Egypt
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass)
- Clearing Illegal Building On Luxor's West Bank
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) Today, we cleared about 22 monuments on the West Bank of Luxor that had been attacked by illegal building activity in the days following the revolution. Many people built houses or expanded their Alabaster factories over the...
- Unesco Visit To Egypt
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) Following favourable reports on Al Mary Al Youm and Ahram Online about UNESCO's visit to Egypt (22nd March), Hawass says that UNESCO was upset by the damage that he showed them at sites in northern Egypt. Following his...
- Hawass - Current News On Sites And Objects
drhawass.com Hawass comments about findings at Dashur, Abusir, and five objects recovered from the looting at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. On Sunday I went to Dahshur to visit my excavations in an area south of Saqqara. We began this work when satellite...
- Updates From Dr Hawass On Sites And Museums
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) Here's an exerpt but see the above page to see reports on museum restorations and more about Qantara East where 800 items haev been stolen (mostly, according to Hawass, pottery). At Lischt, a famous site containing the...
- Attempted Break-in Near Edfu
Luxor Times Three people were arrested when they tried to break into El Kom Al Ahmer site near Edfu. Also few other sites were under armed assault in the past 3 weeks in Saqqara, Dahshur, Minia, Sohag and Aswan trying to rob tombs and antiquities magazines...
Egypt
The removal of a modern cemetery built above the oldest capital in the world
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass)
I will never forget what I saw when I went to Saqqara before I became Minister of Antiquities for the second time. During the Revolution, people built over five hundred tombs (a modern cemetery) above sites near the pyramids of Pepi I, Pepi II, and Djedkare Isesi. I found out that the people who live nearby also built a mosque on the causeway of the pyramid of Djedkare Isesi.
There was more destruction at Mit Rahina (ancient Memphis), where large cemeteries were built. Local people also built large cemeteries at Abusir, Lisht, the West Bank of Luxor, and many other sites all over Egypt. I was very upset by the attacks on the sites, and I could not sit by and watch them be destroyed like this. I even had dreams about these sites, and I hoped very much that we would be able to undo all of the damage.
- Clearing Illegal Building On Luxor's West Bank
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) Today, we cleared about 22 monuments on the West Bank of Luxor that had been attacked by illegal building activity in the days following the revolution. Many people built houses or expanded their Alabaster factories over the...
- Unesco Visit To Egypt
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) Following favourable reports on Al Mary Al Youm and Ahram Online about UNESCO's visit to Egypt (22nd March), Hawass says that UNESCO was upset by the damage that he showed them at sites in northern Egypt. Following his...
- Hawass - Current News On Sites And Objects
drhawass.com Hawass comments about findings at Dashur, Abusir, and five objects recovered from the looting at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. On Sunday I went to Dahshur to visit my excavations in an area south of Saqqara. We began this work when satellite...
- Updates From Dr Hawass On Sites And Museums
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) Here's an exerpt but see the above page to see reports on museum restorations and more about Qantara East where 800 items haev been stolen (mostly, according to Hawass, pottery). At Lischt, a famous site containing the...
- Attempted Break-in Near Edfu
Luxor Times Three people were arrested when they tried to break into El Kom Al Ahmer site near Edfu. Also few other sites were under armed assault in the past 3 weeks in Saqqara, Dahshur, Minia, Sohag and Aswan trying to rob tombs and antiquities magazines...