Egypt
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref)
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- Foreign Missions Resume Their Archaeological Works In Upper Egypt
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- Mixed Signals In The Egytian Heritage Hierarchy
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- Cairo Under Siege
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) Following its meeting in New Zealand last month, the World Heritage Committee (WHC) released a report that may exacerbate differences between the Ministry of Culture and the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) on one...
Egypt
SCA to review archaeological restoration projects
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref)
Within the framework of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA)’s efforts to restore Egypt’s many archaeological sites, a technical committee was established on Tuesday to review projects temporarily halted in the wake of Egypt’s January revolution. These reportedly include development projects taken up by the Ministry of Culture after its recent separation from the SCA, which is now directly answerable to the Cabinet.
Among these projects are the historic Cairo Development project, the Grand Egyptian Museum overlooking the Giza plateau, the National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation in Old Cairo and the Nubian Archaeological Fund.
At a meeting with the SCA’s engineering and projects departments, recently-appointed SCA Secretary-General Mostafa Amin announced his decision to appoint Major-General Mohamed El-Sheikha to lead the committee. The meeting also discussed possibilities for collaboration with the SCA’s antiquities documentation, scientific and architectural centres instead of the consultancies that usually drain most of the budgets allocated for development projects.
- Changes At The Sca / Antiquities Ministry
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) Twenty-four hours after his appointment as Egypt’s new antiquities minister, Mohamed Ibrahim Aly unveils his strategy to spruce up archaeology In a closed meeting, the new secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities...
- Tackling Egypt's Heritage On A Budget
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) Amin told Ahram Online that he needed some time to reorganise the SCA and its administrative and archaeological planning, but he promised to go forward and complete the SCA's mega projects such as the new Grand Egyptian...
- Foreign Missions Resume Their Archaeological Works In Upper Egypt
Ahram Online (Nevine El Aref) Polish, American and German archaeological missions are given government authorisation to resume important works in Luxor and Aswan This year’s October-December archaeological projects by foreign entities resume in full-swing...
- Mixed Signals In The Egytian Heritage Hierarchy
Al Ahram Weekly While Culture Minister Farouk Hosni was nominated for the post of UNESCO director-general, writes Nevine El-Aref, two of his closest aides are arrested on charges of bribery. . . .This time the furore involves, rather, two of his aides:...
- Cairo Under Siege
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) Following its meeting in New Zealand last month, the World Heritage Committee (WHC) released a report that may exacerbate differences between the Ministry of Culture and the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) on one...