Egypt
Al Masry Al Youm (Louise Sarant)
With photos.
- Travel: What To Do With Children In Egypt
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PR Newswire American Exhibitions, Inc. announced today that the City of Los Angeles has been chosen for the world-debut of Mummies of the World, the largest traveling exhibition of mummies ever assembled. Unlike any exhibition in history, Mummies of the...
- Dvd Reviews Ancient Lives
Blog Critics (Jennifer Bogart) Ancient Lives is a documentary unlike any other I’ve watched. Viewing this passionately presented 200 plus minute voyage through the lives of a village of Egyptian tomb-makers living in the small village of Deir al Medina...
- Museums Across Egypt
http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=6637Thanks very much to Kat Newkirk for pointing out that the Egypt Today has now been updated with its April issue, with a feature about some of the less well known museums (not all Egyptological) throughout...
- A Village Like No Other
http://tinyurl.com/a5k9tA travel feature describing a life-sized reproduction pharaonic village: "Not listed in the guidebooks and travel literature, the village comes as a pleasant surprise. Situated in the heart of Cairo, the Pharaonic village is the...
Egypt
The Pharaonic Village
Al Masry Al Youm (Louise Sarant)
With photos.
n 1984, a renowned papyrus maker, Hussam Ragab, opened the world’s first living museum, the Pharaonic Village on the island of Qorsaya, in Giza. His boundless ambition led him to research the lives of the Ancient Egyptians and their habitat to the smallest details in order to establish a living museum that would realistically depict the everyday lives of the Egyptians 4,000 years ago.
Ragab already owned a part of the Island, where he was growing the world’s largest papyrus plantation. The iconic Egyptian plant had gradually disappeared during the industrial era, when new paper techniques invaded worldwide markets. His quest for papyrus seeds led him to Uganda and Ethiopia and the US, where he viewed an exhibition that retraced the lives of the first American settlers.
The American exhibition gave him the idea for creating a museum on Ancient Egyptian history, but a living one, with actors in costumes operating in a typically Pharaonic environment.
- Travel: What To Do With Children In Egypt
Egypt Today (John Prosser) A look at some of the educational and entertaining areas of Cairo that might keep your children engaged on holiday. A fitting place to begin your family’s academic adventures is Dr. Hassan Ragab’s Pharaonic Village. Visitors...
- Exhibition: Mummies Of The World
PR Newswire American Exhibitions, Inc. announced today that the City of Los Angeles has been chosen for the world-debut of Mummies of the World, the largest traveling exhibition of mummies ever assembled. Unlike any exhibition in history, Mummies of the...
- Dvd Reviews Ancient Lives
Blog Critics (Jennifer Bogart) Ancient Lives is a documentary unlike any other I’ve watched. Viewing this passionately presented 200 plus minute voyage through the lives of a village of Egyptian tomb-makers living in the small village of Deir al Medina...
- Museums Across Egypt
http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=6637Thanks very much to Kat Newkirk for pointing out that the Egypt Today has now been updated with its April issue, with a feature about some of the less well known museums (not all Egyptological) throughout...
- A Village Like No Other
http://tinyurl.com/a5k9tA travel feature describing a life-sized reproduction pharaonic village: "Not listed in the guidebooks and travel literature, the village comes as a pleasant surprise. Situated in the heart of Cairo, the Pharaonic village is the...