Egypt
New Museum for North Sinai
http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o070425z8.htm
"Al-Arish National Museum for North Sinai history will be opened by the Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni, next month. The museum occupies 2km square and will contain over 300 antiquities taken from eight other national museums, the Head of the Museum Sector, Mahmoud Mabrouk, said". There are a few more lines in the article.
Open Museum in Fayyoum
http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o070425z5.htm
"The Wadi el-Hitan area in Fayyoum is to be developed into the country's largest open museum for whales and fossils," said the Minister of State for Environmental Affairs, Maged George. He noted that this was part of a larger project to develop Wadi el-Rayan protectorate in order to conserve the environment for both scientific and tourism purposes. The project team consists of experts from Michigan University in the United States, the Egyptian Ministry of Environment, the Geological Survey Authority and Fayyoum Governorate".
This is the entire article from the State Information Service.
- 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...
- Egypt On Environmental Tourism Map
http://tinyurl.com/c5yap Minister of Tourism Ahmed el-Maghrabi and Minister of Environment Engineer Maged George agreed on boosting environmental tourism, particularly in the Western Desert, the Baharia oases and Fayyoum. El-Maghrabi stressed the necessity...
- Wadi Hitan
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/egyptian_mail/m2/An article about the prehistoric marine life in the Wadi Hitan by Hassan Saadallah. "It might be strange to know that Fayyoum, the large fertile depression in the desert, used to have a large number of whales,...
- Sinai Museum To Open Within Days
http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o041025d.htm"Al-Arish museum is getting ready to receive tourist as monuments pieces are being moved to it from eight other museums in preparation for its inauguration, expected to be within days. The construction works...
- Italian Embassy Symposium On Tourism In Egypt
http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o200925e.htm "Minister of Environment Maged George and Italy's Ambassador to Egypt Antonio Badini are to open on September 27 a symposium on promotion of tourism into Egypt under the rubrics of Other Egypt ...routes...
Egypt
New Museums in Sinai and Faiyum
New Museum for North Sinai
http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o070425z8.htm
"Al-Arish National Museum for North Sinai history will be opened by the Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni, next month. The museum occupies 2km square and will contain over 300 antiquities taken from eight other national museums, the Head of the Museum Sector, Mahmoud Mabrouk, said". There are a few more lines in the article.
Open Museum in Fayyoum
http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o070425z5.htm
"The Wadi el-Hitan area in Fayyoum is to be developed into the country's largest open museum for whales and fossils," said the Minister of State for Environmental Affairs, Maged George. He noted that this was part of a larger project to develop Wadi el-Rayan protectorate in order to conserve the environment for both scientific and tourism purposes. The project team consists of experts from Michigan University in the United States, the Egyptian Ministry of Environment, the Geological Survey Authority and Fayyoum Governorate".
This is the entire article from the State Information Service.
- 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...
- Egypt On Environmental Tourism Map
http://tinyurl.com/c5yap Minister of Tourism Ahmed el-Maghrabi and Minister of Environment Engineer Maged George agreed on boosting environmental tourism, particularly in the Western Desert, the Baharia oases and Fayyoum. El-Maghrabi stressed the necessity...
- Wadi Hitan
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/egyptian_mail/m2/An article about the prehistoric marine life in the Wadi Hitan by Hassan Saadallah. "It might be strange to know that Fayyoum, the large fertile depression in the desert, used to have a large number of whales,...
- Sinai Museum To Open Within Days
http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o041025d.htm"Al-Arish museum is getting ready to receive tourist as monuments pieces are being moved to it from eight other museums in preparation for its inauguration, expected to be within days. The construction works...
- Italian Embassy Symposium On Tourism In Egypt
http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o200925e.htm "Minister of Environment Maged George and Italy's Ambassador to Egypt Antonio Badini are to open on September 27 a symposium on promotion of tourism into Egypt under the rubrics of Other Egypt ...routes...