Egypt
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref)
- Rising Water: A Necessary Evil?
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) Can the new pumping system on the Giza Plateau help reduce damage to the Sphinx caused by leaking subterranean water? Nevine El-Aref looks at this, and what caused the high water level Within the framework of the Ministry...
- Antiquities Authority Starts Pumping Out Drainage Water From Under The Sphinx
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) This week, Giza Inspectorate operated 18 water pump machines to pump out subterranean water that has accumulated under the Sphinx. The machines are distributed over the Giza plateau according to a map showing the areas where...
- Colossi Of Memnon To Be Restored
Ahram Online (Nevine El Aref) In collaboration with the European archaeological mission, the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) is undertaking a comprehensive project to restore the colossi of Memnon on Luxor’s west bank. The project aims to return...
- More Re Lighting On Luxor's West Bank
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) THE NEW lighting system on the west bank of the Nile in Luxor is in operation, providing a dramatic view of the famous monuments in the area, Nevine El-Aref reports. The night landscape on the west bank has totally changed....
- Lord Mayor Of Memphis
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) A colossus of an ancient Egyptian deity in Luxor, an Umayyad coin in Wadi Al-Natroun and the tomb of a 19th-Dynasty mayor of Memphis at Saqqara are the most recent discoveries in Egypt, Nevine El-Aref reports At the end...
Egypt
Project resumed in Luxor to protect temples from subterranean water
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref)
Following nine months of delay, an American-Egyptian mission responsible for lowering ground water at archaeological sites in Luxor resumed its work today. The project aims to decrease the subterranean water level that has affected the foundation stones of five temples in Luxor: Karnak and Luxor temples on the east bank, and Seti I, the Ramessium, and Merneptah and Haremhab on the west bank.
Today, to mark the resumption, the secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities Mostafa Amine, U.S. Ambassador to Egypt Anne Patterson, Governor of Luxor Ezzat Saad, and the head of the National Authority for Drinking Water and Sanitation Mohamed Mohsen inaugurated the project.
- Rising Water: A Necessary Evil?
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) Can the new pumping system on the Giza Plateau help reduce damage to the Sphinx caused by leaking subterranean water? Nevine El-Aref looks at this, and what caused the high water level Within the framework of the Ministry...
- Antiquities Authority Starts Pumping Out Drainage Water From Under The Sphinx
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) This week, Giza Inspectorate operated 18 water pump machines to pump out subterranean water that has accumulated under the Sphinx. The machines are distributed over the Giza plateau according to a map showing the areas where...
- Colossi Of Memnon To Be Restored
Ahram Online (Nevine El Aref) In collaboration with the European archaeological mission, the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) is undertaking a comprehensive project to restore the colossi of Memnon on Luxor’s west bank. The project aims to return...
- More Re Lighting On Luxor's West Bank
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) THE NEW lighting system on the west bank of the Nile in Luxor is in operation, providing a dramatic view of the famous monuments in the area, Nevine El-Aref reports. The night landscape on the west bank has totally changed....
- Lord Mayor Of Memphis
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) A colossus of an ancient Egyptian deity in Luxor, an Umayyad coin in Wadi Al-Natroun and the tomb of a 19th-Dynasty mayor of Memphis at Saqqara are the most recent discoveries in Egypt, Nevine El-Aref reports At the end...