern-day Luxor, tourist services recently went online. The project implements the February 2005 cooperation protocol between the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT)...

- Jane's World
More backlog! It is great to see how much news is emanating from Jane Akshar' Luxor News blog. Posts are shown by date in descending order (most recent first). This is just a sample of her posts. Obviously go to her site to stay up to date with all...

- Luxor News Blog
http://www.touregypt.net/teblog/luxornews/A new blog has been launched on the Tour Egypt website, which has news about Luxor, posted by a Luxor resident. It has massively helpful information about things like whether or not Nefertari's tomb is currently...

- Djehuty 2005 Dig Diary (in Spanish)
http://www.excavacionegipto.com/diario/diario05.jsp I was doing my usual Sunday morning trawl through my Egyptology Portal site, checking for updates and broken links, and I noticed that the Djehuty website has been updated with the 2005 dig diary. This...

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