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Ancient Egypt featured at Georgian Court Summer Lecture Series
Image via Wikipedia Georgian Court University at Lakewood, New Jersey offers a 21st-century look at ancient Egyptian civilization during Egypt Fest, the July 12-17 series of lectures and special activities focused on the land of pharaohs, pyramids, and priceless antiquities. Egyptologist Henry Ayoub of Cairo is the university’s special guest for the program that examines the... »
Egypt after Hatshepsut
Image via Wikipedia Approximately twenty years after her death, Hatshepsut’s nephew, Thutmose III, set about systematically, but very selectively, erasing her name and images from her monuments. Her “representations ... »
Red Bull X-Fighters World Tour at the Pyramids
Image via Wikipedia A crowd of 10000 fans is expected to pack the arena today in front of the Great Pyramids and Sphinx outside Giza as the Red Bull X-Fighters World Tour touches down in Egypt for the first time. The event features the usual collection of the world’s best FMX athletes: Nate Adams (USA), Robbie... »
New discoveries at Avenue of the Sphinxes in Luxor
Egyptian archaeologists carrying routine excavations at the so-called “Avenue of Sphinxes,” have unearthed the remains of a 5th century Egyptian Christian church and a “nilometer,” a structure used to measure the level of the Nile during floods. Divided into five sections, the Avenue of Sphinxes is now yielding a number of archaeological remains. On the second... »
Granite Ptolemaic king statue found
Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a 2,000-year-old granite statue of a Ptolemaic-era king at the temple of Taposiris Magna, west of the coastal city of Alexandria. The head of the Council of Antiquities, Zahi Hawass, says the statue could belong to King Ptolemy IV. The archeology team, led by Hawass and Dominican archeologist Kathleen Martinez, has... »
Jane Akshar reports on the progress of Sphinx Avenue in Luxor
The area is almost empty now. Seven hundred families were paid LE13 million to move and their houses destroyed. They had no other choice since they built on archaeological land. Excavators have found that material from the sphinxes were reused as foundation for houses and walls during Roman times and Medieval Luxor. There was also... »
Luxor Avenue of Sphinxes will open in March
An ancient passageway flanked by sphinxes and used for one the most important religious events in ancient Egypt will open to the public next March. Known as the Avenue of the Sphinxes, the 2.7 kilometre (1.7 mile) road was originally built by 18th dynasty Amenhotep III (1387–1349 BC) to connect the temples of Karnak and... »
Lego exhibition at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo
Image via Wikipedia A touring exhibition that has been traveling to museums and science centers across the globe has landed a permanent home at the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square. In “Secrets of the Pharaohs”, Egypt’s ancient monuments have been rebuilt in the basement exhibition area of the museum — entirely in Lego. Scale models of some... »
Improvements to the Great Sphinx Sound and Light Show
For more than three decades, the Great Sphinx has been illuminated by floodlights with colored filters, switched and dimmed in sync with a recorded narrative. Now the monument has been equipped with three lighting circuits, loaded with energy-saving halide PAR 64 floodlight lamps. They provide what Philips calls dramatic Accent Lighting; the lamps are angled... »
Egypt tourism expected to break even by year end
Image by khalid almasoud via Flickr Revenues and the number of visitors from last year are expected to be the same this year, as the effect of the global economic crisis appears to be less severe than expected. Currently, the Egyptian tourism industry is 4-5 percent below last year’s revenues. The Ministry of Tourism is investing even... »
