Archive for June, 2010

Image via Wikipedia Ancient Egyptian women were represented by a number of goddesses, such as the goddess “Isis” who was the goddess of fertility and worshipped as the ideal mother, the goddess “Hathor” who personified motherhood and was worshipped as a protector, “Sekhmet” the warrior goddess, and “Bastet” the protector goddess. Upper Egypt also worshipped... »

Image via Wikipedia A tourist bus arranged by Japanese travel agency JTB Corp.’s group company overturned Friday in southern Egypt, injuring 11 Japanese passengers, including a tour guide, and critically wounding an Egyptian guide. Of those injured, a 59-year-old man and a 31-year-old man from Tokyo suffered broken arms, and the Egyptian guide was left unconscious. The... »

Image via Wikipedia R u gng 2 pick me ↑ @ 4 4 driving lsns? My ss teach wants 2 talk 2 me @ my pp. or , but I hope . ‹3 A new global language is being developed, inspired by “new media,” the surge in technology and the ubiquity of... »

Image via Wikipedia The distant world, orbiting a bright star in the constellation of Pegasus 150 light years from Earth, is known officially as HD 209458b, but has been nicknamed Osiris, the god of the Egyptian underworld. Osiris races around its yellow, Sun-like star at a distance of around seven million kilometres (4.37 million miles) —... »

From June 24 to November 28, 2010 the Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung will present the exhibition “Sahure – Death and Life of a Great Pharaoh.” Ruling Egypt from about 2428 to 2416 BC, Sahure was a both politically and culturally outstanding king of the Fifth Dynasty and thus a prominent representative of the Old Kingdom, the “Age... »

Egypt Yellow Pages Ltd, has just released its new print directory, updating its listings for Cairo, Giza, Alexandria, and the surrounding areas. Valid from June 2010 until June 2011, the new directory, offers the most comprehensive source for business listings in Egypt in both Arabic and English. The directory features an alphabetical index, which makes it... »

An oil spill off the Egyptian Red Sea coast of Hurghada threatening to damage marine life in the area has prompted environmental agencies to demand tighter regulation of offshore oil platforms. Large quantities of oil have appeared in recent days around the resorts of Hurghada which draw millions of tourists who come to dive or... »

Austrian archaeologists located a 3,600-year-old underground city in Egypt, believed to part of the ancient city of Avaris, the capital of the Hyksos. The city was located during the Austrian mission’s excavations in the Tel al-Dabaa area, north-east of Cairo, using a radar. The photos taken give an overview of the urban planning of the city,... »

Image via Wikipedia A new sound-and-light show at Edfu Temple was inaugurated on 1 June, an impressive LE35 million project managed and completed in 18 months by Misr Company for Sound, Light and Cinema, headed by Chairman and Managing Director Essam Abdel-Hady. In an intriguing juxtaposition of state-of-the-art technology and Ptolemaic history, the show employs four... »

The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) was always intended to be an architectural masterpiece, a fit home for the display of the most outstanding objects produced by Egypt’s 7,000 years old civilisation. After eight years of work, the first two phases of the project — including a power plant, fire station, fully equipped conservation centre with... »