Egypt
- Tour Guides At The Giza Ask For Tourists To Return
The Telegraph, UK (Nick Meo) Some held up signs with a Valentine's Day theme saying "Egypt loves you" and insisted that it was safe for foreigners to come back. The tourist industry has been badly hit by weeks of turmoil at the peak of the holiday...
- Egyptian Archaeologists To Help With Bosnian Pyramdis
http://www.dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=6243"Approximately two years ago, American archaeologist Semir Osmanagich and his team made the astounding discovery of a series of pyramids in Bosnia. Last Sunday, speaking at the Supreme Council of...
- Archaeology Magazine July/august
http://www.archaeology.org/0607/index.html The new edition of Archaeology is now available, and the website has been updated with some online content too, of which the following may be of interest. See the following URLs for the full accounts. Review:...
- More On The Bosnian Pyramids
http://tinyurl.com/e6kq4 (iol.co.za) I'm by no means sure that this blog is right the place to cover this item, but as a number of people have already emailed me about it, I thought I'd start adding the more informed of the news items covering...
- Saturday Trivia (bosnian Pyramids - Updated)
Bosnian Pyramids Not really trivia, but not very relevant to Egyptology either, so in the absence of any trivia this week, I've put the latest news re the Bosnian pyramids (three of them now, suggested by satellite photographs) in the trivia slot....
Egypt
More on the Bosnian pyramids
http://tinyurl.com/r3vt7 (telegraph.co.uk)
I'm still not sure that I should be covering this story on this site, but still - it's a very slow news day today, and a number of visitors to the site have expressed interest, so here goes with the latest news. This article, from the UK's Telegraph broadsheet gives one of the sceptical views of the situation:
"It has spawned a T-shirt, souvenir and hotel industry, drawn thousands of visitors and volunteers every weekend, and become a rare symbol of national unity in a country riven by ruinous sectarian war. Last week, it won the backing of Unesco, the world's foremost educational and cultural body. There is just one thing missing from Bosnia's so-called Pyramid of the Sun, acclaimed by some as the most important archaeological discovery in Europe for more than a century - a pyramid.
Despite the fact that Semir Osmanagic, who claims to have discovered it, has no formal archaeological training and believes, among other things, that the South American Mayans descended from visitors from outer space, more people apparently want to believe his theory that Bosnia is home to giant pyramids than to debunk it."
See the above page for the rest of the story.
- Tour Guides At The Giza Ask For Tourists To Return
The Telegraph, UK (Nick Meo) Some held up signs with a Valentine's Day theme saying "Egypt loves you" and insisted that it was safe for foreigners to come back. The tourist industry has been badly hit by weeks of turmoil at the peak of the holiday...
- Egyptian Archaeologists To Help With Bosnian Pyramdis
http://www.dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=6243"Approximately two years ago, American archaeologist Semir Osmanagich and his team made the astounding discovery of a series of pyramids in Bosnia. Last Sunday, speaking at the Supreme Council of...
- Archaeology Magazine July/august
http://www.archaeology.org/0607/index.html The new edition of Archaeology is now available, and the website has been updated with some online content too, of which the following may be of interest. See the following URLs for the full accounts. Review:...
- More On The Bosnian Pyramids
http://tinyurl.com/e6kq4 (iol.co.za) I'm by no means sure that this blog is right the place to cover this item, but as a number of people have already emailed me about it, I thought I'd start adding the more informed of the news items covering...
- Saturday Trivia (bosnian Pyramids - Updated)
Bosnian Pyramids Not really trivia, but not very relevant to Egyptology either, so in the absence of any trivia this week, I've put the latest news re the Bosnian pyramids (three of them now, suggested by satellite photographs) in the trivia slot....