Egypt
Luxor News Blog (Jane Akshar)
See the above page for Jane's complete post.
- Project Resumed In Luxor To Protect Temples From Subterranean Water
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) Following nine months of delay, an American-Egyptian mission responsible for lowering ground water at archaeological sites in Luxor resumed its work today. The project aims to decrease the subterranean water level that has...
- Keeping The Great Sphinx’s Paws Dry
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) Includes diagrams, photographs and a map. Perhaps the single greatest threat to the preservation of Egypt’s monuments is the rising level of underground water throughout the country. Runoff from sewage and agriculture, along...
- Mummification Museum Lecture, Hidden Thebes – Ted Brock
Luxor News Blog (Jane Akshar) Mummification Museum lecture 20th Dec 2008 Hidden Thebes – Ted Brock Lost and Unknown Monuments Outside Karnak Temple Ted was on two projects which revealed hidden parts of Karnak. The first was a sewage project and the...
- 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...
- Draining Water From Karnak And Luxor
http://touregypt.net/TEBlog/luxornews/?p=129 Luxor News Blog's Jane Akshar has reported on a recent lecture by Edwin Brock. "He talked about the project to drain the temples of Karnak and Luxor. . . . The project to drain these sites was started by...
Egypt
Saving the West Bank temples in Luxor
Luxor News Blog (Jane Akshar)
Good news about the problems of the rising of the water table and destruction of the monuments. The problems is that with the building of the Aswan Dam water is now available to the farmer all year round. The temples were built taking into account they would be flooded 3 months of the year and bone dry for the other 9 months. The farmer would have one crop a year, he would sow his seed as the waters of the inundation receded and the yearly crop would grow and be harvested.
Now water is available all year round. The farmer flood irrigates his field and can crop 2 to 3 times a year. This has risen the water table and the temple foundations how sit in water all year round. This is decaying the stone and sand stone becomes sand again.
See the above page for Jane's complete post.
- Project Resumed In Luxor To Protect Temples From Subterranean Water
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) Following nine months of delay, an American-Egyptian mission responsible for lowering ground water at archaeological sites in Luxor resumed its work today. The project aims to decrease the subterranean water level that has...
- Keeping The Great Sphinx’s Paws Dry
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) Includes diagrams, photographs and a map. Perhaps the single greatest threat to the preservation of Egypt’s monuments is the rising level of underground water throughout the country. Runoff from sewage and agriculture, along...
- Mummification Museum Lecture, Hidden Thebes – Ted Brock
Luxor News Blog (Jane Akshar) Mummification Museum lecture 20th Dec 2008 Hidden Thebes – Ted Brock Lost and Unknown Monuments Outside Karnak Temple Ted was on two projects which revealed hidden parts of Karnak. The first was a sewage project and the...
- 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...
- Draining Water From Karnak And Luxor
http://touregypt.net/TEBlog/luxornews/?p=129 Luxor News Blog's Jane Akshar has reported on a recent lecture by Edwin Brock. "He talked about the project to drain the temples of Karnak and Luxor. . . . The project to drain these sites was started by...