Egypt
- The Faiyum To Become A Tourist Site For Prehistoric Whales
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) In the parched desert on the westernmost edge of the Fayoum Depression stretches Wadi Al-Hitan (Whales Valley), its invaluable fossil remains of the earliest and now extinct sub-order of whales, the Archaeoceti, scattered...
- Wadi El-hitan
http://www.aapg.org/explorer/2006/01jan/whale_valley.cfmAn article about the Eocene 406 whale fossils preserved in the Faiyum Depression at Wadi Hitan (Whale Valley), an area recently designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO: "The great expanse was...
- Wadi Hitan
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/egyptian_mail/m2/An article about the prehistoric marine life in the Wadi Hitan by Hassan Saadallah. "It might be strange to know that Fayyoum, the large fertile depression in the desert, used to have a large number of whales,...
- Final Decisions Of 29th Session Of World Heritage Committee
http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/190 "The Decisions adopted at the 29th session of the World Heritage Committee, held in Durban, South Africa from 10 to 17 July 2005, are now available online at the following address" (PDF format): http://whc.unesco.org/archive/2005/whc29com-22e.pdf...
- Wadi Al-hitan To Be On World Heritage List
http://today.reuters.co.uk/News/NewsArticle.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2005-07-08T160303Z_01_L08370310_RTRIDST_0_SCIENCE-ENVIRONMENT-SITES-DC.XML "Some of the world's deepest Norwegian fjords and a fossil-strewn Egyptian desert are set to join...
Egypt
World Heritage Newsletter 50
http://whc.unesco.org/documents/publi_news_50_en.pdf
The World Heritage Committee's newsletter following the 29th session in July, gives details of sites added to and removed from their list of world heritage in danger. Amongst the additions is the Wadi Hitan (Whale Valley) in the Faiyum Depression, southwest of Cairo.
- The Faiyum To Become A Tourist Site For Prehistoric Whales
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) In the parched desert on the westernmost edge of the Fayoum Depression stretches Wadi Al-Hitan (Whales Valley), its invaluable fossil remains of the earliest and now extinct sub-order of whales, the Archaeoceti, scattered...
- Wadi El-hitan
http://www.aapg.org/explorer/2006/01jan/whale_valley.cfmAn article about the Eocene 406 whale fossils preserved in the Faiyum Depression at Wadi Hitan (Whale Valley), an area recently designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO: "The great expanse was...
- Wadi Hitan
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/egyptian_mail/m2/An article about the prehistoric marine life in the Wadi Hitan by Hassan Saadallah. "It might be strange to know that Fayyoum, the large fertile depression in the desert, used to have a large number of whales,...
- Final Decisions Of 29th Session Of World Heritage Committee
http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/190 "The Decisions adopted at the 29th session of the World Heritage Committee, held in Durban, South Africa from 10 to 17 July 2005, are now available online at the following address" (PDF format): http://whc.unesco.org/archive/2005/whc29com-22e.pdf...
- Wadi Al-hitan To Be On World Heritage List
http://today.reuters.co.uk/News/NewsArticle.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2005-07-08T160303Z_01_L08370310_RTRIDST_0_SCIENCE-ENVIRONMENT-SITES-DC.XML "Some of the world's deepest Norwegian fjords and a fossil-strewn Egyptian desert are set to join...