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Tag Archives: Egypt
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Earlier this year, the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the discovery of a 52-foot-long papyrus scroll of the Book of the Dead discovered in the necropolis of Saqqara. This is the first complete ancient papyrus found in Egypt in … Continue reading
Making Your Mark
Most of us don’t give a second thought to the greatest human achievement in history. But now the British Museum’s new interactive exhibition Writing: Marking Your Mark is celebrating more than 5,000 years of our most amazing legacy. The exhibit, which runs … Continue reading
Painting With Light
For 2,000 years the Temple of Dendur sat on the banks of the River Nile. In 1965, the government of Egypt gifted the Temple ruins to the United States and in 1978 it was rebuilt in the Sackler Wing of … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Architecture, Art, History, Museums, Tech, Tourism, USA
Tagged Egypt, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
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Egypt and Its Monuments
A book buyer just requested some images from this fantastic 1908 edition of Egypt And Its Monuments by Robert Hichens with illustrations by Jules Guérin so I thought I’d share them here as well. Over the years, I’ve bought and … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Art, Books, History, Middle East, Tourism, Travel Writing, USA, Writing
Tagged Egypt, Illustration, Jules Guerin, Robert Hichens
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Out of Egypt
Artist, cartoonist and animator Nina Paley has been creating amazing animated versions of the Biblical Exodus story and the ten plagues of Egypt. The video below is the last installment, the “Tenth Plague : Death of the Firstborn Egyptians”, with … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Animation, Art, Middle East
Tagged Bible, Egypt, Exodus, Moses, Passover
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Bring Your Own Popcorn
On the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula, just outside of the Egyptian resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh, hidden at the base of a desert mountain range, sits an odd sight : hundreds of seats for an outdoor movie theater. … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Middle East, movies, Photography, Tourism
Tagged Cinema, Egypt, Sharm el-Sheikh
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Sleep Like an Egyptian
Located at Egypt’s Siwa Oasis, just thirty miles from the Libyan border, the handsomely restored Adrere Amellal Hotel is an unlikely luxury eco-lodge. Set lakeside, the hotel was built at a site that has seen human habitation on and off … Continue reading
Life Does Not Go On
Literature has been caught up in the protests that have now entered their seventh day in Egypt. The annual Cairo book fair, due to have been held this week, has been abandoned, with many foreign exhibitors left stranded after failing … Continue reading
Some Good News Out of Egypt
This weekend the Bibliotheca Alexandrina director Ismail Seragelin wrote an open letter explaining that Egyptian young people were protecting the famous Alexandria library from looters. “The world has witnessed an unprecedented popular action in the streets of Egypt. Led … Continue reading
Isn’t It Ironic ?
Isn’t it ironic that as mobs surround the Egyptian Museum in Cairo Dr. Zahi Hawass is again demanding that the Neues Museum in Berlin return the famous bust of Nefertiti. Hawass, the head of Egypt’s Council of Antiquities claims that … Continue reading
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