Archive for September, 2010

Although the ancient Egyptians left no recipes, their staple diet, according to Magda Mehdawy, author of “The Pharaoh’s Kitchen”, consists like today, mainly of bread and whatever produce the land yields that is onions, garlic, lentils, leeks, turnips, radish , lettuce, and cucumbers. Most of these vegetables were eaten raw. Bread was a staple food... »

Image via Wikipedia Made of two beaten and burnished sheets of gold, Tutankhamun’s somewhat idealized likeness weighs 10.23 kg (22.5 pounds). The pharaoh’s mask portrays Tutankhamun wearing the royal nemes headdress, its stripes of opaque blue glass imitating precious lapis lazuli. The vulture Nekhbet and cobra Wadjet, divine symbols of dominion over... »

Image by Montu via Flickr Dolphins seen swimming in the tiny pool of a villa in Egypt’s Red Sea coastal town of Hurghada are part of plans to erect a dolphinarium in Makadi Bay, in an effort to attract more tourism. Leading the campaign to house the dolphins for visitors viewing are hotel owners in... »

Image via Wikipedia A three-day conference opened on Sunday with experts hoping to understand how the ancient Egyptians dealt with climate change, the first of its kind to be held in Egypt. The French Institute of Oriental Archaeology (IFAO) has joined forces with France’s national research centre CNRS and Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities to create... »

Image via Wikipedia Heineken’s Egypt unit is focusing on building its wine business, and wants to shift sales from tourists towards local customers. Heineken bought the formerly state-owned Al Ahram Beverages Company, which dominates Egypt’s beer and wine markets, for about $300 million in 2002. Wine brings in about a fifth of Al Ahram’s more than 2... »

Image by WomEOS via Flickr Crystal Lagoons, creator of the world’s largest crystalline lagoon will showcase what will become the largest navigable crystalline lagoon in the world, in Sharm El Sheikh on Egypt’s Red Sea coast, at the Dubai World Trade Center on 4-7 October 2010. The company will unveil 50 of its ongoing and planned... »

Chronogram Presents: John Anthony West in Kingston NY from John Anthony West on Vimeo. John Anthony West is an Egypt scholar and the most prominent champion of the “Symbolist” school of Egyptology — which demonstrates that the ancient Egyptian religion was in no sense pre-rational superstition, but rather a coherent doctrine, consistent with the... »

Image via Wikipedia Grenada is set to receive further assistance from the government of Egypt for the restoration of a number of heritage sites that were damaged or destroyed during the passage of Hurricane Ivan in 2004. The provision of help to Grenada in the areas of tourism, education, pharmaceuticals and agriculture were also discussed Thursday... »

Image via Wikipedia The rule is not mentioned in the Egyptian ministry of tourism website, but the new London Cab taxi service is forbidden from offering transportation to Egyptian citizens within Cairo except from the airport, according to a report by Al Masry Al Youm. The fleet of cars is identical to the Hackney carriages used... »

Image via Wikipedia There is no current treatment for Premature Ovarian Failure, which affects one percent of all women. It causes their ovaries to stop producing eggs 10 or even 30 years earlier than normal leaving them infertile. But scientists in Cairo, Egypt, have come up with a method which they say could be developed to help... »