Egypt
- New Book: Philae And The End Of Ancient Egyptian Religion
Dijkstra J.H.F., Philae and the End of Ancient Egyptian Religion. A Regional Study of Religious Transformation (298-642 CE) Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 173 Summary: The famous island of Philae, on Egypt's southern frontier, can be considered...
- Travel: Final Swing Through Egypt
Jamaica Gleaner News (Laura Tanna) Our last day with our guide, we drive to Aswan Dam, built by the British between 1898 and 1902, and then to the High Dam, built between 1960 and 1971 with the assistance of the Soviet Union, commemorated by a lotus-shaped...
- Tv Review: Monster Moves - Rescuing Ramesses
Egyptology Blog (Mark Morgan) Monster Moves: Rescuing Ramesses was shown on Tuesday night (March 4th 2008) on channel Five in the UK. I was a bit apprehensive at first but the show turned out far better than I expected. The show told the story of the...
- Travel: Aswan To Esna
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/640598.cmsTravel piece about the main sites around Aswan, and then Kom Ombo, Edfu and Esna, which includes brief details for all sites about the nature of the deities represented there: " First stop: the...
- Travel: A View From The Nile
http://tinyurl.com/ju72c (venturacountystar.com) A two-part day by day account of travelling from the U.S. to Cairo and then taking a cruise up the Nile from Aswan via Abu Simbel: "Aswan appeared much cleaner and more prosperous than Cairo. While still...
Egypt
Travel: Nile Cruise, Cairo, Philae and Abu Simbel
http://washingtontimes.com/travel/20070323-085419-6551r_page2.htm
An account of a Nile cruise with visits to Cairo, Philae and Abu Simbel. It is coming to the end of the most popular time for tourism in Egypt, but there seem to be lots of travel accounts around: "In the Aswan area, where we saw the great dam that has enabled this mostly desert country to expand its cultivable area, we toured the magnificent Philae Temple, site of an especially beautiful shrine honoring the greatest of Egyptian goddesses, Isis, the wife of Osiris, god of life and death and fertility, and the mother of Horus, who, among other things, was said to unite Egypt and had the power to confer deity on Pharaohs. Like Abu Simbel, Philae, which also includes lesser temples, tells a great rescue story. Partially submerged most of the year following the building of the first Aswan Dam in the early 1900s, it was threatened with total immersion and certain ruin 60 years later when the much higher second Aswan Dam was built."
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- New Book: Philae And The End Of Ancient Egyptian Religion
Dijkstra J.H.F., Philae and the End of Ancient Egyptian Religion. A Regional Study of Religious Transformation (298-642 CE) Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 173 Summary: The famous island of Philae, on Egypt's southern frontier, can be considered...
- Travel: Final Swing Through Egypt
Jamaica Gleaner News (Laura Tanna) Our last day with our guide, we drive to Aswan Dam, built by the British between 1898 and 1902, and then to the High Dam, built between 1960 and 1971 with the assistance of the Soviet Union, commemorated by a lotus-shaped...
- Tv Review: Monster Moves - Rescuing Ramesses
Egyptology Blog (Mark Morgan) Monster Moves: Rescuing Ramesses was shown on Tuesday night (March 4th 2008) on channel Five in the UK. I was a bit apprehensive at first but the show turned out far better than I expected. The show told the story of the...
- Travel: Aswan To Esna
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/640598.cmsTravel piece about the main sites around Aswan, and then Kom Ombo, Edfu and Esna, which includes brief details for all sites about the nature of the deities represented there: " First stop: the...
- Travel: A View From The Nile
http://tinyurl.com/ju72c (venturacountystar.com) A two-part day by day account of travelling from the U.S. to Cairo and then taking a cruise up the Nile from Aswan via Abu Simbel: "Aswan appeared much cleaner and more prosperous than Cairo. While still...