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Children's Book Review: Alex & Penny In Egypt: The Mystery of the 9 Scarabs
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Oil Barrel Pyramid to be Built in UAE
Waleg.com
Pyramids abound in the Middle East. How would you feel if you were told that these thousand years pyramids are about to be added with one more? This is very likely because artist Christo and his wife Jeanne-Claude revealed their plan to create a new pyramid somewhere in the vast desert of UAE. But unlike the most admired Pyramid of Giza and other pyramids, this won’t be made of bricks and sand but of oil barrels! This planned pyramid of oil barrels which they called as the Mastaba project would be 150 meters high and would be composed of approximately 390,500 barrels, stacked right on top of each other! If this pyramid of oil barrels materializes, it’s said to survive for 5,000 years. They are still waiting for approval from the UAE government. Previously they have already tried building this pyramid in Texas and Netherlands but so far it has not become a reality. So they are hopeful about this new venture in the UAE.
Children's Book Review: Alex & Penny In Egypt: The Mystery of the 9 Scarabs
Craig Daily Press
It was translated into English by Sarah Ponting. The book is second in a series of “Alex & Penny” books. The first was “Alex & Penny Ballooning Over Italy.” That’s when the twins (possibly about 12 years of age) discovered the mysterious World Secret Agency. Now they’re going to be special agents for the agency.
Via a special screen in a magic computer, special director Cornelius Misterius gives Alex and Penny instructions. They are to investigate a secret tunnel in the Sphinx in Egypt.
So the twins board a special hot air balloon that’s equipped with a supersonic engine. They’re in Egypt in a flash.
At the Sphinx, Alex and Penny meet up with Nefer, an Egyptian boy from ancient Thebes, and his cat Mew. Nefer needs help which requires finding nine scarabs. The search takes the three youngsters (and Mew) all across ancient Egypt.
Learning about this time in history is the purpose of the book.
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Heritage Key (Owen Jarus) With photographs. Thanks to Owen Jarus for pointing me at the above article about recent work carried out at the pyramid at Seila. Here's a short extract. A Brigham Young team excavated the pyramid in the 1980’s and 1990’s....
- Egypt: 4,300-year-old Pyramid Discovered
CNN Archaeologists have discovered a new pyramid under the sands of Saqqara, an ancient burial site that remains largely unexplored and has yielded a string of unearthed pyramids in recent years, Egypt's antiquities chief announced Tuesday. The 4,300-year-old...
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The Inquirer This is another news editorial on "The Lost Pyramid", a sensational mega-documentary the History Channel is about to air. Using computer technology, they uncover and recreate a supposed fourth pyramid, taller than the Great Pyramid of Giza....
- Mysterious Egypt
American Chronicle (James Wood) We may sometimes classify misunderstood facts as being mysterious. I think that has been an important factor in the study of ancient Egypt. When skilled Egyptologists and archeologists are confronted with mega monuments...
- Travel: A Visit To Cairo
http://www.moneycontrol.com/india/news/travel/egypts-alluring-siren-song-/282284 "A set of three pyramids with the tallest being built by King Cheops and known as the Great Pyramid. When you finally see the Great Pyramid, one is left speechless because...