Egypt
- Travel: Cruising The Royal Route Of The Pharaohs
Ottawa Citizen (Mark Angelo) As our plane approached the town of Aswan in southern Egypt, I could see the meandering Nile below. Beyond the line of the river and the green ribbon of lush irrigated lands that paralleled it, there was nothing but the vast...
- Hawass Dig Days - Obelisks
Al Ahram Weekly Obelisks were signs of victory, and the inscriptions carved on them record the titles and achievements of the Pharaohs. The tip of an obelisk, called the capstone or pyramidion, was cased with gold, its brilliant shine connecting it with...
- Travel: A View From The Nile (part 2)
http://tinyurl.com/f72gu (venturacountystar.com) Second of a two part travel item charting a trip to Egypt. In this installment, the writer, Barry Pollack, travels to Philae, Edfu, and Luxor (the Temple of Luxor, the Valley of the Kings and Karnak), and...
- Making Luxor Into A Living Museum
http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=6683Dr. Samir Farag, president of the Supreme Council of Luxor, has big plans for his city and the wealth of antiquities there. One plan is to restore the road connecting Luxor and Karnak. Stretching over...
- Travel Item
http://www.businesstravellerindia.com/200601/getaway01.shtmlYet another travel feature, focusing on Luxor, with some photos: "Luxor, described as the world's greatest open-air museum is chock-a-block with ancient monuments, the scale and the grandeur...
Egypt
World of the Pharaohs
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/travel/13356398.htm
A travel article looking at Luxor and Cairo: "There's nothing like absorbing history hands-on. That's why I am enduring, er -- enjoying -- 100-degree-plus July heat, a daily dust bath, endless hassling from souvenir vendors and pushing through busloads upon busloads of tourists.
Physical challenges aside, the trip is worth it. In fact, the wealth of such unfathomably old monuments and fascinating details of such an advanced, ancient civilization are almost too much to take in. Luxor is the epicenter of a journey back to the world of the pharaohs. Located along the banks of the muddy Nile River in central Egypt, the modern town sprung up on the site of ancient Thebes, the capital of a newly unified nation 4,000 years ago. You don't have to go far to start sightseeing. In the middle of town sit the ruins of the grand Luxor Temple, built of huge blocks of stone and guarded by massive statues of the kings of the day, standing and seated with ramrod stiffness."
A travel article looking at Luxor and Cairo: "There's nothing like absorbing history hands-on. That's why I am enduring, er -- enjoying -- 100-degree-plus July heat, a daily dust bath, endless hassling from souvenir vendors and pushing through busloads upon busloads of tourists.
Physical challenges aside, the trip is worth it. In fact, the wealth of such unfathomably old monuments and fascinating details of such an advanced, ancient civilization are almost too much to take in. Luxor is the epicenter of a journey back to the world of the pharaohs. Located along the banks of the muddy Nile River in central Egypt, the modern town sprung up on the site of ancient Thebes, the capital of a newly unified nation 4,000 years ago. You don't have to go far to start sightseeing. In the middle of town sit the ruins of the grand Luxor Temple, built of huge blocks of stone and guarded by massive statues of the kings of the day, standing and seated with ramrod stiffness."
- Travel: Cruising The Royal Route Of The Pharaohs
Ottawa Citizen (Mark Angelo) As our plane approached the town of Aswan in southern Egypt, I could see the meandering Nile below. Beyond the line of the river and the green ribbon of lush irrigated lands that paralleled it, there was nothing but the vast...
- Hawass Dig Days - Obelisks
Al Ahram Weekly Obelisks were signs of victory, and the inscriptions carved on them record the titles and achievements of the Pharaohs. The tip of an obelisk, called the capstone or pyramidion, was cased with gold, its brilliant shine connecting it with...
- Travel: A View From The Nile (part 2)
http://tinyurl.com/f72gu (venturacountystar.com) Second of a two part travel item charting a trip to Egypt. In this installment, the writer, Barry Pollack, travels to Philae, Edfu, and Luxor (the Temple of Luxor, the Valley of the Kings and Karnak), and...
- Making Luxor Into A Living Museum
http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=6683Dr. Samir Farag, president of the Supreme Council of Luxor, has big plans for his city and the wealth of antiquities there. One plan is to restore the road connecting Luxor and Karnak. Stretching over...
- Travel Item
http://www.businesstravellerindia.com/200601/getaway01.shtmlYet another travel feature, focusing on Luxor, with some photos: "Luxor, described as the world's greatest open-air museum is chock-a-block with ancient monuments, the scale and the grandeur...