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Akhenaten a pacifist? Not so, according to findings from Toronto’s Egypt Symposium
Despite popular belief that he (Akhenaten) shied away from warfare, Professor Prof. James Hoffmeier, of Trinity International University, found evidence that the heretic-king kept a well-equipped, and supplied, fortress in the Sinai desert. It was located on the east side of the modern day Suez Canal. How well supplied? Well for starters the fortress had... »
Fewer Israeli tourists in Sinai this year
Image via Wikipedia According to the Israeli Airports Authority – the body responsible for the country’s international land crossings – only 66,000 Israelis passed through Taba in the first six months of this year. That is about half as many as in the same period of 2008. The number for all of 2004 was 400,000.... »
CHI Hotels & Resorts to open its First Sharm el Sheikh Hotel in July
Malta based CHI Hotels & Resorts (CHI) will open its newly built 351-room ‘Tiran Hotel’, as part of the Corinthia Beach Resort Sharm el Sheikh in Egypt, on 1st July of this year. The property is owned by Mr. Abdulhafiz Ali Mansouri’s Cyrene Tourism Investment Corporation of Egypt. Situated in one of Sharm’s finest locations... »
Shark kills French tourist off Egypt's Red Sea coast
Image via Wikipedia A shark attacked and killed a French tourist diving in a remote site off Egypt’s Red Sea coast on Tuesday, in the first fatal shark attack in the Arab country since 2004, state media and a French embassy official said. The woman’s leg showed visible bite marks, and she likely bled to death... »
Sinai fort may hold clues to ancient Egypt defenses
A military garrison of mud-brick and seashells unearthed in Egypt’s Sinai desert may be key to finding a web of pharaonic-era defenses at the northeast gateway to ancient Egypt. Archaeologists who discovered the 3,500-year-old garrison, where up to 50,000 soldiers could be posted in times of heightened tensions, say they hope inscriptions at Luxor’s Karnak... »
Egypt Beyond the Monuments
Egypt is most well known for its world famous archaeological sites. The Egyptian tourism product now offers visitors a much more diverse and contemporary range of experiences “Beyond the Monuments.” Egypt Beyond the Monuments: Golf In just 10 years, Egypt has gone from its original three standard-bearers to almost 20 world-class golf courses – with many... »
The Torquoise Goddess of Sinai
Image via Wikipedia From pre-dynastic times, early Egyptians made their way to the Sinai Peninsula over land or across the Red Sea in search of minerals. Their chief targets were turquoise and copper, which they mined and extracted in the Sinai mountains. Archaeologists examining evidence left 8,000 years ago have concluded that some of the very... »
Slowdown in Egypt tourism
Image by Angel Grotton via Flickr Tourism is an industry that is crucial to the health of the wider Egyptian economy, providing direct and indirect employment to 12.6 per cent of the workforce, according to official figures. After foreign direct investment, it is the country’s largest source of foreign revenue, bringing in $10.8bn in 2007-08... »
A not so glitzy way to live off Egypt tourism for Sinai Bedouins
An estimated 30,000 Bedouins in the Sinai peninsula are no longer able to make enough milk, butter and cheese off their animals. A severe drought over the past years has dried out available pasture land and is forcing them to eek out a meager existence out of the waste left by the coastal Egypt... »
A joyful encounter with the desert people of Egypt
Image by ©M o c c a . CHOCOLATA via Flickr Forty-five tribes have populated Egypt’s deserts for millennia and yet their existence remains a mystery to the country’s urban masses. The Characters of Egypt Festival aims to showcase their ways of life. The aim of the festival is to provide a meeting opportunity for... »
