Nothing to do with tourism really.  Details of a number of finds in the Suez area.

Minister of Culture, Farouk Hossni, decided to form a panel of Egyptian archeologists to examine new 22 archeological sites, recently discovered in the Suez governorate...

Director General of the Suez area of monuments, Dr. Mohamed Salem, expounded that the Suez governorate, after those discoveries, contained 29 archeological sites dating back to the Pharonic, Greek, Roman and Nuptic ages distributed on 4 sites.

[More], State Information Service, Egypt, December 29, 2004.

More on the granaries found in the Fayum.

California University and the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) joint expedition announced yesterday that eight silos dating back to the pre-dynasty era have been unearthed in northern Fayum.

SCA Chairman, Zahi Hawass said the find is one of the most interesting discoveries as "it enriches our knowledge of the agricultural methods and techniques adopted by the Ancient Egyptians in the pre-history era."

[More], State Information Service, Egypt, December 29, 2004.

Prime Minister Dr. Ahmed Nazif, accompanied by the Minister of Culture, late on Sunday inaugurated five newly restored religious sites on the centuries-old el-Muzzeddin Allah Street.

The sites include Ashraf Barsbey School; Sheikh Ali el- Muttahar Mosque and Sabil; the Dome and School of el-Nasser Qalaoun; Barquk Madrasa (School and Khanka), and el-Silhedar Mosque.

[More], State Information Service, Egypt, December 28, 2004.

Prime Minister Dr.Ahmed Nazif opens this evening five archaeological projects that have been renovated in El-Muez Street in ancient Cairo the projects include Mosque, Fountain and Kuttab (lowest elementary school in the past) of Suliman Agha El- Slehdar, Sultan Barquq School, El-Nasser Mohamed Bin Qalawoon, Mosque, Fountain Ankuteb of Ali El- Metlahr and Mosque and School of Al-Ashraf Bersai.

[More], State Information Service, Egypt, December 26, 2004.

Archaeologists in Egypt have found eight Stone Age grain stores at an oasis southwest of Cairo that help show the shift from hunting to agricultural societies, the Ministry of Culture reported.

The ministry said the discovery was made by a team from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in an area north of Fayoum 60 miles southwest of Cairo, where 67 grain stores were found in 1926.

"The well-preserved nature of these stores helped experts to understand the transformation of societies, from depending on hunting to a stable agricultural society," government antiquities chief Zahi Hawass said in the statement.

The statement did not say when the discovery was made.

[More], Reuters, UK, December 28, 2004.

cf. Archaeologists Find Egyptian Stone Age Stores, Reuters via Yahoo, December 28, 2004.

cf. Stone Age granaries found in Egypt, Reuters via MSNBC, December 29, 2004.

cf. Archaeologists find Egyptian Stone Age stores, Reuters via CNN, December 28, 2004.