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Huge Impact Crater Found in Egypt
BBC News report that a giant meteorite crater (named "Kebira" -- which means "large" in Arabic -- and also relates to the crater's physical location on the northern tip of the Gilf Kebir region in southwest Egypt) formed from an imp
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4779482.stm
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Huge Crater Found in Egypt
Report on the discovery, by Boston University researchers Farouk El-Baz and Eman Ghoneim, of crater “Kebira,” more than twice as big as the next largest Saharan crater known; by Robert Roy Britt at Space.com.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060303_big_crater.html
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Largest Crater in the Great Sahara Discovered by Boston University Scientists
Boston University news release, dated March 3, 2006, on how researchers from the university's Center for Remote Sensing located Crater Kebira using detailed satellite data; includes information on the researchers, Dr. Farouk El-Baz and Dr. Eman Ghoneim,
http://www.bu.edu/phpbin/news/releases/display.php?id=1073
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Construction Begins on UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology
Egyptologists and University of California, Los Angeles technology centers have begun compiling a new online history of Egypt from 3500 BC to AD 400, to include 4,000 entries of original content and be available in English, German, French, and Arabic; by
http://www.international.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=42386
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The Sudanese Travels of Theodoro Krump, 1700-1702
A summary of this traveller's journey through Egypt and on to Sudan; by Jay Spaulding, at Kean University.
http://www.kean.edu/~jspauldi/krump2home.html
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Climate Threatens Egypt's Treasures
Examines the problem of higher humidity in the Nile River Valley, and its effects on ancient objects and buildings; by Malcolm Billings, BBC News.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/1966886.stm
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Griffith Institute
This renowned research institute, which has "the largest specialized Egyptological archive in the world," includes the records of Howard Carter's excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun, a major database of 19th-century studio photographs of Egyp
http://www.ashmolean.org/Griffith.html
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Railways In the Nile Valley (Until 1935)
This history of Egypt's railway system begins with an overview of the country's place in the region's travel and trade, recounts establishment of the Alexandria-Cairo line (the first railway on the African continent) in 1851-56, and then its expansion to
http://mikes.railhistory.railfan.net/r050.html
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Oxyrhynchus: A City and its Texts
Online version of the exhibition of the same name, celebrating 100 years of publication of The Oxyrhynchus Papyri; contains information and images on the Site, Excavations and Finds, Daily Life, A Millennium of Documents, Scribes and Scholars, and other
http://www.papyrology.ox.ac.uk/POxy/VExhibition/exhib_welcome.html
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Digital Egypt for Universities
This "learning and teaching resource for higher education" contains information on all aspects of Egyptian history, society, and culture from 4000 BC to the present; from University College London.
http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/
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