Archive for April, 2010

According to a report on South Hall Travel, more people are booking flights to Egypt, as a result of the popular TV series Tropic of Cancer, which started airing on BBC March 14, 2010. Simon Reeve, author and broadcaster, has been traveling around little-known regions of the world for a series of BBC television documentaries.... »

Image via Wikipedia The Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology at UC Berkeley will display rare artifacts from its vast Egyptian collection in a fascinating exhibition that will explore the conservation of our cultural past. Included are crocodile mummies that recently underwent CT scans at Stanford Medical School as well as statuary, mummy portraits, amulets, and... »

The Question of Evil in Ancient Egypt examines relevant sources from the Old Kingdom Pyramid Texts (c. 24th century B.C.E.) to the Graeco-Roman Period inscriptions (2nd century C.E.) in order to understand the way the ancient Egyptians tackled the question of the origin of evil in the world. It also investigates whether the world... »

King Tut is back in the Big Apple after three decades, the last stop of an eight city tour. Seen already by more than 7 million elsewhere, Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs has more artifacts and a larger space at the Discovery Times Square Exposition, including, for the first time anywhere, an... »

He deserves to be hanged, but your knowledge of King Tutankhamen might save the obnoxious kangaroo from the gallows. Find out how much you know about the golden boy king in this special version of Hangaroo with an Egyptian twist. »

Egypt’s first large-scale solar thermal facility is nearing completion. A parabolic trough solar field, incorporating nearly 2,000 collector units and covering 130,000 square meters, has been installed at the Kuraymat project site, located about 100 kilometers south of Cairo. The solar power plant is scheduled to become fully operational in the fall. The 150 MW... »

Archaeologists have uncovered bronze coins bearing the image of ancient Egypt ruler Ptolemy III near Lake Qarun in Fayum oasis, around 120 kilometres (75 miles) from Cairo. Also found by the Egyptian team for the first time at Fayum were necklaces made of ostrich eggshell, in addition to parts of a whale skeleton around 42... »

Dassault Systèmes (DS), a world leader in 3D software solutions and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), one of the world’s most important encyclopedic art museums, today announced that they will join forces in a strategic innovation partnership to bring the power of industrial and experiential 3D to the domain of archaeology. One of... »

Daylight saving time (DST) will begin in Egypt at midnight (00:00) between Thursday, April 29, and Friday, April 30, in 2010. However, there will be no DST during Ramadan, which lasts from Wednesday, August 11, until Thursday, September 9, 2010*. The daylight saving end date is not confirmed, according to Egypt’s State Information Service. DST is... »

Image by bee! via Flickr Although hotels are overbooked by 7 percent in the Red Sea resort town of Hurghada and well over 80 percent in Sharm El Sheikh, hotel owners have been ordered (by Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism) not to expel guests who have overstayed their reservations. Tour companies must continue to foot the bill... »