Egypt
- 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...
- Discoveries At Karnak
Egyptian Gazette (story on this URL will expire shortly) Zahi Hawass, Egypt's archaeology supremo, yesterday announced the discovery of the remains of a 4,000-year-old dam near the Karnak Temple in Luxor. Located a few metres from the ancient temple,...
- 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...
- Usaid Funding For Luxor
http://tinyurl.com/kol8r (Egypt State Information Service) "The US Agency for International Development (USAID) has allocated $ 40 million to restore and develop Luxor's Western Bank. The project will be carried out in cooperation with the (SCA) Supreme...
- Biggest Tomb At Pharonic Thebes's Cemetery Renovated
http://tinyurl.com/dbvs8 (Egyptian State Information Service) "Minister of Culture Farouq Hosni has approved carrying out an urgent project to renovate and develop the biggest tomb at the Luxor Pharaonic cemetery in Thebes. The project will be implemented...
Egypt
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 specific lanes for tourists to head off any damage to the monuments, Hawwas told reporters after a meeting of an Egyptian-French committee implementing the project. He added that bazaars, parking lots and cafeterias will be built a distance form the temple to serve tourists without affecting the temple. Hawwas said part of the 50 million-pound budget will be paid in compensation for affected families."
At the same time, Hawass has announced that a nearby quay will be excavated: "Hawwas further said that an Egyptian-French expedition will embark on excavation of a port on the River Nile near Karnak. He told reporters during a tour of the upper Egyptian city of Luxor that ancient Egyptians used the quay to transfer stones from one place to another."
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 specific lanes for tourists to head off any damage to the monuments, Hawwas told reporters after a meeting of an Egyptian-French committee implementing the project. He added that bazaars, parking lots and cafeterias will be built a distance form the temple to serve tourists without affecting the temple. Hawwas said part of the 50 million-pound budget will be paid in compensation for affected families."
At the same time, Hawass has announced that a nearby quay will be excavated: "Hawwas further said that an Egyptian-French expedition will embark on excavation of a port on the River Nile near Karnak. He told reporters during a tour of the upper Egyptian city of Luxor that ancient Egyptians used the quay to transfer stones from one place to another."
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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...
- Discoveries At Karnak
Egyptian Gazette (story on this URL will expire shortly) Zahi Hawass, Egypt's archaeology supremo, yesterday announced the discovery of the remains of a 4,000-year-old dam near the Karnak Temple in Luxor. Located a few metres from the ancient temple,...
- 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...
- Usaid Funding For Luxor
http://tinyurl.com/kol8r (Egypt State Information Service) "The US Agency for International Development (USAID) has allocated $ 40 million to restore and develop Luxor's Western Bank. The project will be carried out in cooperation with the (SCA) Supreme...
- Biggest Tomb At Pharonic Thebes's Cemetery Renovated
http://tinyurl.com/dbvs8 (Egyptian State Information Service) "Minister of Culture Farouq Hosni has approved carrying out an urgent project to renovate and develop the biggest tomb at the Luxor Pharaonic cemetery in Thebes. The project will be implemented...