Egyptology News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) A new entrance for Luxor Temple and the reopening of Howard Carter's dig house as a museum are the main events commemorating the 87th anniversary of the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb, says Nevine El-Aref Waset is the pattern of every city... Mankind came into being within it, to find every city in its true name." These words uttered by an ancient Egyptian priest...
Egyptology News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) Luxor, the City of Palaces, counts among the world's greatest open-air museum. If offers awe-inspiring monuments alongside more homely pleasures, riding a horse-drawn caleche along the Corniche, sailing a felucca across the Nile and even taking to the air in a hot-air balloon. Haphazard development, though, has unfortunately compromised some of Luxor's charms. In response,...
Schnauzer and Schnauzer! (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
JD - Hi everyone - we're back home! Max - Which is more than Bertie is! We have sad news everyone - Bertie's gone BAD!! He was last seen in the streets of Luxor , Egypt, hanging around coffee shops and smoking sheeshas ! Bertie - "Honest - I never inhaled!" JD - We're quite shocked - we hope he finds his way back soon..... Bertie - "I feel strangely relaxed.....!" (Don't worry everyone...
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Cheap Tickets to Cairo from London Cheap Tickets to Cairo Cheap tickets provides you a complete package on Egypt tour. Get online reservation for hotels Flights car rentals and many more.Egypt is one big adventure exploring inside the Giza pyramids and the impressive temples and tombs seeing real mummies cruising on the River Nile between Luxor and Aswan in Upper Egypt with knowledgeable e
Schnauzer and Schnauzer! (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Please indulge me, if you will, to some random musings about my 'second home', my 'adopted country' that I love so much.... This is our last evening in Egypt. There is a wedding going on in the street outside - it's noisy and the decorations that have been put up are bright and garish (lots of tinsel!) and the tables are groaning under the weight of food that has been produced. It would feed half of...
Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Art Museum Journal (Stan Parchin) This story is two months old, but in light of the conservation of Tutankhamun's tomb I've added it. Better late than never! Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt and Director of Excavations at the Giza Pyramids, Saqqara and Bahariya Oasis, told Agence France-Presse on August 17, 2009 that the wall decorations of his country's...
a collection of thoughs (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
A remix of Kristen Bissaillon 's poem 'Cartouche' Hard to get off the roads. Abdicate, bypass. Hyper- naming homeworld. Even Voyager I ferries hieroglyphs. Turntables link sun and sun . Departing the heliosphere. Lose your face for days: an antidote. Words no longer family. Become aerial, chaos-bait. Palpate frequencies, patterns heard in pattern- less. What sun scries. Return to nothing but the impossible....
AROUND THE WORLD (support blog) (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Additions Cape Ann Images Simply Cape Ann Welcome to Crewe Queens Park Crewe Fort DeSoto Daily Photo Out of the Ordinary (my Jaipur Photoblog) Lake Oswego Living My Life Living Near The Nile in Luxor Egypt My Life Living Near The Nile in Luxor Egypt, part 2 Munich : Chronicles of an Intern Downtown Saint Petersburg Santa Cruz Daily Photo Vršovice Daily Photo Awakened blogs Baltimore Daily Photo...
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
EGYPT, said Flaubert, "is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust". And nowhere is this more true than in Sharm el Sheikh: in the past 20 years the Emerald City has risen out of the dust to become one of the world's most sought-after holiday resorts.
Six Meat Buffet (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
It’s not too far fetched. After all, his old law firm was representing at least 17 Gitmo detainees earlier this year. What? Is Lynne Stewart not available? She is out of jail after all and now celebrated on the college talk circuit. The last time New York put on a trial for the terrorists, the [...]
Kiwiblog (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
I left Luxor Thursday night. The Palace Nile hotel was very good value – only NZ$40 a night for a very good hotel room. Both Turkey and Egypt have cheap hotels. Interestingly though the food is not that cheap – for example the dinner would cost more than the accommodation. I took the sleeper train to [...]
Not A Ballerina (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Just after starting work in Germany, I had the chance to escape to Egypt for a week. It was my one and only "resort holiday", borne out of the necessity of a last-minute booking summer peak and the simple desire to go somewhere warmer than what the Germans were calling summer. As far as resort holidays go, it seemed quite OK (not that I have anything to compare it to), and I did get the chance...
Artmanjosephgrech (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
To day I celebrated a meaningless personal achievement having completed the 22.3 of Luxor Majong, this recovered the Statue of Isis as I finally completed the trek across Egypt, also recovering various treasures along the way and being promoted to various positions of employment as I progressed, Because I ended the task with 4 lives I received an additional 400000 bonus points which sent the final...
Schnauzer and Schnauzer! (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Hi everyone - female human here, sitting in sunny Egypt, writing this missive from the roof of our flat in Luxor which overlooks Nile and the Valley of the Kings! It is a sunny 34 degrees here on Friday the 13 th - which means it the most religious day of the week. The call to prayer is sounding all around us, mingling with the sounds of the donkeys, the geese, the cows, the cockerels and the faint...
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Itrsquos Sunday morning hellip Irsquom back on track.Wersquore in Edfu or ancient Djeba as it was once called. Ahmed tells us wersquore going to the Temple of Horus the falcon headed god. Usually we walk or get in a van. Not this time. Waiting at the dock are horse and buggy after horse and buggy. The buggies are black with silver trim some decorated more than others. Lots of colorful
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