It’s a photographic exhibition with a difference, for as you walk through the “Saqara Under Sand” or “Whispers of the Dead” you become immersed in the sands, tombs and findings of that ancient site, so much so that you go down history lane while sharing the sweat and toil of archaeologists and workers, who, for 16-years have kept digging and excavating to resolve the mysteries of an area that shelters three millennia of history.

In cooperation with the Cultural Development Fund, the Alexandria Library, the Ars Latina Society and the Louvre Museum’s Egyptian Antiquities Department, “Saqara Under Sand” that was staged in Jan. 2007 at the Alexandria Library and last month at the French Cultural Centre, Cairo, is currently on at Prince Taz Palace [Cairo].

However, due to the significance of the exhibition that showcases the fruit of 16-years’ excavations conducted by the Louvre’s French archaeological team, “Saqara Under Sand” is scheduled to tour the US as well as many Arab countries and South America before it will return to centre stage at the Louvre Museum, Paris...

A pictorial dream: ‘Saqara Under Sand’ will tour the world, Ahmed Maged, Daily Star, Egypt, May 08, 2007.

Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni said the Spanish government had granted Egypt 15 million euros to develop the Pyramids Plateau area. The minister set up an ad-hoc committee under Zahi Hawass, the Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities to follow up the implementation of the second phase of the project.

The first phase is expected to complete in mid-June.

The first phase includes the erection of a 20-metre high concrete wall around the plateau to stop the creep of squatter buildings.

Secretary-General of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities Dr. Zahi Hawass said the first phase further includes an electronic security system to provide the utmost protection for the ancient area.

Spain allocates 15 million euros to develop pyramids plateau area, Egypt State Information Service, Egypt, May 09, 2007.

Scientists examining documents dating back 3,500 years say they have found proof that the origins of modern medicine lie in ancient Egypt and not with Hippocrates and the Greeks.

The research team from the KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology at The University of Manchester discovered the evidence in medical papyri written in 1,500BC – 1,000 years before Hippocrates was born.

"Classical scholars have always considered the ancient Greeks, particularly Hippocrates, as being the fathers of medicine but our findings suggest that the ancient Egyptians were practising a credible form of pharmacy and medicine much earlier," said Dr Jackie Campbell.

Fellow researcher Dr Ryan Metcalfe is now developing genetic techniques to investigate the medicinal plants of ancient Egypt. He has designed his research to determine which modern species the ancient botanical samples are most related to...

Egyptians, not Greeks were true fathers of medicine, Aeron Haworth, University of Manchester via EurekAlert, USA, May 09, 2007.

Previously:

Ancient Egypt Meds: Prayer, Laxatives, March 01, 2007.

Mummies unravel the Pharaohs' secrets, February 02, 2007.

Discovering the pharmacy of the pharaohs, January 30, 2007.

Curse of mummy to be uncovered by medical check-up, March 30, 2005.