Egypt
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref)
- Egyptian Scientific Institute In Danger From Botched Restoration, Says Minister
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) Antiquities Minister Mohamed Ibrahim has called on the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) to halt restoration work at the Egyptian Scientific Institute in Cairo because it is not being conducted in an appropriate...
- Scholars Struggle To Preserve Egypt's Heritage
The Chronicle (Ursula Lindsey) When soldiers and protesters clashed in downtown Cairo in late December, the army's crackdown left at least 16 dead and hundreds injured. Another victim of the violence was the oldest scientific institute in Egypt, which...
- Action Taken To Restore Scientific Institute
Ahram Online (Nevine El Aref) A closed meeting with the army engineering section and the Arab Contractor Company a delegation with the Ministry of State for Antiquities (MSA) led by Mohamed Shiha head of the Projects Department is to be held tomorrow...
- The Burning Of The Institut D'egypte
This has been the biggest and saddest antiquities news story of the last two weeks. For those who haven't caught up with it, the Institute d'Egypte, a research centre set up by Napoleon, no less, was a victim of the riots and was set on fire....
- Exhibition: Bonaparte And Egypt... Fire And Light
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine el-Aref) The 1798 Egyptian campaign led by Napoleon Bonaparte was undoubtedly a military failure, but the battalion of 160 scientists -- and certain brilliant officers -- added up to a force that generated a celebrated episode...
Egypt
More re the L'Institut d'Egypte
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref)
The Ministry of State for Antiquities has selected Beit Al-Sennari (Sennari House) as the temporary location for the Egyptian Scientific Institute until its restoration is complete. All rescued books from the institute, burned during clashes between protesters and the army last month, have now been transferred for storage at the Sennari House in Cairo’s Sayeda Zeinab district.
Sennari House was the original location of the scientific institute established by Napoleon Bonaparte’s French expedition to Egypt in 1798 as a counterpart to the French Scientific Institute in Paris.
- Egyptian Scientific Institute In Danger From Botched Restoration, Says Minister
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) Antiquities Minister Mohamed Ibrahim has called on the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) to halt restoration work at the Egyptian Scientific Institute in Cairo because it is not being conducted in an appropriate...
- Scholars Struggle To Preserve Egypt's Heritage
The Chronicle (Ursula Lindsey) When soldiers and protesters clashed in downtown Cairo in late December, the army's crackdown left at least 16 dead and hundreds injured. Another victim of the violence was the oldest scientific institute in Egypt, which...
- Action Taken To Restore Scientific Institute
Ahram Online (Nevine El Aref) A closed meeting with the army engineering section and the Arab Contractor Company a delegation with the Ministry of State for Antiquities (MSA) led by Mohamed Shiha head of the Projects Department is to be held tomorrow...
- The Burning Of The Institut D'egypte
This has been the biggest and saddest antiquities news story of the last two weeks. For those who haven't caught up with it, the Institute d'Egypte, a research centre set up by Napoleon, no less, was a victim of the riots and was set on fire....
- Exhibition: Bonaparte And Egypt... Fire And Light
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine el-Aref) The 1798 Egyptian campaign led by Napoleon Bonaparte was undoubtedly a military failure, but the battalion of 160 scientists -- and certain brilliant officers -- added up to a force that generated a celebrated episode...