Egypt
- Once Again, Camels And Horses At The Pyramids
Al Ahram Weekly (Zahi Hawass) The camel and horse touts in Giza are very upset with our new project to save the Pyramids. They do not understand what we are trying to do. Regrettably, many of them do things that harm tourists; I receive many letters from...
- Site Management: Giza
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) The site of Giza is one of the most visited sites in Egypt. Everyone who comes to Egypt visits the great pyramids that dominate the landscape here. In the past, the site was crowded, cars were everywhere and also people selling...
- The Pyramids Of Giza
New York Post (Jasmin K Williams) Two page piece looking at the pyramids of Giza. Nothing new, but quite informative if you know little about the pyramids. We've been marveling at this ancient wonder for thousands of years. Here's a look at The...
- Book: Giza Reports Volume 1
http://www.aeraweb.org/gizareports.asp Details of this new publication (inluding Contents listing), available in late Spring 2007, can be found on the above page: "Ancient Egypt Research Associates and the Giza Plateau Mapping Project are pleased to announce...
- Giza's Camel Touts
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0508/p20s01-litr.htmlAn article that takes a close look at the camel touts who work the Giza plateau, describing the business from the point of view of one camel tout: "Every half hour or so, a policeman spurs his snoozing...
Egypt
Pyramids of Giza in peril
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/208677
An eye-opening look at some of the problems facing conservation of the Giza pyramids of Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure, highlighting the problems caused by camel touts, but also raising everything from accidental damage caused by tourists, and the problems of Cairo's own environment:
"Doused with airborne pollution, rattled by the weight of encroaching traffic, tainted by underground sewage, and encrusted with the accumulated salt of thousands of perspiring tourists, the wonders of Egypt's past are mired in a struggle that threatens their very existence.
Nowhere is that conflict being waged with greater acrimony or conviction than here on the Plateau of Giza at Cairo's western edge, where this voracious African megalopolis has all but consumed the most famous limestone jewels in Egypt's ancient crown.
You wouldn't know it from the tourist posters, which invariably depict the pyramids and the Sphinx against a lonely backdrop of desert sand, but in fact these structures are now within a 30-metre camel-ride of traffic-choked urban avenues and six-storey apartment blocks, bristling with satellite dishes.
The one-time hamlet of Nazlet as-Samaan is now a teeming urban district with a population estimated at about 200,000, with environmental problems to match.
Can a huge, modern North African city, with its cars and trucks, its factories and filth, its burgeoning humanity and woefully inadequate services, successfully co-exist with the ancient tombs and monuments of long-ago pharaohs?"
Nowhere is that conflict being waged with greater acrimony or conviction than here on the Plateau of Giza at Cairo's western edge, where this voracious African megalopolis has all but consumed the most famous limestone jewels in Egypt's ancient crown.
You wouldn't know it from the tourist posters, which invariably depict the pyramids and the Sphinx against a lonely backdrop of desert sand, but in fact these structures are now within a 30-metre camel-ride of traffic-choked urban avenues and six-storey apartment blocks, bristling with satellite dishes.
The one-time hamlet of Nazlet as-Samaan is now a teeming urban district with a population estimated at about 200,000, with environmental problems to match.
Can a huge, modern North African city, with its cars and trucks, its factories and filth, its burgeoning humanity and woefully inadequate services, successfully co-exist with the ancient tombs and monuments of long-ago pharaohs?"
- Once Again, Camels And Horses At The Pyramids
Al Ahram Weekly (Zahi Hawass) The camel and horse touts in Giza are very upset with our new project to save the Pyramids. They do not understand what we are trying to do. Regrettably, many of them do things that harm tourists; I receive many letters from...
- Site Management: Giza
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) The site of Giza is one of the most visited sites in Egypt. Everyone who comes to Egypt visits the great pyramids that dominate the landscape here. In the past, the site was crowded, cars were everywhere and also people selling...
- The Pyramids Of Giza
New York Post (Jasmin K Williams) Two page piece looking at the pyramids of Giza. Nothing new, but quite informative if you know little about the pyramids. We've been marveling at this ancient wonder for thousands of years. Here's a look at The...
- Book: Giza Reports Volume 1
http://www.aeraweb.org/gizareports.asp Details of this new publication (inluding Contents listing), available in late Spring 2007, can be found on the above page: "Ancient Egypt Research Associates and the Giza Plateau Mapping Project are pleased to announce...
- Giza's Camel Touts
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0508/p20s01-litr.htmlAn article that takes a close look at the camel touts who work the Giza plateau, describing the business from the point of view of one camel tout: "Every half hour or so, a policeman spurs his snoozing...