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Police in Egypt arrest 155 for failing to keep Ramadan fast
Egyptian newspapers and human rights activists announced that 155 people were detained by police forces in Aswan, southern Egypt, for publicly eating, drinking or smoking during daylight hours in the holy month of Ramadan. However, many of those arrested said that the arrests were random. Some claimed they were actually fasting when they were rounded... »
Egypt president pledges improved care for Nubians
Egypt’s president pledged Wednesday to promote development and care for the Nubians, as criticism to his government’s treatment of Egypt’s ancient but highly marginalized minority mounts. President Hosni Mubarak, in remarks made after touring Aswan province where many Nubians live, said his government’s plans to relocate many Nubians from their traditional dwellings along the Nile... »
The heritage of Lower Nubia
Image via Wikipedia The history and culture of Lower Nubia was always inextricably intertwined with Egypt’s. Yet, the relationship was never clearly defined. Lower Nubia was culturally contiguous with Egypt proper, but it was never fully incorporated into the “Two Lands”. Why Lower Nubia continued to be designated as something of a Wild West by the... »
UNESCO celebrates Nubian salvage at Aswan
Fifty years on from the earnest appeal sent out from Egypt and Sudan for an international salvage campaign for the Nubian monuments, UNESCO will be celebrating this important anniversary with the conference: ‘Lower Nubia: Revisiting memories of the past, envisaging perspectives for the future’ to be held on March 21-24. With the construction of the... »
The Winter Vault
Award-winning poet and novelist Anne Michaels gives us in The Winter Vault a love story of extraordinary depth and complexity, a mesmerizing tale that juxtaposes historical events with the most intimate moments of individual lives. In 1964, a newly married Canadian couple settles into a Nile River houseboat moored below the towering figures of Abu... »
More discoveries beneath the Nile in Aswan
Archaeologists have discovered a portico, or covered entryway that once led to the temple of the ram-headed fertility god Khnum, beneath the surface of the Nile River. A team of Egyptian archaeologist-divers found the portico in Aswan while conducting the first-ever underwater surveys of the Nile, which began earlier this year. The temple of Khnum was... »
Canal Linking Ancient Egypt Quarry to Nile Found
Experts have discovered a canal at an Aswan rock quarry that they believe was used to help float some of ancient Egypt’s largest stone monuments to the Nile River. It has long been suspected that ancient workers moved the massive artifacts directly to their final destinations over waterways. Ancient artwork shows Egyptians using boats or barges... »
Archaeologists go in the Nile
An Egyptian archaeological team will track down the locations of the Nile river’s ancient sunken treasures. “The survey will cover the area between the quarries in Aswan and Abydos. Over the centuries this was a significant area – either for the ancient Egyptians or the many rulers of the country who followed. The granite quarries... »
