Egypt
- Audio Interview With Fred Wendorf
The Archaeology Channel We are pleased to present an audio interview with Dr. Fred Wendorf, a principal figure in the history of American archaeology and for decades the leading researcher in the prehistory of northeastern Africa. This interview, titled...
- Some Drowned, Some Buried
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) On several occasions Zahi Hawass has announced that underwater investigations were planned for the Nile Valley. In this article Nevine El-Aref describes the recovery of artefacts from the riverbed at Aswan. It is surely...
- Egypt Plan To Green Sahara Desert Stirs Controversy
Reuters India This is about modern Egypt, but for anyone who is interested in Egypt and her deserts, this four page article about converting the desert into land suitable agricultural use and new settlements may be of interest. With only five percent...
- Down The Big River
http://www.geographical.co.uk/Geographical Magazine's January 2007 issue is featuring an article about the Nile: Down the big river"Winding some 6,695 kilometres from the heart of Africa to the Mediterranean Sea, the River Nile is the world's...
- History In Geological Time
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/print/2004/711/heritage.htm On the centenary of the opening of the Egyptian Geological Museum Al Ahram has an article talking about the history of geological expeditions and some of the great geologists who helped to clarify...
Egypt
Rushdi Said: The Desert Dream
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/print/2006/787/profile.htm
A profile of one of the greatest contributors to the understanding of Egypt's geological past, the context within which Egyptian prehistory unfolded: "Rushdi Said, 86, is more than a celebrated geologist -- one of Egypt's best known. During the reign of both late presidents Gamal Abdel-Nasser and Anwar El-Sadat, he was, even more significantly, a leading public figure, notably the head of the National Mining Organisation, later the Egyptian Geological and Survey Authority, the body responsible for surveying Egyptian deserts for mineral deposits. He has written a handful of books: The Geology of Egypt , The River Nile Geology , Hydrology and Utilisation -- attempts to reconstruct the history of the River Nile from its origins to its present, but also to ascertain the amount of water carried by the river during the course of its history . . . . For decades he has been a strong advocate of saving the Nile Valley from further degradation and opening up new frontiers for population settlement in the desert."
See the entire profile on the above page.
- Audio Interview With Fred Wendorf
The Archaeology Channel We are pleased to present an audio interview with Dr. Fred Wendorf, a principal figure in the history of American archaeology and for decades the leading researcher in the prehistory of northeastern Africa. This interview, titled...
- Some Drowned, Some Buried
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) On several occasions Zahi Hawass has announced that underwater investigations were planned for the Nile Valley. In this article Nevine El-Aref describes the recovery of artefacts from the riverbed at Aswan. It is surely...
- Egypt Plan To Green Sahara Desert Stirs Controversy
Reuters India This is about modern Egypt, but for anyone who is interested in Egypt and her deserts, this four page article about converting the desert into land suitable agricultural use and new settlements may be of interest. With only five percent...
- Down The Big River
http://www.geographical.co.uk/Geographical Magazine's January 2007 issue is featuring an article about the Nile: Down the big river"Winding some 6,695 kilometres from the heart of Africa to the Mediterranean Sea, the River Nile is the world's...
- History In Geological Time
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/print/2004/711/heritage.htm On the centenary of the opening of the Egyptian Geological Museum Al Ahram has an article talking about the history of geological expeditions and some of the great geologists who helped to clarify...