Egypt
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref)
- More Re Opening Of Medinet Maadi
Gadling Last week a new ancient site opened to the public in Egypt--a temple of the crocodile god Sobek. Medinet Madi is located in Egypt's Faiyum region, a fertile area around a lake at the end of a branch of the Nile called Bahr Yusuf ("The River...
- Medinet Madi Featured Crocodile Nursery
Discovery News (Rossella Lorenzi) With photo of the heavily restored site. Egyptian authorities put another archaeological site on the country’s tourist map yesterday by opening a visitor center at Madinet Madi in the Fayoum region south of Cairo. Founded...
- Progetto Di Cooperazione Tecnica Fra L'italia E L'egitto Per La Creazione Di Un Parco Archeo-naturalistico (wady El Rayan E Medinet Madi)
Archaeogate Il 28 ottobre 2008 con la firma del nuovo contratto fra l'Università di Pisa – Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche del Mondo Antico ed il Progetto ISSEMM, è ufficialmente iniziata l'ultima fase di questo importante Progetto di Cooperazione...
- First Bowling Hall In Ancient Egypt
http://tinyurl.com/2fv6ko (sis.gov.eg) The Italian antiquities mission working in Kom Madi area in Fayoum governorate, south of Cairo, discovered a bowling-like hall dating back to the Ptolemaic age. The hall was discovered during excavations at a building...
- Archaeological Discoveries In The Fayoum And Luxor
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/793/hr1.htmNevine El-Aref again, this time on the subject of two areas of Egypt where important discoveries have been made this archaeological season: "Fayoum and Luxor are two magnificent Upper Egyptian regions with rich...
Egypt
Madinet Madi now on the Egypt tourism map
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref)
The Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs Zahi Hawass and Italian Ambassador to Egypt Claudio Pacifico will be celebrating the end of the second phase of the Madinet Madi Development Project in the Fayoum governorate, with the opening of its visitor centre, Sunday.
This project is part of a broader development plan called the Institutional Support to the Supreme Council of Antiquities for Environmental Monitoring and Management of cultural heritage sites (ISSEMM), which began in 2005. It was made possible by a generous grant of €3,500,000 from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Italy.
Madinet Madi is one of the most important archaeological sites in the Fayoum region. It was founded during the reigns of Amenemhat III (c 1981-1952 BC) and Amenemhat IV (c 1814-1805 BC) of the 12th Dynasty (c 1981-1802 BC). It contains the ruins of the only Middle Kingdom (c 2030-1802 BC) temple in Egypt. This temple was dedicated to the cobra-headed goddess, Renenutet, and the crocodile-headed god, Sobek of Scedet, patron god of the region and its capitol, Scedet. During the Ptolemaic period (332-30 BC), the temple was enlarged and the city enhanced.
Since 1978, the University of Pisa has carried out exploration work at Medinet Madi.
- More Re Opening Of Medinet Maadi
Gadling Last week a new ancient site opened to the public in Egypt--a temple of the crocodile god Sobek. Medinet Madi is located in Egypt's Faiyum region, a fertile area around a lake at the end of a branch of the Nile called Bahr Yusuf ("The River...
- Medinet Madi Featured Crocodile Nursery
Discovery News (Rossella Lorenzi) With photo of the heavily restored site. Egyptian authorities put another archaeological site on the country’s tourist map yesterday by opening a visitor center at Madinet Madi in the Fayoum region south of Cairo. Founded...
- Progetto Di Cooperazione Tecnica Fra L'italia E L'egitto Per La Creazione Di Un Parco Archeo-naturalistico (wady El Rayan E Medinet Madi)
Archaeogate Il 28 ottobre 2008 con la firma del nuovo contratto fra l'Università di Pisa – Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche del Mondo Antico ed il Progetto ISSEMM, è ufficialmente iniziata l'ultima fase di questo importante Progetto di Cooperazione...
- First Bowling Hall In Ancient Egypt
http://tinyurl.com/2fv6ko (sis.gov.eg) The Italian antiquities mission working in Kom Madi area in Fayoum governorate, south of Cairo, discovered a bowling-like hall dating back to the Ptolemaic age. The hall was discovered during excavations at a building...
- Archaeological Discoveries In The Fayoum And Luxor
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/793/hr1.htmNevine El-Aref again, this time on the subject of two areas of Egypt where important discoveries have been made this archaeological season: "Fayoum and Luxor are two magnificent Upper Egyptian regions with rich...