Egypt
- Donkey Dna
EurekAlert Genetic investigators say the partnership between people and the ancestors of today's donkeys was sealed not by monarchs trying to establish kingdoms, but by mobile, pastoral people who had to recruit animals to help them survive the harsh...
- Feature: Return Of The Sacred Ibis
Egypt Today (Richard Hoath) Egypt Today's regular natural history feature looks at the Ibis and discusses the possible return to Egypt of the type of ibis which was identified with the ancient Egyptian deity Thoth. The ancient Egyptians venerated...
- St Catherine's National Park
Egyptian Gazette N.B. The story on this page will expire shortly. In mid-South Sinai lies the Saint Catherine's Protected Area, one of the areas of the world with the greatest biological diversity.The basis of this National Park's rationale is...
- Daily Photo: Birds At Aswan
I'm still in my Aswan 2007 folder, so here are some photographs of birds seen at Aswan in March 2007. Egret Pied Kingfisher Osprey Little Green Bee Eater I've looked these up in Patrick Houlihan's excllent The Birds of Ancient Egypt (1986)....
- Archaeological Find Links Syria And Egypt
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7005269998 "An important archaeological dig in southern Syria found evidence of extensive trade between ancient Egypt and Syria during the middle and old Bronze Age. An excavation team at Tel al-Dibbeh in Sweida,...
Egypt
Revered Ibis surviving (just) in Syria
http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10927
"Scientists have tagged three northern bald ibis, among the last survivors of a species of Middle Eastern bird once so revered that it had its own ancient Egyptian hieroglyph, in an effort to save them from extinction. Only 13 of the birds remain in Syria, Britain's Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and the conservation agency BirdLife International said in a news release. The birds, with their distinctive black Mohican-style plumage and long, downward-curved red bills, were once revered by pharaohs and were found throughout the Middle East, northern Africa and the European Alps. They are now classified as critically endangered, the highest level of threat, by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. Until four years ago the species was thought to be extinct in Syria. The only other wild population is in Morocco."
- Donkey Dna
EurekAlert Genetic investigators say the partnership between people and the ancestors of today's donkeys was sealed not by monarchs trying to establish kingdoms, but by mobile, pastoral people who had to recruit animals to help them survive the harsh...
- Feature: Return Of The Sacred Ibis
Egypt Today (Richard Hoath) Egypt Today's regular natural history feature looks at the Ibis and discusses the possible return to Egypt of the type of ibis which was identified with the ancient Egyptian deity Thoth. The ancient Egyptians venerated...
- St Catherine's National Park
Egyptian Gazette N.B. The story on this page will expire shortly. In mid-South Sinai lies the Saint Catherine's Protected Area, one of the areas of the world with the greatest biological diversity.The basis of this National Park's rationale is...
- Daily Photo: Birds At Aswan
I'm still in my Aswan 2007 folder, so here are some photographs of birds seen at Aswan in March 2007. Egret Pied Kingfisher Osprey Little Green Bee Eater I've looked these up in Patrick Houlihan's excllent The Birds of Ancient Egypt (1986)....
- Archaeological Find Links Syria And Egypt
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7005269998 "An important archaeological dig in southern Syria found evidence of extensive trade between ancient Egypt and Syria during the middle and old Bronze Age. An excavation team at Tel al-Dibbeh in Sweida,...