Apologies for the recent formatting problems in posts.  I have no idea why they happen.  They are always particularly bad with the Egyptian State Information Service posts.  The only thing I can suggest is that you link straight to the original article where the formatting problems render the post illegible.
I need to go to Wales […]

Naukawpolsce

Thousands of years ago, Egyptians knew many complicated methods of producing dyes. They used them to create many magnificent frescoes, which cover the walls of temples, royal palaces and tombs. Time and atmospheric factors have caused the paintings to lose their initial colours. The chemical reactions have modified the chemical […]

Times Online (Ben Mcintyre)

Numerous attempts have been made to stamp out the trade in stolen artefacts, and a number of prominent curators and dealers have recently been prosecuted for handling stolen goods. But still the market for looted antiquities expands, fed by a growing demand from the Middle East, Japan […]

Heritage Management
Left Coast Press have announced the launch of a new global journal edited by Kelley Hays-Gilpin and Edward Bridge (about whom full details can be found on the above page). It is introduced on the above page as follows:

Heritage Management is a global, peer-reviewed journal that provides a venue […]

Egypt State Information Service

An Egyptian archaeological mission managed to find a previously undiscovered part of Tutankhamun treasures.

The new discovered part was left by Howard Carter who discovered Tutankhamun tomb near the burial chamber at the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Upper Egypt.

Dr. Zahi Hawwas, the Secretary-General […]

AFP

Egyptian antiquities supremo Zahi Hawass insisted Tuesday that Tutankhamun was not black despite calls by US black activists to recognise the boy king’s dark skin colour.
“Tutankhamun was not black, and the portrayal of ancient Egyptian civilisation as black has no element of truth to it,” Hawass told reporters.
“Egyptians are not Arabs […]

World Hum (Chris Vourlias)
A better than average travelogue by a freelance writer (”Chris Vourlias is a freelance writer based out of Brooklyn, New York. He was last spotted on the coast of Kenya, losing dhow races and searching for free WiFi”). This has a different slant from most travel articles and […]

Times Online Travel Clinic
The Times Online has launched a new travel clinic, and yesterday’s query was “How to get from Cairo to Alexandria?”. This was answered by Sunday Times travel expert Richard Green:

The 136 miles between the capital and Alexandria is one of the busiest routes in the country, plied by […]

World Hum (Julia Ross)

At the outset of her new book, Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman’s Skiff, Rosemary Mahoney assures us she has no desire to die. She simply wants to row 120 miles down the world’s longest river, an unaccompanied Western woman gliding along the coffee-colored current, alone with […]

The Avenue of Sphinxes at the Temple of Luxor is a processional path that once extended all the way to Karnak Temple,, roughly parallel to the Nile, and there are moves today to reinstate it along its entire original path. The Avenue existed during the reign of Hatshepsut, and was used […]