Egypt
Gulf News (Ramadan Al Sherbini)
- More Re Work Resuming On Kebash Road
Youm7 (Dina Abdul Aleem) Kebash Road at Karnak Temple is facing a crisis after the January 25 Revolution, according to General Security of Supreme Council for Antiquities, Mohamed Abdul Fatah. “Development and restoratfion processes have stopped since...
- The 3cs Of Discussing Heritage Online
Voices of the Past (Jeff Guin) There are few yearnings that span the human race, across cultures, political beliefs and past history more than the compulsion to understand our identity. Part of that is understanding where we come from. This understanding...
- New Egyptian Gallery At Auckland Museum, New Zealand
Scoop Drawn from Auckland Museums own collections this gallery illustrates part of the depth and variety of ancient civilisations and cultures from all over the world. A focus of this gallery is Ancient Egypt from the pre-dynastic period to the Roman...
- Downtown Palace To Become History Museum
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/1/ The article on this URL will expire shortly I have reproduced this article by Hassan Saadallah in full: "The Said Pasha Abdul Halim Palace in Champollion Street, central Cairo, is to be converted into an Egyptian...
- Exhibition: Treasures Of Ancient Egypt
http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=178646&Sn=BNEW&IssueID=30022This is a somewhat more coherent report than the one I posted yesterday, about the touring exhibition, which starts the Arab leg of its travels in Bahrain, at the Bahrain...
Egypt
Torture museum in Egypt highlights grim past
Gulf News (Ramadan Al Sherbini)
Egyptology news is a bit thin on the ground at the moment so I'm throwing the odd item in that might be of interest from more recent areas of Egypt's past.
Egypt will soon host a first of its kind torture museum, exhibiting various tools used to harm and intimidate people around the world, in a bid to expose history's oppressors.
Egyptian reasercher Mohammad Abdul Wahab told Gulf News that he hoped that his museum would deter woul-be oppressors from resorting to torture.
To Abdul Wahab, human history is teeming with examples of horrifying oppression inflicted mostly on dissident intellectuals and politicians. In his view, one of the best ways to deter would-be oppressors is to expose those of the past.
Therefore, Abdul Wahab, who lived for years in the US, has spent almost a decade collecting tools of torture from different eras and countries. Now they are displayed in his gallery at Al Maryutia near the famous Giza Pyramids.
At present only members of the media and human rights advocates have been allowed to tour the gallery. But Abdul Wahab promised he would open it to the public in the near future.
- More Re Work Resuming On Kebash Road
Youm7 (Dina Abdul Aleem) Kebash Road at Karnak Temple is facing a crisis after the January 25 Revolution, according to General Security of Supreme Council for Antiquities, Mohamed Abdul Fatah. “Development and restoratfion processes have stopped since...
- The 3cs Of Discussing Heritage Online
Voices of the Past (Jeff Guin) There are few yearnings that span the human race, across cultures, political beliefs and past history more than the compulsion to understand our identity. Part of that is understanding where we come from. This understanding...
- New Egyptian Gallery At Auckland Museum, New Zealand
Scoop Drawn from Auckland Museums own collections this gallery illustrates part of the depth and variety of ancient civilisations and cultures from all over the world. A focus of this gallery is Ancient Egypt from the pre-dynastic period to the Roman...
- Downtown Palace To Become History Museum
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/1/ The article on this URL will expire shortly I have reproduced this article by Hassan Saadallah in full: "The Said Pasha Abdul Halim Palace in Champollion Street, central Cairo, is to be converted into an Egyptian...
- Exhibition: Treasures Of Ancient Egypt
http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=178646&Sn=BNEW&IssueID=30022This is a somewhat more coherent report than the one I posted yesterday, about the touring exhibition, which starts the Arab leg of its travels in Bahrain, at the Bahrain...