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Just for clarification, although standard photography in museums or tombs in VoK requires a permit, cameras on mobile phones may be used FREE OF CHARGE from 1st August 2019.
Flash is still forbidden.
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Oh that's good. I've dumped my Canon DSLR equipment in favour of the new iPhone 11 pro which takes some really good quality photos.
Not content with taking bulldozers to the Valley of the Kings.....where he “knows” Nefertiti and other renowned 18th Dynasty alumni are buried.....but he’s now certain that the...
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Ignore this post: I was trying to delete one and I get a message saying I cannot delete on this forum, so I deleted the comment.
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10 November at 09:13
Lecture at Thebes hotel Wednesday 13 November 6 pm.
New aspects at Gebel el- Silsila West, by Dr. Moamen Saad Mohamed Director at MA, Member of...
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I surreptitiously noticed, for you tonight was different.
Ps: lecture ? they found loads of old stuff, I mean really old stuff... 8)
Now,,, if they had found a 'banksy!
Even after the second war Sadat continued to express open admiration for Hitler in a letter he sent to the Egyptian daily Al Mussawar on September 18, 1953:
As I said in another thread, this palace has appeared in the MoA price list of 1st November 2018. So I went there today.
Yes, the journey was longer than predicted. The Western Desert Road has not...
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Newcastle, thanks for the footnote I checked it. At least one of the external photographs is part of an often used visual library and has been around for years - the yellow photo. If so, and given...
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Lecture at Thebes hotel Wednesday 6 November 6 pm.
About the lecturer: Francisco Jose Martin Valentin, Doctor of the...
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That should be a good lecture. I have known Dr Francisco for quite a few years and he always has something interesting to talk about.
I cannot blame the hotel for the 25 le cover charge. Some people...
This is a chance for those who can't see many of the Luxor sites to get a taste of Egyptian history. It may and I hope it generates more interest and possibly more will fly out to the area to see for...
Came across this programme, by Joyce ..the curse caught my attention.
As the story of the curse was first published by the Mail or Express 'bylined by Arthur Weigall,
(ex head of Upper Egypt...
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Thanks for the podcast Who2.....fascinating. Not just for the oft repeated history of Carter/Carnarvon/Tut etc. but for the insight into how the curse stories originated and took off.
Egyptian archeologists uncover 20 ancient coffins in Luxor
Minister of Antiquities Khaled El-Enany and secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities Mostafa Waziri embarked on a tour to...
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The only new news was the total of coffins, 30, and then they opened a male and a female. The usual bun-fight as people jostled to get pictures (quite headache-making). The colours of the inner...
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Here we are again! First lecture of this new season on Wednesday, October 30 at 6 pm. With Wojciech Ejsmond, the director of the Gebelein Archaeological Project...
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Oh no! Not him :a21: I had forgotten the name. Stand by for a disaster then unless he has a new laptop.
No it is not the man who had all the problems last year that I was thinking of. I do not...
Something to look out for....Channel 4 Sunday 13th October .
The forgotten black pharaohs: They once ruled all of Egypt, but Africa's Khush Pharaohs' have been overlooked, says a new show.
Channel...
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I need to watch the program again alone. My wife has little patience with historical programs and wants to get her hands on the remote :lol:
I did have a thought about the water in the burial...
An interesting program about the discovery of a mummified black child in central Libya .....dated some 1000 years earlier than than the earliest known mummies in pharaonic Egypt.
Around 10,000 BC...
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Just watched it Newcastle, very interesting.Thanks for posting.
I can’t quite remember where I took this photo, somewhere on the road back to the Horus bridge as I recall. I often smile at his hand painted sign of 1 Euro per picture I bet he had lots of takers,...
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I only hope that long before I die, such a place can be set up to tell the true story of the hill people of the West Bank, that already seems even now lost to the modern world.
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