Egypt
- Ramesses To Go To Grand Museum
drhawass.com Press Release After decision, indecision and decision the red granite statue of Ramses II will move ahead to its new location at the court of the Grand Egyptian Museum, overlooking giza plateau, on August 25. Culture minister Faouk Hosni...
- A Quiet, Safe Place For The Pharaoh?
Egyptian Gazette N.B. story will expire in the next few days on the above address The transport of the giant granite statue of ancient Egyptian Pharaoh, Ramses II, from Ramses Square, downtown Cairo on August 25, 2006, where it stood for more than 50...
- Ramesses In Custody
Egypt Daily Star News There's a rather sad photograph on the above page, showing the statue of Ramesses II in its new location awaiting the construction of the new Grand Museum of Egypt (the most recent estimate for which I have seen is 2010). Here's...
- Egyptology And Heritage Items From Egypt Today
The following are extracts from July's edition of Egypt Today, which were scattered throughout the online publication. SCA Law 117 http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=5059 "The Supreme Council for Antiquities is preparing a new antiquities...
- Thefts From Mosques
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Egypt
Stone Man Walking
http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=6939
"In February 1996, a UNESCO-organized conference projected that many of Egypt’s archaeological sites will have completely deteriorated within 200 years. Dr. Zahi Hawass, head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), disagrees: 'I believe that the situation in Egypt is even more critical.' With the host of problems threatening the remnants of Pharaonic civilization, he estimates that much of Egypt’s cultural history could be gone in half that time.
Easily the most publicized of his efforts to preserve Egypt’s past was last month’s move of the 11-meter-tall statue of Ramses II from Downtown to the site of the new Grand Egyptian Museum being built near the Pyramids.
Hawass wishes people had protested when the statue was first placed Downtown, but can understand why many didn’t. “If you look at a picture of the square at that time, it was beautiful: clean, not much traffic. Now, it’s filthy and crowded, you have bridges above it, busy train stations, popular mosques and worst — the Metro underneath it."
Easily the most publicized of his efforts to preserve Egypt’s past was last month’s move of the 11-meter-tall statue of Ramses II from Downtown to the site of the new Grand Egyptian Museum being built near the Pyramids.
Hawass wishes people had protested when the statue was first placed Downtown, but can understand why many didn’t. “If you look at a picture of the square at that time, it was beautiful: clean, not much traffic. Now, it’s filthy and crowded, you have bridges above it, busy train stations, popular mosques and worst — the Metro underneath it."
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- Ramesses To Go To Grand Museum
drhawass.com Press Release After decision, indecision and decision the red granite statue of Ramses II will move ahead to its new location at the court of the Grand Egyptian Museum, overlooking giza plateau, on August 25. Culture minister Faouk Hosni...
- A Quiet, Safe Place For The Pharaoh?
Egyptian Gazette N.B. story will expire in the next few days on the above address The transport of the giant granite statue of ancient Egyptian Pharaoh, Ramses II, from Ramses Square, downtown Cairo on August 25, 2006, where it stood for more than 50...
- Ramesses In Custody
Egypt Daily Star News There's a rather sad photograph on the above page, showing the statue of Ramesses II in its new location awaiting the construction of the new Grand Museum of Egypt (the most recent estimate for which I have seen is 2010). Here's...
- Egyptology And Heritage Items From Egypt Today
The following are extracts from July's edition of Egypt Today, which were scattered throughout the online publication. SCA Law 117 http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=5059 "The Supreme Council for Antiquities is preparing a new antiquities...
- Thefts From Mosques
...