Egypt
- Rising Groundwater Threatens Monuments
MCOT English News The fact that variations on this story keeps rearing its head is a sad reflection on the threat to many monuments in Egypt. As well as highlighting the problem at Giza, this piece suggests that solutions have been proposed, but were...
- Man-made Ecological Threats To Heritage
Egypt Daily Star News The foundations of the ancient Sphinx in the Giza district of Cairo could be in jeopardy due to a rise in the level of the area’s water table, or the level of underground water where the monument stands.Findings by a number of...
- Dewatering Project At Karnak And Luxor Temples
http://touregypt.net/teblog/luxornews/?p=320Dr Edwin Brock's lecture at the Mummification Museum in Luxor on the 5th November 2006 has been summarized at the above address by Jane Akshar, on her Luxor News Blog: "The project was inaugurated in January...
- 7 Most Endangered Wonders Of The World
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12115754/site/newsweek/"Dating back to the 14th century B.C., the Luxor temple complex on the west bank of the Nile River—which includes the Valley of the Kings, the Valley of the Queens, more than 40 temples and the tombs of...
- 5 On The Verge Of Vanishing
http://tinyurl.com/8soz5 (USA Today) A feature on the USA Today website picking out five world heritage and environmental areas currently under threat. One of those picked out is the West Bank at Luxor. This problem has been reported on a number of times,...
Egypt
Rising water threatens temples
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1702518,00.html
"Some of the world's most precious archaeological treasures - the ancient Egyptian tombs and temples at Luxor - are being devastated by salt water that is eating their foundations, scientists have discovered. The temples of Amun, Luxor and Karnak, designated World Heritage Sites, have survived 4,000 years of arid desert heat but are now being destroyed by rising ground water. . . . The crisis has been caused by several factors, including climate change and the breakdown of the area's ageing sewer system. However, the most important threat has involved the recent, massive intensification of farming along the Nile and the widespread planting of sugar cane, a plant that flourishes in saturated soil." The story quotes Hawass saying that it will be impossible to change farming practises and that engineering solutions will need to be found.
See the entire article on the Guardian Unlimited website, above.
- Rising Groundwater Threatens Monuments
MCOT English News The fact that variations on this story keeps rearing its head is a sad reflection on the threat to many monuments in Egypt. As well as highlighting the problem at Giza, this piece suggests that solutions have been proposed, but were...
- Man-made Ecological Threats To Heritage
Egypt Daily Star News The foundations of the ancient Sphinx in the Giza district of Cairo could be in jeopardy due to a rise in the level of the area’s water table, or the level of underground water where the monument stands.Findings by a number of...
- Dewatering Project At Karnak And Luxor Temples
http://touregypt.net/teblog/luxornews/?p=320Dr Edwin Brock's lecture at the Mummification Museum in Luxor on the 5th November 2006 has been summarized at the above address by Jane Akshar, on her Luxor News Blog: "The project was inaugurated in January...
- 7 Most Endangered Wonders Of The World
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12115754/site/newsweek/"Dating back to the 14th century B.C., the Luxor temple complex on the west bank of the Nile River—which includes the Valley of the Kings, the Valley of the Queens, more than 40 temples and the tombs of...
- 5 On The Verge Of Vanishing
http://tinyurl.com/8soz5 (USA Today) A feature on the USA Today website picking out five world heritage and environmental areas currently under threat. One of those picked out is the West Bank at Luxor. This problem has been reported on a number of times,...