Egypt
The Telegraph, UK (Roya Nikkhah)
- Travel: Observing The Pilgrims
Living in Egypt blog (Maryanne Stroud Gabbani) I look at Maryanne Stroud Gabbani's blogs most days because they offer a great insight into her life in the rural outskirts of Cairo and Giza. Today she describes taking some visitors to the Giza plateau...
- Riddle Of The Pyramids
Al Ahram Weekly (Assam Deif) Speaking of Egypt, it is the Pyramids that spring to mind. Their grandeur, their mystery and their architecture have caused more debate than any other structure on Earth. Since the time of Herodotus geographers and historians...
- More Re Hyde Park Pyramid
Yacht Charters Magazine In celebration of the forthcoming opening of the "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" exhibition at The O2 on 15 November, Hyde Park today became home to a 45ft pyramid created by internationally acclaimed pop artist...
- The Pyramids Of Giza
New York Post (Jasmin K Williams) Two page piece looking at the pyramids of Giza. Nothing new, but quite informative if you know little about the pyramids. We've been marveling at this ancient wonder for thousands of years. Here's a look at The...
- Travel: A Visit To Giza And Abu Simbel
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,21549925-17102,00.htmlStandard description of a visit to the Giza plateau and Abu Simbel: "It's a 10-minute walk from the Le Meridien Pyramids hotel to their base. I soon discover I am not the only...
Egypt
Misc: Guilty secret inspires art
The Telegraph, UK (Roya Nikkhah)
British artist Andy Holden is to reveal how he stole a piece of the Egypt pyramids in a new exhibition at the Tate Britain in London.
The artist's guilty secret began with a seemingly innocent trip to Egypt.
Accompanying his father, who was there on business, Andy, then 12, was taken to the Great Pyramid of Giza: the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still surviving – relatively intact – and the oldest and largest of the pyramids at the Giza Necropolis.
"When we arrived at the pyramids, unthinkingly I broke off a lump of stone from the side of the Great Pyramid in Giza," said Mr Holden. "I got home and put it on a shelf in my room alongside a collection of other souvenirs I had as a kid, but when my parents found out, they were furious and it ended up becoming this terrible guilt object.
"I didn't tell anyone else what I had done, but it had been haunting me in the last few years, so I thought I'd try to undo the guilt by travelling back to Egypt and putting it back in its original spot."
"Consumed" by guilt, Mr Holden's attempts at reparation didn't end there: he also created a "colossal" replica of the rock. The sculpture is now featuring in a new exhibition at Tate Britain in London.
- Travel: Observing The Pilgrims
Living in Egypt blog (Maryanne Stroud Gabbani) I look at Maryanne Stroud Gabbani's blogs most days because they offer a great insight into her life in the rural outskirts of Cairo and Giza. Today she describes taking some visitors to the Giza plateau...
- Riddle Of The Pyramids
Al Ahram Weekly (Assam Deif) Speaking of Egypt, it is the Pyramids that spring to mind. Their grandeur, their mystery and their architecture have caused more debate than any other structure on Earth. Since the time of Herodotus geographers and historians...
- More Re Hyde Park Pyramid
Yacht Charters Magazine In celebration of the forthcoming opening of the "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" exhibition at The O2 on 15 November, Hyde Park today became home to a 45ft pyramid created by internationally acclaimed pop artist...
- The Pyramids Of Giza
New York Post (Jasmin K Williams) Two page piece looking at the pyramids of Giza. Nothing new, but quite informative if you know little about the pyramids. We've been marveling at this ancient wonder for thousands of years. Here's a look at The...
- Travel: A Visit To Giza And Abu Simbel
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,21549925-17102,00.htmlStandard description of a visit to the Giza plateau and Abu Simbel: "It's a 10-minute walk from the Le Meridien Pyramids hotel to their base. I soon discover I am not the only...