Egypt
Egyptian Gazette
- Trivia: More Re Pharaoh Floating Down Thames
Yahoo! News Thanks to Geoff Carter for letting me know that there's a photograph accompanying the above piece about the Lego pharaoh which was transported down the Thames earlier this week. The photograph shows the pharaoh in front of Tower Bridge....
- A Quiet, Safe Place For The Pharaoh?
Egyptian Gazette N.B. story will expire in the next few days on the above address The transport of the giant granite statue of ancient Egyptian Pharaoh, Ramses II, from Ramses Square, downtown Cairo on August 25, 2006, where it stood for more than 50...
- Ramesses In Custody
Egypt Daily Star News There's a rather sad photograph on the above page, showing the statue of Ramesses II in its new location awaiting the construction of the new Grand Museum of Egypt (the most recent estimate for which I have seen is 2010). Here's...
- Stone Man Walking
http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=7096Summary of the Ramesses II twin of the Mit Rahina statue being moved from the square beside the railway station to a new and less polluted location in Giza. It has been unexpected but super to see the...
- More Re Dry Run For Ramesses Statue Removal
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/806/eg2.htm"It took eight hours for a replica of the 125- tonne red granite statue of Ramses II to make its overnight journey from Tahrir Square to the planned Grand Egyptian Museum overlooking the Giza plateau. The move...
Egypt
Photograph - Anubis statue in Trafalgar Square
Egyptian Gazette
I would normally have saved this for Saturday Trivia, but the story on the page will change very soon, so it is now or never. The page shows a photograph of the Anubis statue which, ahving been transported up the Thames, is now standing proud in Trafalgar Square in London (U.K.). I have no idea why this little story has captured the public's imagination on a fairly global scale, but it seems to be nearly as popular as the transportation of Ramesses from the forecort of Cairo's main railway station to Giza. Bizarre, given that it is really just a giant 3-d advertising billboard! I have to be in town twice next week, so I shall try to go and inspect it in person. All very silly :-).
- Trivia: More Re Pharaoh Floating Down Thames
Yahoo! News Thanks to Geoff Carter for letting me know that there's a photograph accompanying the above piece about the Lego pharaoh which was transported down the Thames earlier this week. The photograph shows the pharaoh in front of Tower Bridge....
- A Quiet, Safe Place For The Pharaoh?
Egyptian Gazette N.B. story will expire in the next few days on the above address The transport of the giant granite statue of ancient Egyptian Pharaoh, Ramses II, from Ramses Square, downtown Cairo on August 25, 2006, where it stood for more than 50...
- Ramesses In Custody
Egypt Daily Star News There's a rather sad photograph on the above page, showing the statue of Ramesses II in its new location awaiting the construction of the new Grand Museum of Egypt (the most recent estimate for which I have seen is 2010). Here's...
- Stone Man Walking
http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=7096Summary of the Ramesses II twin of the Mit Rahina statue being moved from the square beside the railway station to a new and less polluted location in Giza. It has been unexpected but super to see the...
- More Re Dry Run For Ramesses Statue Removal
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/806/eg2.htm"It took eight hours for a replica of the 125- tonne red granite statue of Ramses II to make its overnight journey from Tahrir Square to the planned Grand Egyptian Museum overlooking the Giza plateau. The move...