Egypt
- Excavation Team Formed
Egypt State Information Service Culture Minister Farouk Hosni named the first antiquities excavation team under Dr. Zahi Hawas Secretary General of the Antiquities Supreme Council to operate in Valley of the Kings in Luxor to unearth a number of tombs...
- Giza Pyramids Win Wta Award
eTurboNews The World Travel Awards (WTA) chose the Giza pyramids as the world’s leading attraction in 2007 during its fourteenth annual ceremony held at the Beaches Turks and Caicos Resort and Spa in the Caribbean, Egyptian Culture Minister Farouk Hosni...
- Ees 2006 Centenary Award
http://www.ees.ac.uk/home/ees-cent-award-2006.pdf For information on the Egypt Exploration Society's 2006 Centenary Award, please visit the above page on the EES's website (in pdf format). The Award is granted to a particular project or projects...
- Discoveries, Recognition And Promotion
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/5/ An article by Zahi Hawass about himself. It is reproduced here in full, because it will not be on the site by tomorrow: "In 1987, I was appointed Director General of Giza, Saqqara, and Bahariya Oasis and set to...
- Documentary On Predynastic Life
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/2/ "The Department of Pre-Dynastic Monuments, an affiliate of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, will produce a documentary on life of ancient Egyptians who lived in the pre-dynastic era. According to Culture Minister...
Egypt
SCA chief wins Oscar Emmy Award
http://tinyurl.com/f6jrc (sis.gov.eg)
"Zahi Hawas, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), won Thursday the Oscar Emmy Award presented by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for the best TV film at the international level.
Hawas won the Prize over commenting at the background of a documentary film on Pharaoh King Tutankhamen and the Valley of Kings and expounding the old Egyptian civilization. Also, the film's director won the same prize on the movie which was produced by the CBS channel in 2005.
The award is a golden statue of a winged woman holding ball with Hawas's names written at the bottom.
Hawas is the first Egyptian to win such a prize and it is the first time that the winner of such award was not working in the media domain."
Hawas won the Prize over commenting at the background of a documentary film on Pharaoh King Tutankhamen and the Valley of Kings and expounding the old Egyptian civilization. Also, the film's director won the same prize on the movie which was produced by the CBS channel in 2005.
The award is a golden statue of a winged woman holding ball with Hawas's names written at the bottom.
Hawas is the first Egyptian to win such a prize and it is the first time that the winner of such award was not working in the media domain."
This is the complete item on the SCA website
- Excavation Team Formed
Egypt State Information Service Culture Minister Farouk Hosni named the first antiquities excavation team under Dr. Zahi Hawas Secretary General of the Antiquities Supreme Council to operate in Valley of the Kings in Luxor to unearth a number of tombs...
- Giza Pyramids Win Wta Award
eTurboNews The World Travel Awards (WTA) chose the Giza pyramids as the world’s leading attraction in 2007 during its fourteenth annual ceremony held at the Beaches Turks and Caicos Resort and Spa in the Caribbean, Egyptian Culture Minister Farouk Hosni...
- Ees 2006 Centenary Award
http://www.ees.ac.uk/home/ees-cent-award-2006.pdf For information on the Egypt Exploration Society's 2006 Centenary Award, please visit the above page on the EES's website (in pdf format). The Award is granted to a particular project or projects...
- Discoveries, Recognition And Promotion
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/5/ An article by Zahi Hawass about himself. It is reproduced here in full, because it will not be on the site by tomorrow: "In 1987, I was appointed Director General of Giza, Saqqara, and Bahariya Oasis and set to...
- Documentary On Predynastic Life
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/2/ "The Department of Pre-Dynastic Monuments, an affiliate of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, will produce a documentary on life of ancient Egyptians who lived in the pre-dynastic era. According to Culture Minister...