Recording the tomb of Tutankhamun from factum-arte on Vimeo. The high resolution recording and production of an exact facsimile of the Tomb of Tutankhamun is part of a major initiative by the Supreme Council of Antiquities to preserve the tombs in the Valley of the Kings while making important tombs that are either closed or... »
The American-Egyptian mission from Yale University has stumbled upon what appears to be the remains of a substantial settlement. The city is a thousand years earlier than the major surviving ancient remains at the Umm Mawagir area in Kharga Oasis. The settlement is dated to the Second Intermediate Period (ca.1650-1550 BC) and was discovered during... »
On very rare occasions you get to watch a movie so enticing that you never want it to end. Such is the case of Cairo Time, a stunningly beautiful film that leaves you wanting for yet another chance to reach a conclusion that is simply not there. Everyone who sees Cairo Time feels as much... »
Egypt has, for the last two decades, been encouraging university graduates to leave the city and grow food on dry, uncultivated land. It all began, 20 years ago, in Egypt’s capital, Cairo. A national newspaper announced that the government was trying to solve the unemployment problem for young graduates – and there were several options. One... »
Image via Wikipedia Only eight months after the new Ashmolean was opened by the Queen following a £61m extension scheme, the museum has submitted plans to refurbish its Egyptian galleries. The work would focus on part of the ground floor in the original Ashmolean building in Beaumont Street which was largely untouched by the major expansion. It... »
