Archive for February, 2011

Egypt’s newly-appointed minister of tourism, Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour, announced he has invited a number of world famous actors and media figures to organize shows and entertainment at Cairo’s Tahrir Square. They include Oprah Winfrey, the celebrated American media host. The minister stressed that Egypt will not become a cheap tourist destination offering programs for... »

Egypt belongs to Egyptians once again. Egypt Moving Forward is a non-profit Egyptian and foreigner initiative committed to the future growth of Egypt. The changes of Egypt have uncovered a long lost treasure: the people’s hope and freedom. Egypt Moving Forward was founded to embrace these changes and showcase the best of what Egypt has... »

In light of the historic events unfolding in Egypt, the National Geographic Channel is presenting a week of programs — Treasures of Egypt — that spotlight the antiquities of one of mankind’s most significant ancient cultures. Beginning tonight, Tuesday, February 22 and all week long at 8PM ET/PT, Treasures of Egypt will showcase five... »

For those who find overcrowded tourist attractions intimidating or intolerable, this is the perfect time to visit Egypt. And the weather is fine too. Following three weeks of closure the archaeological sites around Egypt are open to the public again. These include all the Pharaonic, Coptic, Islamic, and modern sites in Cairo, as well as... »

Tourism experts have called for making Tahrir Square in Egypt a tourist destination as a memorial to the 18-day protests staged in the square which resulted in the toppling of former President Hosni Mubarak’s regime. Hisham Zaazou, assistant to the tourism minister, said squares worldwide, especially in European countries, have become tourist destinations due to... »

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The missing statuette of Akhenaten holding an offering and wearing the blue crown appears to have been recovered, says Luxor Times. According to the above mentioned source, a 16 year old boy found the relic on the Egyptian Museum’s ground next to a garbage bin during the demonstrations at Tahrir Square and took it home.... »

With artefacts from the Ashmolean Museum, Bolton Museum and Art Gallery, the British Museum, Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, the Manchester Museum, the Foyle Foundation and The Henry Moore Foundation, Secret Egypt showcases over 200 Ancient Egyptian effects borrowed from the store rooms of the UK’s top Egyptology collections. Moving through six themes, it begins... »

Lunar Cubit is a site specific proposal to be constructed in Abu Dhabi just outside Masdar City, the world’s first zero carbon metropolis once completed. Lunar means relating to or involving the moon and cubit is the name given to the oldest recorded units of length; employed though antiquity, the oldest cubit being the royal... »

“Get out,” a crowd of 150 archaeology graduates chanted outside the office of Antiquities Minister Zahi Hawass, who threw in his lot with the old order when he accepted a Cabinet post in the last weeks of Hosni Mubarak’s rule. The demonstration in a leafy enclave of Cairo was one of many protests and strikes... »