Egypt
Thanks very much to Mahmoud Mola, who is an excellent tour guide working in Aswan, for letting me know that Egyptian winter time started at the weekend. The clocks went back by one hour.
You can check out the current time in Egypt at the timeanddate.com website.
- Oriental Institute Museum Audio Guides
The Oriental Institute blog The Oriental Institute has released a set of audio tours of the collections on display in the Museum. You can download them ahead of time and play them on your own iPod as you walk through the Museum, or you can check out iPods...
- The Vulnerable University Museums
Urban Art and Antiquities blog (Hui) Bad economic news seems to come almost everyday. The cover of the new The Magazine Antiques excites the reader with “American Antiques Season”, but business is slow if not zero, as reported by Bloomberg in its...
- Tourism: Key Dates In September 2007
Egypt State Information Service "Egypt will start its wintertime as of Friday, September 7," Cabinet Spokesman Magdi Radi announced Wednesday 22/8/2007. This means that Egyptians will set their clocks one hour backward. Egypt operates Daylight-Saving...
- Measuring Time
http://tinyurl.com/hpxgf (thestatesman.net) An informal article that looks at the evolution of time measurement and the development of clocks describes three early Egytian time keeping devices - sundials, merkhets and water clocks. See the above article...
- Review: Museo Egizio
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/wire?section=oly&id=2333012A description of the Turin museum of Egyptology. The presence of this article on a sports-focused website is due to the Winter Olympics, which are based in Turin. "Although the Greeks invented...
Egypt
Travel: Egyptian winter time
Thanks very much to Mahmoud Mola, who is an excellent tour guide working in Aswan, for letting me know that Egyptian winter time started at the weekend. The clocks went back by one hour.You can check out the current time in Egypt at the timeanddate.com website.
- Oriental Institute Museum Audio Guides
The Oriental Institute blog The Oriental Institute has released a set of audio tours of the collections on display in the Museum. You can download them ahead of time and play them on your own iPod as you walk through the Museum, or you can check out iPods...
- The Vulnerable University Museums
Urban Art and Antiquities blog (Hui) Bad economic news seems to come almost everyday. The cover of the new The Magazine Antiques excites the reader with “American Antiques Season”, but business is slow if not zero, as reported by Bloomberg in its...
- Tourism: Key Dates In September 2007
Egypt State Information Service "Egypt will start its wintertime as of Friday, September 7," Cabinet Spokesman Magdi Radi announced Wednesday 22/8/2007. This means that Egyptians will set their clocks one hour backward. Egypt operates Daylight-Saving...
- Measuring Time
http://tinyurl.com/hpxgf (thestatesman.net) An informal article that looks at the evolution of time measurement and the development of clocks describes three early Egytian time keeping devices - sundials, merkhets and water clocks. See the above article...
- Review: Museo Egizio
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/wire?section=oly&id=2333012A description of the Turin museum of Egyptology. The presence of this article on a sports-focused website is due to the Winter Olympics, which are based in Turin. "Although the Greeks invented...