Egypt
- Replicas In The Valley Of The Kings?
Al Ahram Weekly (Riad Tawfik) Tourism experts have greeted a plan to open replica tombs for tourists on the west bank at Luxor with considerable scepticism, writes Riad Tawfik Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) has recently announced a radical plan...
- Kv 5 Update
Theban Mapping Project (Kent Weeks) Thanks very much to Kate Phizackerley's "News from the Valley of the Kings" blog for the information that Kent Weeks has published a brief 2009 update on the clearing of KV 5, the tomb of the sons of Ramesses II....
- Protecting The Valley Of The Kings
drhawass.com I always say that the Egyptian monuments will be completely destroyed in less than 100 years if tourism isn’t managed properly. Tourism is the number one threat to the Egyptian antiquities. In Egypt we have started many important site management...
- Tourism Damaging Egyptian Heritage
http://tinyurl.com/ycxyke (reuters.co.uk)http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=1618462006Michael Jones, of the American Research Centre in Egypt, and Gaballa Ali Gaballa, a former head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities highlighted the problems...
- Current World Archaeology Magazine: Kv5
http://www.archaeology.co.uk/cwa/issues/cwa12/cwa12.htm A reminder that Current World Archaeology is due out next month. They are running an article on KV5 in their August/September edition: "Although the entrance has long been known, it was thought to...
Egypt
Travel Vandals
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11857
This is an article looking at problems of tourist management at heritage sites world wide, and quotes Kent Weeks who has warned about the impacts of tourism in Egypt: "Experts are beginning to give us objective reasons why tourism cannot continue to grow in an uncontrolled, unplanned way. One such warning has come from Kent Weeks, professor of Egyptology at the American University of Cairo, who says that the number of people entering the tombs of Ramses II, Seti I and Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings will have to be restricted, as they are doing too much damage to the wall paintings, with each visitor breathing out about a third of a teacup of moisture in any one tomb".
- Replicas In The Valley Of The Kings?
Al Ahram Weekly (Riad Tawfik) Tourism experts have greeted a plan to open replica tombs for tourists on the west bank at Luxor with considerable scepticism, writes Riad Tawfik Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) has recently announced a radical plan...
- Kv 5 Update
Theban Mapping Project (Kent Weeks) Thanks very much to Kate Phizackerley's "News from the Valley of the Kings" blog for the information that Kent Weeks has published a brief 2009 update on the clearing of KV 5, the tomb of the sons of Ramesses II....
- Protecting The Valley Of The Kings
drhawass.com I always say that the Egyptian monuments will be completely destroyed in less than 100 years if tourism isn’t managed properly. Tourism is the number one threat to the Egyptian antiquities. In Egypt we have started many important site management...
- Tourism Damaging Egyptian Heritage
http://tinyurl.com/ycxyke (reuters.co.uk)http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=1618462006Michael Jones, of the American Research Centre in Egypt, and Gaballa Ali Gaballa, a former head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities highlighted the problems...
- Current World Archaeology Magazine: Kv5
http://www.archaeology.co.uk/cwa/issues/cwa12/cwa12.htm A reminder that Current World Archaeology is due out next month. They are running an article on KV5 in their August/September edition: "Although the entrance has long been known, it was thought to...