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Can you tell me if it's possible to visit without a prior arrangement?
I will be stopping at on a cruise in two weeks time and rather than visit the temple there, I would really like to visit...
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I just wanted to say thanks to Brian for telling me about his driver to take me to . He was really good and I will definitely use him when I need a taxi on the west bank. In fact I have already...
The ancient city Helke has been discovered. Said to contain the sacred shrine of Poseidon, the city sank beneath the sea according to ancient legend and is thought to be one of the sources of the...
Although I don't like the name - iMalqata (trying to jump on a bandwagon?) - a daily blog on this iSite (I kid you not!) has just been started. Despite the trendy name, it's well worth a visit.
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Another one to bookmark, thanks Stan looks interesting
Anyone know of any progress in raising the collossal statue of R11 at the Ramasseum?
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I haven't been there since I posted the photos of the work so far, but at the time Christian Leblanc seemed extremely positive about it, so I would say it might be happening. Maybe a visitor could...
No one interviews Zahi Hawass, Egypt’s self-styled Indiana Jones of the east – he interviews himself, fist pounding on desk and spittle flying forth into the ether.
“Do I look like a minister to...
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Surely he will never be allowed back. He was Mubarak's man, pure and simple.
A few days ago Mohammed Ibrahim said that an announcement would be made about a new discovery in the Valley of the Kings. Now a source is saying in one of the papers that the Swiss team working there...
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From the Press Association:-
Archaeologists have unearthed the 1,100-year-old tomb of a female singer in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, officials revealed.
It is the only tomb of a woman not related...
The Mummification Museum lecture this Sunday at 7pm will be given by Dr Donald Ryan.
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Democracy does not mean disrespecting and disturbing other attendees of the lecture as well as the speaker. Phones should be off or on vibration or silent. To take a call, someone should step...
I found these films more or less by accident when browsing for Luxor in YouTube. The first one is of Egypt in 1934, but much of it is around Luxor.
Hope you like them.
Cairo in the 1930s...
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If you enjoyed them Diana then the hour wasn't wasted :)
A week or so ago, I asked whether anyone had heard the rumour that the fallen colossus of Rameses at the Ramesseum was going to be reconstructed. Yesterday, I got the answer from the horse's mouth -...
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When he first found the statue back in 1993 or 1994, Christian Leblanc told me he planned to reconstruct it. I even wrote an article that appeared in Ahram Weekly about the plans.
In only 40 day time on Feb 9th, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will have been The UK's monarch for 60 years and is the second longest reigning Monarch in the world to date.
Napoleon Bonaparte was an extraordinary and contradictory man: a warlord who saw himself as a champion of civilisation. One of his most ambitious attempts to prove himself a cultural as well as...
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Here is Zahi's blog post on the matter - no doubt some of us might find it a little hypocritical
This is a sad day for all of us who love Egypt. No one can believe that the Egyptian Scientific...
When a date is given here as to when anything is to open, what they mean is that it will not be open before that date, but will be open on some unspecified time after that date, and that could be...
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