Egypt
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- Travel: Following In The Footsteps Of Harding-king
The National (Jack Shenker) One hundred years ago, the British explorer WJ Harding King tried and failed to cross Egypt’s forbidding Western Desert. Jack Shenker follows his footsteps into a once-isolated world on the cusp of transformation. There is...
- Travel: Out Of The Towns And Into The Lovely Oases
Egypt Today (Ali El-Bahnasawy) The sun, space and opportunity to leave behind the crowded high-tech world are what attracts adventure lovers to the boundless stretches of Egyptian desert, one of the loneliest and unspoiled places on the planet You don’t...
- Daily Photo - Footwear From The Petrie Museum
UC16555. Pair of fine palm-fibre sandals, with ant damage. Tie of one (B) missing. Length 33.5 cms width 16.5 cms. ghteenth Dynasty. Found at Sedment. UC16556. Worn palm-fibre sandal, tie missing . Length 30 cms width 12.3 cms. Eighteenth Dynasty....
- Travel: St Paul's Monastery, Eastern Desert
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/827/feature.htm"Located in the Eastern Desert, Saint Paul Monastery remains one of the most popular in Egypt, attracting a regular horde of visitors tempted as much by the desert journey as by the architectural and spiritual...
- Origins Of The Date Palm
http://tinyurl.com/95p4g (Gulf Daily News) "The date palm Phoenix dactylifera dates back to the first Pharaonic dynasties and the ancient Egyptians called it 'Bennu', 'bnr or 'bnr.t'. These names were used for anything sweet but more...
Egypt
Threat of ancient palm extinction
Green Prophet
In the remote regions of Sudan and Egypt the argun palm tree- a rare desert tree whose fruit was discovered by archaeologists in Pharaoh tombs- grows under a harsh sun. Less than 400 trees is all that remains of the species which environmentalists say is now in critical danger of extinction. Although the desert palm tree has managed to survive the passage of time and outlive the Pharaohs, ecological experts say that human activity such as over-exploitation and climate change is putting the prized palm tree in serious danger.
- Travel: Following In The Footsteps Of Harding-king
The National (Jack Shenker) One hundred years ago, the British explorer WJ Harding King tried and failed to cross Egypt’s forbidding Western Desert. Jack Shenker follows his footsteps into a once-isolated world on the cusp of transformation. There is...
- Travel: Out Of The Towns And Into The Lovely Oases
Egypt Today (Ali El-Bahnasawy) The sun, space and opportunity to leave behind the crowded high-tech world are what attracts adventure lovers to the boundless stretches of Egyptian desert, one of the loneliest and unspoiled places on the planet You don’t...
- Daily Photo - Footwear From The Petrie Museum
UC16555. Pair of fine palm-fibre sandals, with ant damage. Tie of one (B) missing. Length 33.5 cms width 16.5 cms. ghteenth Dynasty. Found at Sedment. UC16556. Worn palm-fibre sandal, tie missing . Length 30 cms width 12.3 cms. Eighteenth Dynasty....
- Travel: St Paul's Monastery, Eastern Desert
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/827/feature.htm"Located in the Eastern Desert, Saint Paul Monastery remains one of the most popular in Egypt, attracting a regular horde of visitors tempted as much by the desert journey as by the architectural and spiritual...
- Origins Of The Date Palm
http://tinyurl.com/95p4g (Gulf Daily News) "The date palm Phoenix dactylifera dates back to the first Pharaonic dynasties and the ancient Egyptians called it 'Bennu', 'bnr or 'bnr.t'. These names were used for anything sweet but more...