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- More Re Latest Discoveries At Karnak
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) With photograph A 250-METRE-long embankment, a quay and some Ptolemaic baths are the most recent discoveries at Karnak Temples, Nevine El-Aref reports. Coincidence always makes for important discoveries. It led to Tutankhamun's...
- How Pharaoh Sailed To Karnak
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) History has a special scent and taste at Karnak Temple. The emotions it evokes are powerful and timeless. Inside the lofty pylons is amassed an unsurpassed assembly of soaring obelisks, awe-inspiring chapels and hushed...
- 4th Stage Of Project On Discovering Route Of Luxor's Rams Road Kicks Off
http://tinyurl.com/32yh32 (sis.gov.eg) Zahi Hawwas, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), said on 16/5/2007 that the fourth stage of a project on discovering the route of the Road of Rams at Luxor kicked off. The Rams Road is...
- Ancient Egyptian Flood Prevention At Karnak Temple
http://www.dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=6798"Remains of an ancient Egyptian wall used to prevent the leakage of the Nile flood waters from spreading over the Karnak temple in Luxor were discovered on Thursday at the temple's eastern side,...
- News From Karnak
http://tinyurl.com/zovvm (Egypt State Information Service) Zahi Hawass has announced that heritage management work will carried out at Karnak by an Egyptian-French team, to protect the monuments from protential damage from tourism: "The project will include...
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More re new discoveries at Karnak
Egypt State Information Service
The Egyptian archaeological mission unearthed a 250-meter-long the big dam which had been built to protect Karnak Temple against the risk of floods and the second river port built by the ancient Egyptians to facilitate visits to the ancient temple.
In statements on Monday, Dr Zahi Hawwas, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities said that the mission discovered last year the first river port of Karnak, which consists of a huge ramp leading to the ancient Nile River, used to bring stones and sacrifice into the temple.
King Taharqa (690-664 BC), Nubian pharaoh during the 25th dynasty, built a royal slope in the middle of the ramp to divide it into three sections, Hawwas added.
- More Re Latest Discoveries At Karnak
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) With photograph A 250-METRE-long embankment, a quay and some Ptolemaic baths are the most recent discoveries at Karnak Temples, Nevine El-Aref reports. Coincidence always makes for important discoveries. It led to Tutankhamun's...
- How Pharaoh Sailed To Karnak
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) History has a special scent and taste at Karnak Temple. The emotions it evokes are powerful and timeless. Inside the lofty pylons is amassed an unsurpassed assembly of soaring obelisks, awe-inspiring chapels and hushed...
- 4th Stage Of Project On Discovering Route Of Luxor's Rams Road Kicks Off
http://tinyurl.com/32yh32 (sis.gov.eg) Zahi Hawwas, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), said on 16/5/2007 that the fourth stage of a project on discovering the route of the Road of Rams at Luxor kicked off. The Rams Road is...
- Ancient Egyptian Flood Prevention At Karnak Temple
http://www.dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=6798"Remains of an ancient Egyptian wall used to prevent the leakage of the Nile flood waters from spreading over the Karnak temple in Luxor were discovered on Thursday at the temple's eastern side,...
- News From Karnak
http://tinyurl.com/zovvm (Egypt State Information Service) Zahi Hawass has announced that heritage management work will carried out at Karnak by an Egyptian-French team, to protect the monuments from protential damage from tourism: "The project will include...