Egypt
Clearly the breath from thousands of tourists is damaging the painted walls of Egyptian tombs.
http://www.rfi.fr/actuen/articles/116/article_4817.asp
and here:
http://news.brisbanetimes.com.au/breaking-news-world/egypt-warns-pharaohs-tombs-could-disappear-20090818-ep8h.html
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When building tombs the ancient Egyptian's used fissures to build tombs as an easy path to carve unfortunately this also lend them to being flooded. http://www.livescience.com/history/091019-egyptian-tombs-flood.html...
Egypt
Saving Tombs
Clearly the breath from thousands of tourists is damaging the painted walls of Egyptian tombs.
http://www.rfi.fr/actuen/articles/116/article_4817.asp
and here:
http://news.brisbanetimes.com.au/breaking-news-world/egypt-warns-pharaohs-tombs-could-disappear-20090818-ep8h.html
- 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...
- The Eternity Of The Desert
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine el-Aref) Following 16 years of closure to the public, the Al-Muzawaka necropolis in Dakhla Oasis will soon be back on the tourists track, reports Nevine El-Aref Restorers and archaeologists have been working on the Roman necropolis...
- Four New Kingdom Tombs On Elephantine
This article is on the four New Kingdom tombs recently discovered by locals on Elephantine island and the owners of those tombs. The engraved and painted walls in the tombs are likely to fill in more on the history of the island and its governance. Photo:...
- The Tomb Of Tutankhamun
The tomb of Tutankhamun will be closed to visitors soon in an effort to protect the tomb and it's painting from a thousand visitors a day. In an effort to still please tourists Dr. Zahi Hawass has commissioned a replica tomb. There seems little choice...
- Carving Tombs
When building tombs the ancient Egyptian's used fissures to build tombs as an easy path to carve unfortunately this also lend them to being flooded. http://www.livescience.com/history/091019-egyptian-tombs-flood.html...