Giza

Two Days trip to Cairo from Sharm by flight - Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt

TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008

Excursions from Sharm el Sheikh

NATO deployment - Alexandria, Egypt

TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008

My travels for the past 50 years

Day trip to Cairo and Giza from Hurghada by flight - Hurghada, Red Sea and Sinai, Egypt

TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008

Excursions from Hurghada

Egypt – a potential market for Vietnamese seafood

Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008

Viet Nam earned US$20.5 million from seafood exports to Egypt in 2007, up 4.7 times compared to 2006. In particularly, its export to Egypt in the first half of this year reached 21.5 million. Egypt is a new but potential market for Vietnamese seafood, including tra and basa catfish. Egypt consumes around 2 million tonnes of seafood each year, around 30,000 tonnes of which are imported. Main

Egypt to Build the ‘Great Egyptian Museum’

Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008

The Egyptian Culture Minister Farouk Hosni has announced that Egypt was building the ‘Great Egyptian Museum’, which he said will be completed in 2011, describing it as an architectural miracle by all standards. Farouk Hosni said at a press conference following his meeting Tuesday with the international team charged with developing its designs that this great [...]

Day trip to Cairo from Shaem el Sheikh - Hurghada, Red Sea and Sinai, Egypt

TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008

Day trip from Hurghada to Cairo

Book Review: The Secret of the Great Pyramid

Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008

Publishers Weekly The Secret of the Great Pyramid: How One Man’s Obsession Led to the Solution of Ancient Egypt’s Greatest Mystery by Bob Brier and Jean-Pierre Houdin. Collins/ Smithsonian Since its construction 4,500 years ago for Pharaoh Khufu, the Great Pyramid of Giza has remained an engineering mystery. According to Egyptologist Brier (The Murder of Tutankhamen) and architect Houdin, the monument...

Naomi Campbell’s Sphinx connection

models blog.... as never seen on TV (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008

Naomi Campbell felt a spiritual connection to the Great Sphinx of Giza. The supermodel spoke to the half-lion, half-human Egyptian landmark while on a personal tour conducted by secretary general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities Zahi Hawass. Hawass said: “She is particularly interested in the Great Sphinx of Giza. She claims she feels a great [...]

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Naomi Campbell’s Sphinx connection

Popstarshow.com (Free subscription) | 24/08/2008

Naomi Campbell felt a spiritual connection to the Great Sphinx of Giza. The supermodel spoke to the half-lion, half-human Egyptian landmark while on a personal tour conducted by secretary general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities Zahi Hawass.

In Cairo - Cairo, Egypt

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Egypt, Spain and Loads of Tomartos

Touchdown in Cairo

Travelblog (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008

It was only a few hours flight from Dubai to Egypt. The airport wasnt so great. When we were landing I saw a lot of rubbish just beside the runways and people just all over the place.When we got to the terminal I was kinda shocked to see an airport of this standard.... I guess it was my first taste of the good old culture shock. The airport pretty much looked like an old bathroom that had never

International Space Station Imagery: Pyramids of Dashur, Egypt

Archaeonews (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008

Pyramids of Dashur, Egypt are featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 17 crewmember on the International Space Station. While the pyramids of Giza are perhaps the most famous, there are several other ancient Egyptian royal necropolis ("city of the dead") sites situated along the Nile River and its delta. One of these sites is located near the village of Dashur (upper right). The

Giza Plateau Upgrade: Phase 1

Talking Pyramids (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008

Map of the Giza Plateau Nevine El-Aref recaps aspects of the first phase of the project aimed at upgrading the Giza Plateau and of last week’s official tour of the Giza Plateau by Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni and Zahi Hawass, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), to inaugurate the first phase of [...]

The Giza Archives: Site Update

Talking Pyramids (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008

The Giza Archives The Giza Archives have been updated with a range of new items. Here are some of them as listed on their front page: # See everything! Just click the ‘go’ button. # Download hundreds of free Giza books and articles. more… # Search images by content with MET (multilingual Egyptological Thesaurus). more… # 4,464 pages [...]

Pandora: Bigmouth strikes again: 'Don't buy my new DVD'

The Independent (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008

Few people, surely, form feuds with quite the same level of gusto as the Mancunian miserablist Morrissey.