Tag Archive
Africa
akhenaten
Alexandria
Amarna
Amenhotep III
ancient egyptian religion
antiquities
Archaeology
Aswan
british museum
cairo
economy
Education
egyptian museum
Egyptology
environment
Fayoum
giza
hatshepsut
islam
Luxor
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Middle East
mummies
mummy
museum
Nefertiti
Nile
Nubia
Old Kingdom
Pharaoh
Pyramid
Red Sea
Saqqara
Sharm el-Sheikh
Sinai Peninsula
stolen antiquities
Supreme Council of Antiquities
tomb
Tourism
tutankhamen
Tutankhamun
Valley of the Kings
women
Zahi Hawass
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... »
Development plan along Lake Nasser unfair to Egyptian Nubians
Image via Wikipedia Nubians, now numbering about 3 million of Egypt’s 73 million people, have been leaving their stretch of the Nile valley for more than a century — some because of poverty, some because of efforts to tame the river’s annual floods. The first dam near Aswan was built in 1902; subsequent ones obliterated... »
