Egypt
- Luxor News - Jane Akshar
Luxor News by Jane Akshar Jane has been very busy with her blog recently and has posted some good newsworthy items as well as some lovely photographs. Amongst the highlights are: A visit to the Early Dynastic tombs at Umm el-Qaab (Abydos)Recent work at...
- Excavations At The Madrasa Area Near Karnak
http://touregypt.net/teblog/luxornews/?p=538 Jane Akshar's has posted some good photographs of the excavation at Madrasa on her Luxor News Blog: "If you remember Mansour Boraiks lecture about the SCA excavations http://touregypt.net/teblog/luxornews/?p=433...
- Mummification Museum Lecture - Chicago House Report - Ray Johnson
http://touregypt.net/teblog/luxornews/?p=510 Thanks very much to Jane Akshar for her lecture notes from the last of the season's lectures at Luxor's Mummification Museum, which is a progress report about the methods and activities of the Chicago...
- Luxor News
http://touregypt.net/teblog/luxornews/ Jane Akshar has been updating her blog, as usual, with some excellent information about current activities in Luxor. See the following web pages: Mummification Museum Lecture - Marriage Stele of Ramses II - Charles...
- Mummification Museum Lecture
Here we have a lecture by Mr. Mansour Boraik on Karnak temple and a possible tomb in the Valley of Kings. http://touregypt.net/teblog/luxornews/?p=761 Valley of Kings: http://touregypt.net/teblog/luxornews/?p=748...
Egypt
Mummification Museum lecture - Recent SCA Excavations
http://touregypt.net/teblog/luxornews/?p=433
Thanks as usual to Jane Akshar for posting her notes from the Mummification Museum lectures that take place in Luxor. Her most recent notes are from Mansour Boraik's lecture Recent Excavations by the SCA (Supreme Council of Antiquities):
"Mansour Boraik was introduced (extremely wittily) by one of his colleagues. He started his career as an Inspector on the Giza Plateau and was the right hand man of Zahi Hawass for many years. He found the Valley of the Workers where the pyramid builders lived. He moved from Giza to Aswan to Sohag and came to Luxor 15 months ago.
He explained that when he arrived here there were many national projects going on and it was a challenge for the Inspectorate to manage all of then. At that time these were mainly on the East Bank but recently they have had the added challenge of the removal of Gurna Village on the West Bank. There is a budget of 600 million pounds for these projects.
He arranged for Mark Lehner to come to Luxor and to train the Inspectors. Also Ray Johnson of Chicago House has contributed in to professional development of the Inspectorate.
Mansour gave a big thanks to all his colleagues in the inspectorate and foreign missions and it is was worthwhile noting the respect shown to Mansour by the extremely high turnout. I have not seen so many people at a lecture since Otto Schaden gave his talk
The lecture was divided into the 4 areas currently under excavation
He explained that when he arrived here there were many national projects going on and it was a challenge for the Inspectorate to manage all of then. At that time these were mainly on the East Bank but recently they have had the added challenge of the removal of Gurna Village on the West Bank. There is a budget of 600 million pounds for these projects.
He arranged for Mark Lehner to come to Luxor and to train the Inspectors. Also Ray Johnson of Chicago House has contributed in to professional development of the Inspectorate.
Mansour gave a big thanks to all his colleagues in the inspectorate and foreign missions and it is was worthwhile noting the respect shown to Mansour by the extremely high turnout. I have not seen so many people at a lecture since Otto Schaden gave his talk
The lecture was divided into the 4 areas currently under excavation
- Sphinx Avenue
- Behind Mubarak Library
- El Madrassa
- Quay"
See the above page for the full story.
- Luxor News - Jane Akshar
Luxor News by Jane Akshar Jane has been very busy with her blog recently and has posted some good newsworthy items as well as some lovely photographs. Amongst the highlights are: A visit to the Early Dynastic tombs at Umm el-Qaab (Abydos)Recent work at...
- Excavations At The Madrasa Area Near Karnak
http://touregypt.net/teblog/luxornews/?p=538 Jane Akshar's has posted some good photographs of the excavation at Madrasa on her Luxor News Blog: "If you remember Mansour Boraiks lecture about the SCA excavations http://touregypt.net/teblog/luxornews/?p=433...
- Mummification Museum Lecture - Chicago House Report - Ray Johnson
http://touregypt.net/teblog/luxornews/?p=510 Thanks very much to Jane Akshar for her lecture notes from the last of the season's lectures at Luxor's Mummification Museum, which is a progress report about the methods and activities of the Chicago...
- Luxor News
http://touregypt.net/teblog/luxornews/ Jane Akshar has been updating her blog, as usual, with some excellent information about current activities in Luxor. See the following web pages: Mummification Museum Lecture - Marriage Stele of Ramses II - Charles...
- Mummification Museum Lecture
Here we have a lecture by Mr. Mansour Boraik on Karnak temple and a possible tomb in the Valley of Kings. http://touregypt.net/teblog/luxornews/?p=761 Valley of Kings: http://touregypt.net/teblog/luxornews/?p=748...