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- Largest Whale Skeleton Found At Siwa Oasis
Al Masry Al Youm With photos. It looks as though these remains date to the same period (and were therefore probably part of the same coastline) as the Faiyum remains of whale, shark and mangrove in the Wadi el-Hitan (Valley of Whales). The Environment...
- Valley Of The Whales - Wadi Al Hitan
Al Ahram Weekly (Mahmoud Bakr) In an event organised by the Ministry of Environment, Mrs Suzanne Mubarak inaugurated the Valley of the Whales Protected Area in Fayoum. The valley is part of the Wadi Al-Rayan Protected Area, 150km southeast of Cairo and...
- The Faiyum To Become A Tourist Site For Prehistoric Whales
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) In the parched desert on the westernmost edge of the Fayoum Depression stretches Wadi Al-Hitan (Whales Valley), its invaluable fossil remains of the earliest and now extinct sub-order of whales, the Archaeoceti, scattered...
- Belgian Response Re Allegations Of Damage To Fossil
Afriquenligne In Brussels, a government spokesman recognised that Belgian diplomats effectively drove in the classified site, without having left the road however, which rules out according to him, the possibility of destroying the whale fossil. Belgian...
- Wadi El-hitan
http://www.aapg.org/explorer/2006/01jan/whale_valley.cfmAn article about the Eocene 406 whale fossils preserved in the Faiyum Depression at Wadi Hitan (Whale Valley), an area recently designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO: "The great expanse was...
Egypt
More re damage to Wadi Hitan whales
Daily Comet
Egypt Egyptian authorities have accused Belgian diplomats of damaging a 40 million-year-old whale fossil when they allegedly drove over the remains in a protected desert area, an official said Monday. Belgian officials denied any damage was done.
Mohamed Ibrahim, an official in the Ministry of Environment, said the diplomats in four-wheel-drive vehicles ran over the fossil in July after ignoring signs warning visitors not to drive in the Wadi el-Hitan, or Valley of the Whales, protected area and UNESCO World Heritage site located about 93 miles outside of Cairo.
The Belgian Foreign Ministry and its embassy in Cairo denied the vehicles caused any damage to the fossil. Foreign Ministry spokesman Marc Michielsen said the two diplomatic-plated all-terrain vehicles were in the area but "did not leave the road." "They were not aware that the area was a protected area," Michielsen said. "It seems the area was not cordoned off, and no notice or guards were present."
Egyptian and Belgian authorities both said the incident took place in July. It was unclear why Egyptian officials waited until now to make the allegations.
- Largest Whale Skeleton Found At Siwa Oasis
Al Masry Al Youm With photos. It looks as though these remains date to the same period (and were therefore probably part of the same coastline) as the Faiyum remains of whale, shark and mangrove in the Wadi el-Hitan (Valley of Whales). The Environment...
- Valley Of The Whales - Wadi Al Hitan
Al Ahram Weekly (Mahmoud Bakr) In an event organised by the Ministry of Environment, Mrs Suzanne Mubarak inaugurated the Valley of the Whales Protected Area in Fayoum. The valley is part of the Wadi Al-Rayan Protected Area, 150km southeast of Cairo and...
- The Faiyum To Become A Tourist Site For Prehistoric Whales
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) In the parched desert on the westernmost edge of the Fayoum Depression stretches Wadi Al-Hitan (Whales Valley), its invaluable fossil remains of the earliest and now extinct sub-order of whales, the Archaeoceti, scattered...
- Belgian Response Re Allegations Of Damage To Fossil
Afriquenligne In Brussels, a government spokesman recognised that Belgian diplomats effectively drove in the classified site, without having left the road however, which rules out according to him, the possibility of destroying the whale fossil. Belgian...
- Wadi El-hitan
http://www.aapg.org/explorer/2006/01jan/whale_valley.cfmAn article about the Eocene 406 whale fossils preserved in the Faiyum Depression at Wadi Hitan (Whale Valley), an area recently designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO: "The great expanse was...