Egypt
Luxor Times
See the above page for the full report and all the photographs.
- Opening Plans For The Avenue Of Sphinxes
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) Dr. Zahi Hawass, Minister of State for Antiquities, made the announcement following a meeting attended by Major General Khalid Fouda, Governor of Luxor, Dr. Mohamed Abdel Maksoud, Undersecretary of State for the Minister’s...
- Ongoing Work At The Avenue Of The Sphinxes
Luxor Times With lots of photographs. Yesterday after the opening of the Committee meeting on the safeguarding project of New Gourna Village. Dr. Samir Farag invited all media and press representatives to accompany him to have a look on the work is being...
- More Re Luxor's Avenue Of Sphinxes
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) The SCA currently has many restoration projects underway. One of the most important is the Avenue of Sphinxes in Luxor. This is an avenue that stretches between Karnak and Luxor Temples and is lined with sphinxes, although most...
- The New Luxor
This article concerns the rapid development of Luxor including the loss of the village of Qurna and worse the development of the Avenue of Sphinx's which has resulted in the use of bulldozers to do archaeological work and the removal of the...
- The Avenue Of Mice
This is a report critical of the restoration of the avenue of sphinxes by the Supreme council of antiquities. The avenue restoration has caused evictions of people living in homes on top of the avenue. The residents have been offered new homes built far...
Egypt
The current state of the Avenue of the Sphinxes
Luxor Times
An article looking at all the internal problems involved with the construction of the Avenue of the Sphinxes, a project which has divided people in Luxor and beyond. With a great many photographs to illustrate the writer's point.
The press release from the Ministry state of Antiquities and the announcements were made by Governor of Luxor in the past few weeks about the Grand opening of the Sphinx Avenue after restoration.
During the reign of Dr. Samir Farag (Former governor of Luxor) hundreds of families were forced to leave their homes in order to start the excavation work to retrieve the Sphinx Avenue and few dates were set for the Grand opening starting when Hosni Mubarak (Former President) was on a visit to Luxor in December 2009 and said that he will come in March for the opening and the newspapers and media sources spread the news and the work was going on almost 24 hours a day in 3 sectors of the avenue that was divided into 5 phases. When the former President had to fly to Germany for medical treatment around the same time he was supposed to visit Luxor so the work stopped or slow down big time as the need to finish for the show was not there. . . . .
The other issue here is the status of the Sphinx Avenue as of Today. The pictures below and the video were taken only hours earlier will show the status of the Avenue and the non going work there. Does this look like a project waiting for a Grand opening in 3 months time? Even so ... how it was left to get to that state? Children ride on top on the Sphinx (unfortunately, there is no picture here to prove it) and people dumping their rubbish there. Could anyone think about how families who used to live for years in their homes there would feel now seeing a historical site of over 4000 years old and what used to be their home location used as a rubbish dump? Where is the security?
See the above page for the full report and all the photographs.
- Opening Plans For The Avenue Of Sphinxes
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) Dr. Zahi Hawass, Minister of State for Antiquities, made the announcement following a meeting attended by Major General Khalid Fouda, Governor of Luxor, Dr. Mohamed Abdel Maksoud, Undersecretary of State for the Minister’s...
- Ongoing Work At The Avenue Of The Sphinxes
Luxor Times With lots of photographs. Yesterday after the opening of the Committee meeting on the safeguarding project of New Gourna Village. Dr. Samir Farag invited all media and press representatives to accompany him to have a look on the work is being...
- More Re Luxor's Avenue Of Sphinxes
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) The SCA currently has many restoration projects underway. One of the most important is the Avenue of Sphinxes in Luxor. This is an avenue that stretches between Karnak and Luxor Temples and is lined with sphinxes, although most...
- The New Luxor
This article concerns the rapid development of Luxor including the loss of the village of Qurna and worse the development of the Avenue of Sphinx's which has resulted in the use of bulldozers to do archaeological work and the removal of the...
- The Avenue Of Mice
This is a report critical of the restoration of the avenue of sphinxes by the Supreme council of antiquities. The avenue restoration has caused evictions of people living in homes on top of the avenue. The residents have been offered new homes built far...