Egypt
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- 20th Century Courthouse In Alexandria Makes Egypt's Antiquities List
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) The distinguished Court of First Instance courthouse in downtown Mahatet Raml, Alexandria made Egypt’s Antiquities list. Accordingly, it will be subject to restoration. The court building was inaugurated in 1937 by King...
- Egyptian Music's Ancient Past Resurrected ?
Al Masry Al Youm With photos. Last Wednesday, ancient met modern at El Sawy Culture Wheel when the band Welad el-Faraana (Children of the Pharaohs), wearing jeans and t-shirts and playing pharaonic and Nubian instruments, resurrected the music of their...
- Closing In On Cleopatra?
VOA News They are among history's most famous lovers - Antony and Cleopatra, the Roman warrior and the Egyptian queen. From Shakespeare to Hollywood, their story has been told many times. Now, Egypt's top archeologist, with his own touch of Hollywood...
- Feature: Medieval Fustat
Heritage Key (Gary Shaw) With photos. At first glance the remains of Fustat are more like an abandoned opencast mine than a medieval capital city – an impression created at its edges where the grey sloping ground enters the great depression of the excavated...
- Modern Cemeteries To Be Removed
This is an article from Dr. Zahi Hawass on the removal of cemeteries which have been built over Pharaonic monuments including at Saqqara where new tombs have been constructed near the pyramids of Pepi I, II and Isesi. These modern cemeteries also include...
Egypt
Architects try to revive pharaonic style
http://tinyurl.com/zojm3 (alarabonline.org)
Reactions for and against a modern building designed with Pharaonic Egypt in mind: "Adorned with lotus and papyrus columns, Egypt's top courthouse evokes the pharaonic temples of the country's ancient past. The Supreme Constitutional Court, built in 2000, marked the most prominent attempt in decades to revive the pharaonic style in Egypt. On the east bank of the Nile south of Cairo, the court has inspired more attempts to imitate the ancient. The government has erected a series of neo-pharaonic buildings, the style apparently striking a chord with officials. Builders are putting the finishing touches to the gold-rimmed tops of columns decorating a government building on one of Cairo's main roads." For anyone who cannot access the article, a number of architects have expressed disaproval of the new building because it is both cliched and out of touch with modern ideas, whilst both Zahi Hawass and Salima Ikram have given it the thumbs up.
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- 20th Century Courthouse In Alexandria Makes Egypt's Antiquities List
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) The distinguished Court of First Instance courthouse in downtown Mahatet Raml, Alexandria made Egypt’s Antiquities list. Accordingly, it will be subject to restoration. The court building was inaugurated in 1937 by King...
- Egyptian Music's Ancient Past Resurrected ?
Al Masry Al Youm With photos. Last Wednesday, ancient met modern at El Sawy Culture Wheel when the band Welad el-Faraana (Children of the Pharaohs), wearing jeans and t-shirts and playing pharaonic and Nubian instruments, resurrected the music of their...
- Closing In On Cleopatra?
VOA News They are among history's most famous lovers - Antony and Cleopatra, the Roman warrior and the Egyptian queen. From Shakespeare to Hollywood, their story has been told many times. Now, Egypt's top archeologist, with his own touch of Hollywood...
- Feature: Medieval Fustat
Heritage Key (Gary Shaw) With photos. At first glance the remains of Fustat are more like an abandoned opencast mine than a medieval capital city – an impression created at its edges where the grey sloping ground enters the great depression of the excavated...
- Modern Cemeteries To Be Removed
This is an article from Dr. Zahi Hawass on the removal of cemeteries which have been built over Pharaonic monuments including at Saqqara where new tombs have been constructed near the pyramids of Pepi I, II and Isesi. These modern cemeteries also include...