Egypt
- Reports Of Looting Continue To Dominate In Egypt
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) With photos. A report issued early this week shows that 800 artefacts are still missing from the Qantara-East warehouse in North Sinai. The storehouse was looted on 29 January -- the fifth day of the Egyptian uprising....
- Egypt's Antiquities Moved For Fear Of Looting
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) In an attempt to protect Egypt’s antiquities, an archaeological mission led by Mohamed Abdel Maqsoud, head of antiquities of Alexandria and Lower Egypt, transported artefacts from the Qantara East storage facility in Sinai...
- More Re Opening Of Arish National Museum
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) Five years after building started and many more years since its inception, the temple- shaped, honey-coloured Arish National Museum stood poised last Sunday for its official inauguration by Mrs Suzanne Mubarak. The long-awaited...
- Sinai Museum To Open Within Days
http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o041025d.htm"Al-Arish museum is getting ready to receive tourist as monuments pieces are being moved to it from eight other museums in preparation for its inauguration, expected to be within days. The construction works...
- New Museums In Sinai And Faiyum
New Museum for North Sinai http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o070425z8.htm "Al-Arish National Museum for North Sinai history will be opened by the Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni, next month. The museum occupies 2km square and will contain over 300...
Egypt
The New El-Arish Museum, Sinai
http://www.egyptologyforum.org/bbs/El-Arish.html
Thanks very much to Raymond Betz for sharing his photographs on the EEF Forum website, at the above page. There are two photographs of the exterior of the museum, and three of artefacts which are part of the museum's outdoor display. It all looks very attractive.
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/1/
"The two-storey Al-Arish National Museum (ANM) will open soon. The temple-shaped, honey-coloured edifice has finally emerged from its hiding place of almost a decade, behind an ugly array of scaffolding, planks and plastic sheeting.
The 2,500-square-metre museum, which will make a huge visual difference to North Sinai's capital city, tells the history of Sinai from the pre-dynastic era to the Islamic era, displaying 1,500 objects carefully selected from eight museums in Egypt.They are the Egyptian, Coptic and Islamic museums (all in Cairo); the Recovered Antiquities Museum at the Citadel; the Graeco-Roman Museum in Alexandria; the Sinai Historical Museum in Taba; the Port Said Museum; and the Beni Suef Antiquity Storehouses in Ashmounein. Artefacts unearthed on the Horus Military Road in the Sinai town of Qantara East and Tel Basta in the Nile Delta are also on display.The museum stands opposite the Al-Arish Ethnographic Centre at the town's eastern end, on the very spot where the Egyptian flag was raised after the Israeli withdrawal from this part of Sinai in 1979. It is set in a huge, 16,000sqm garden full of trees and plants."
Thanks very much to Raymond Betz for sharing his photographs on the EEF Forum website, at the above page. There are two photographs of the exterior of the museum, and three of artefacts which are part of the museum's outdoor display. It all looks very attractive.
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/1/
"The two-storey Al-Arish National Museum (ANM) will open soon. The temple-shaped, honey-coloured edifice has finally emerged from its hiding place of almost a decade, behind an ugly array of scaffolding, planks and plastic sheeting.
The 2,500-square-metre museum, which will make a huge visual difference to North Sinai's capital city, tells the history of Sinai from the pre-dynastic era to the Islamic era, displaying 1,500 objects carefully selected from eight museums in Egypt.They are the Egyptian, Coptic and Islamic museums (all in Cairo); the Recovered Antiquities Museum at the Citadel; the Graeco-Roman Museum in Alexandria; the Sinai Historical Museum in Taba; the Port Said Museum; and the Beni Suef Antiquity Storehouses in Ashmounein. Artefacts unearthed on the Horus Military Road in the Sinai town of Qantara East and Tel Basta in the Nile Delta are also on display.The museum stands opposite the Al-Arish Ethnographic Centre at the town's eastern end, on the very spot where the Egyptian flag was raised after the Israeli withdrawal from this part of Sinai in 1979. It is set in a huge, 16,000sqm garden full of trees and plants."
- Reports Of Looting Continue To Dominate In Egypt
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) With photos. A report issued early this week shows that 800 artefacts are still missing from the Qantara-East warehouse in North Sinai. The storehouse was looted on 29 January -- the fifth day of the Egyptian uprising....
- Egypt's Antiquities Moved For Fear Of Looting
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) In an attempt to protect Egypt’s antiquities, an archaeological mission led by Mohamed Abdel Maqsoud, head of antiquities of Alexandria and Lower Egypt, transported artefacts from the Qantara East storage facility in Sinai...
- More Re Opening Of Arish National Museum
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) Five years after building started and many more years since its inception, the temple- shaped, honey-coloured Arish National Museum stood poised last Sunday for its official inauguration by Mrs Suzanne Mubarak. The long-awaited...
- Sinai Museum To Open Within Days
http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o041025d.htm"Al-Arish museum is getting ready to receive tourist as monuments pieces are being moved to it from eight other museums in preparation for its inauguration, expected to be within days. The construction works...
- New Museums In Sinai And Faiyum
New Museum for North Sinai http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o070425z8.htm "Al-Arish National Museum for North Sinai history will be opened by the Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni, next month. The museum occupies 2km square and will contain over 300...