Egypt
- The High Dam And Its Negative Effects
Al Ahram Weekly (Jill Kamill) This is a fascinating article, to which a short exerpt simply cannot do justice. Jill Kamill looks at the impacts of the Aswan High Dam on Egypt's heritage - everything from water damage to monuments to the increase in...
- Travel: Reflections In The Nile
Reflections in the Nile blog Su Bayfield has been updating her blog recently with items from journals she has kept of her many visits to Egypt, creating an eclectic mix of photographs, insights and anecdotes. Very enjoyable. Here's a sample from...
- Statue Fatwa Raises Concerns
http://tinyurl.com/mnbf5 (aljazeera.net)"A fatwa issued by Egypt's religious authority forbidding the display of statues has raised fears that it could be used as an excuse to destroy the country's historical heritage. Shaikh Ali Gomaa, the Grand...
- The Destruction Of Luxor's Heritage
http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/waterdamage.htmJane Akshar, Luxor resident and writer of the Tour Egypt website's Luxor Blog, has written an article highlighting the damage caused by water and tourism to Luxor monuments: "This is not a new...
- The Nile Valley - Where Ancient Meets Modern
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3358004a2180,00.html An article looking at the value of the Nile to Egypt, ancient and modern, and contrasting the natural flooding of the Valley in days before large-scale damming projects began, with life since the...
Egypt
Water damage to Nile monuments
http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=6795
An article looking at dangers to Egyptian monuments - from the recent Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa fatwa to the damage caused to Luxor sites by irrigation: "The tourist industry is Egypt’s largest source of private employment and is one of the country’s largest sources of revenue. Terrorist attacks, fluctuations in the world economy and general unrest in parts of the Middle East all affect the industry to some extent. But the greatest threat to many of Egypt’s antiquities and the industry built around them may not be from misinterpreted fatwas or extremist’s bombs, but from an icon as Egyptian as the Great Pyramids of Giza: the Nile. . . . Much of the groundwater and its greatly increased salinity levels come from an unexpected side effect of regulating the flow of the Nile. Even though the river maintains a constant high level, the end of the traditional flood season means that man-made irrigation is now necessary even on the flood-plain. In addition to the new irrigation systems, chemical fertilizers have contributed to the erosion of the ancient columns."
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- The High Dam And Its Negative Effects
Al Ahram Weekly (Jill Kamill) This is a fascinating article, to which a short exerpt simply cannot do justice. Jill Kamill looks at the impacts of the Aswan High Dam on Egypt's heritage - everything from water damage to monuments to the increase in...
- Travel: Reflections In The Nile
Reflections in the Nile blog Su Bayfield has been updating her blog recently with items from journals she has kept of her many visits to Egypt, creating an eclectic mix of photographs, insights and anecdotes. Very enjoyable. Here's a sample from...
- Statue Fatwa Raises Concerns
http://tinyurl.com/mnbf5 (aljazeera.net)"A fatwa issued by Egypt's religious authority forbidding the display of statues has raised fears that it could be used as an excuse to destroy the country's historical heritage. Shaikh Ali Gomaa, the Grand...
- The Destruction Of Luxor's Heritage
http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/waterdamage.htmJane Akshar, Luxor resident and writer of the Tour Egypt website's Luxor Blog, has written an article highlighting the damage caused by water and tourism to Luxor monuments: "This is not a new...
- The Nile Valley - Where Ancient Meets Modern
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3358004a2180,00.html An article looking at the value of the Nile to Egypt, ancient and modern, and contrasting the natural flooding of the Valley in days before large-scale damming projects began, with life since the...