Archive for May, 2010

Image by Bakar_88 via Flickr A court in Egypt has ordered the Coptic church to allow its faithful to remarry, quashing an appeal by the head of the church. “By law, a Christian can remarry and the constitution guarantees his rights to have a (new) family. The appeal by Pope Shenuda III to prevent Copts from... »

A 19th dynasty tomb that had been missing since the late 19th century have been rediscovered by an Egyptian archaeology team working in the ancient necropolis of Saqqara, led by Cairo University archaeology professor Ola el-Aguizy. The tomb belongs to an ancient mayor of Memphis, called Ptahmes, who also served as army chief, overseer of... »

Image via Wikipedia “Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt,” opens Saturday at the Franklin Institute and runs through Jan. 2, 2011. The 18,000-square-foot exhibition, which will travel to four other North American cities, includes about 150 artifacts ranging in size from coins to massive statues and weighing a total of 30 tons. Arts... »

Passionate about pyramids? Fascinated by pharaohs? Have you got what it takes to be an Ancient Egypt expert? Then check out this action-packed kit and discover this incredible land and its people. Open up this cool slipcase and explore the clip art CD packed with 100s of images to download, read the Eyewitness book... »

Egypt’s celebrated tele-dramatist Osama Anwar Okasha, noted for his works on the nation’s socio-political changes, died yesterday at a Cairo hospital. He was 69. Born in the Nile Delta town of Tanta, Okasha studied sociology at the Ain Shams University Faculty of Arts in Cairo where he graduated in 1962. He worked as a government... »

Slitherine’s Development Director Iain McNeil has announced today that History Egypt: Engineering an Empire will be available for both PS3 and PSP Minis via PSN. Egypt Engineering an Empire is a strategy game inspired by the Engineering an Empire TV series by History and games like Civilization and Advance Wars. The TV series circles the globe... »

To honor Susan Weeks’s memory and work on ancient Egyptian art, Egyptian and Bedouin folk arts and crafts, ethnoarchaeology, ancient and modern ceramic studies, natural history, and techniques of scientific illustration, her family, friends and colleagues have established the Susan Howe Weeks Memorial Fund at the American University in Cairo. The fund will be used... »

History, culture and nature. The beauty of Egypt -ancient and modern- is famous internationally. Now, visitors from all over the world can enjoy all these and even more in a new complex of ecologically friendly villas in Luxor. (PRWEB) May 26, 2010 — Villas in Luxor from Flats in... »

A 29-year-old Belgian tourist is in a serious condition in hospital after he was attacked with a knife by an Egyptian man in the city of Aswan. The German Press Agency dpa reported that the attacker had been a lecturer at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo, and was known to have psychological problems. Police ruled... »

The discovery happened about a week ago, but the earliest report appears to come from Luxor Times Magazine blog. More recent reports raise the number of tombs to 57. Egyptian authorities has just announced the remarkable discovery by an Egyptian mission headed by Dr. Abdel Rahman El-Aydi, of 45 ancient tombs and four cemeteries at... »