Archive for August, 2010

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... »

Egypt recovered a Greco-Roman bust from Canada. Minister of Culture, Farouk Hosny, announced that the bust had been illegally smuggled out of Egypt but that the Canadian authorities were giving their full cooperation to repatriate the artifact. Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), said that... »

Image via Wikipedia An ambitious $100 million canal project to bring water from the Nile river to the Toshka desert 225 km south of Aswan in Egypt to convert arid regions into farmland and boost animal production has been completed. The Sheikh Zayed Canal project, funded by the Abu Dhabi government, is part of a bigger... »

When Jihan El Midany leads the Egyptian delegation into Saturday’s opening ceremony of the inaugural Youth Olympics, it will be a historic moment for her country. The 18-year-old pentathlete will become the first woman from Egypt to serve as a flag bearer at an Olympic event. And if she wins a medal as expected in... »

In Egypt, “Chinese gold”– an affordable imitation of the precious metal– has swamped the jewelry market, granting the poor a little taste of luxury. The current price of one gram of 24 carat gold in Egypt stands at 218 Egyptian pounds (38 dollars), while the Chinese version — a mixture of aluminium, iron and other... »

Perfumer Dawn Spencer Hurwitz of Boulder has re-created the fragrances of ancient Egypt in conjunction with the ” Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs” exhibit at the Denver Art Museum for its gift shop. Hurwitz researched those ancient scents through books at The British Museum in London, works from Egyptian archaeologists and some... »