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Saqqara pyramid in Giza
Ministry threatens to end contract with company rehabbing pyramid
Al-Masry Al-Youm 05 Oct 2012
Minister of Antiquities Mohamed Ibrahim Ali threatened on Friday to terminate the contract of the company conducting...
Saqqara pyramid in Giza
Saqqara pyramid in danger as restorations halt over financial woes
Al-Masry Al-Youm 01 Oct 2012
Renovations at Egypt’s oldest pyramid in Saqqara have halted because the Antiquities Ministry has not paid the...
Donkeys stand in a sanctuary in Saqqara. Sanctuary owner Amina Abaza also runs the Society for the Protection of Animal Rights in Egypt.
In Saqqara, a safehaven for neglected donkeys
Lindsey Parietti 11 Mar 2012
Standing on a sandy farm with three eager donkeys nuzzling you for carrots, it’s hard to forget that less than a...
Nawaya teaches sustainable agriculture to local farmers and Cairenes
Steven Viney 19 Feb 2012
An Egyptian group on Friday hosted the first of a series of workshops intended to demonstrate to farmers and other...
All in a day's travel: Saqqara, Abu Sir, Dahshour, Memphis
Rana Nessim 07 Feb 2012
There are so many beautiful places on the outskirts of Cairo that we tend to forget about. Seeing that tourism,...
Endangered species: Egypt's Striped Hyena
Louise Sarant 24 Dec 2011
The hyena “dubba” is a striped hyena that is still present in some parts of Egypt, but the population is...
Saqqara pyramid in Giza
Egypt renovates its oldest pyramid
Mona Yassin 02 Nov 2011
Egypt is doing some housekeeping at its oldest pyramid - replacing stones and cleaning the Djoser Step Pyramid in an...
Saqqara pyramid in Giza
US Egyptologist uncovers 17 buried pyramids using new infrared technology
EE staff 25 May 2011
A new satellite survey in Egypt, led by American Egyptologist Sarah Parcak of the University of Alabama, Birmingham,...
Eucalyptus trees cut down in Saqqara due to ministry negligence
Steven Viney 14 May 2011
Throughout the historic area of Saqqara in Giza, healthy young eucalyptus trees are being cut down and trucked away to...
A handout picture released by Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) on May 30, 2010 shows a vast tomb belonging to a pharaonic army commander who also oversaw the kingdom's treasury which has been unearthed in the Saqarra necropolis south of Cairo, with one of the ladnmark stepped pyramids of Saqqara in the background. Antiquities chief Zahi Hawass told AFP that the 70 metre (yard) long tomb of Betah Mes, who was also a royal scribe and oversaw the country's granaries, dated back to 19th Dynasty, which ruled Egypt between 1320 and 1200 BC.
2 new Pharaonic tombs unearthed in Saqqara
DPA 07 Jul 2010
Two Pharaonic tombs have been found in the region of Saqqara, south of Giza, by a Egyptian archaeological team working...