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Court rules German university must hand over valuable Egyptian collection
A German court has ruled that a collection of 150 ancient Egyptian objects once owned by a Jewish professor was sold forcibly and below fair value to the University of Leipzig back in 1936, when Germany was under Nazi rule. Georg Steindorff, then head of Leipzig’s Egyptology department, had possession of the objects since 1915... »
Plan to fight African lion for Egypt Tourism
A modern-day Egyptian gladiator has reportedly announced plans to fight an African lion. Al-Sayed al-Eassawy claims to have the Ministry of Interior’s blessings to fight the animal in front of the Giza pyramids, all in an exceedingly misguided effort to revive the country’s tourism industry. From Egypt’s Daqahlyia Governorate, the stunt man purchased the... »
Ancient pauper graves unearthed near Giza
Image via Wikipedia At a scholarly conference in Atlanta archaeologists announced that the burials of 400 people – dating between 2,700 and 2,000 years ago – have been excavated on the Giza plateau in Egypt. The discovery was made by researchers with AERA (Ancient Egypt Research Associates), a group led by Mark Lehner that conducts work... »
Egyptian archaeologists unearth 4,500 year old tomb
A tomb dating to the 5th dynasty, 2465-2323 B.C., belonging to a priest who headed the mortuary cult of the pharaoh Khafre, have been discovered close to the great pyramids at Giza. According to Zahi Hawass, the discovery could indicate a larger necropolis near the Giza plateau. The unique architectural features of the tomb include... »
Truly a Gem of a Museum
The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) was always intended to be an architectural masterpiece, a fit home for the display of the most outstanding objects produced by Egypt’s 7,000 years old civilisation. After eight years of work, the first two phases of the project — including a power plant, fire station, fully equipped conservation centre with... »
Initial stages of new Grand Egyptian Museum completed
The Grand Egyptian Museum now has a power plant, a fire station and its own conservation center, and over the next two years it will become home to some 100,000 artifacts. The main achievement so far is the construction of the new conservation center to restore damaged antiquities. Established with Japanese technical assistance, the center... »
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... »
Giza Archives Project goes 3D
Dassault Systèmes (DS), a world leader in 3D software solutions and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), one of the world’s most important encyclopedic art museums, today announced that they will join forces in a strategic innovation partnership to bring the power of industrial and experiential 3D to the domain of archaeology. One of... »
Giza pyramid climber arrested by military commandos as thousands below watch
A 24 year old man named Hassan Farooq Anter was apprehended by military commandos who dropped from a helicopter poised on top of the pyramid of Khafre, the second largest of the Giza pyramids, and wrestled him aboard the craft. The entire operation took about ten minutes, according to one of the many witnesses... »
67 families in Giza evicted for new housing development project
Sixty-seven families in the Warraq and Imbaba Airport area in North Giza have been evicted from their homes after the land was sold to investors to establish new housing projects. The Ministry of Housing, Utilities, and Urban Development had initially reportedly promised to evict the families only when the alternative housing units were ready. The... »
