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It is a hundred years this year since the world famous bust of Nefertiti was discovered at Tel el Amarna in the workshop of Tuthmosis in December 1912. Al-Ahram Weekly publish a lengthy article mapping the history of the discovery and the negotiations and arguments for it's return.
This should get people scrabbling around their attics… :cool:
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If I dig up another cat's head in my back garden that takes care of next year's spending spree, Who ever digging in ones back garden couldn't feed one's family ?…. :cool:
Q: Why ask a Copper for the time ?
A: Cause in the early days of time pieces the Copper always stole them, cause if you had one you obviously was a tea-leaf...:cool:
NB: 'not even a 'one-pipe...
January 2021 and much of the talk centres around the Covid-19 pandemic, vaccines, and just how serious the problem is, or not, in Egypt.
Many deny that there is virus. If they accept that it exists...
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During the Mubarak years Egypt could best be described as an oligarchy/kleptocracy.
What we have now is definitely an oligarchy....but perhaps not so much of a kleptocracy. Or maybe they’re just...
Good ol Miss's Queen, we have a history.
On Tuesday 2nd June 1953 it was sunny, I was hanging out of a window watching them roast a deer
on a bombed out house opposite in Swanage.
This house to be...