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Editorial: At a standstill in Luxor
The Egyptian Gazette Online
Sunday, August 14, 2011 01:59:47 PM

CAIRO – It is no secret that the archeological sector has been one of the major sectors adversely affected by repercussions of the January revolution. While some archeological sites have been plundered, because of the low security profile security and the general state of chaos prevailing for several months, work has been suspended on other sites for financial reasons.

   

   Excavations on the Avenue of Sphinxes, a key element of the large project to convert Luxor into an open museum, intended to unearth the route that linked the Luxor and Karnak Temple in Pharaonic times, have come to a halt.
   While visiting the town in May to give impetus to the project, incumbent Prime Minister Essam Sharaf promised that the excavations would be resumed, so that the reclaimed Avenue of the Sphinxes would be inaugurated in October at the start of tourism’s high season. Despite his promise, the situation is at a standstill.
   Around 80 per cent of the excavation and restoration activities have already been executed costing some LE80 million, but the cost of the rest of the project that includes the removal of some buildings that are impeding excavations is estimated at LE20 million.
   Although many people in Luxor, whose homes and businesses were adversely affected by unearthing the Avenue of the Sphinxes, opposed this component of the open museum, both opponents and supporters are dismayed at the empty site. It is being protected by a handful of guards, although it had been a beehive of workers and excavators. Local people complain that the unfinished site is blocking traffic in a vital part of the town.
   The re-opening of the avenue would inspire cultural events, which could revive the original festive atmosphere associated with the ancient festival of Opet, where the cult statue of Amun was carried along the avenue.  The project could help promote tourism in the archeologically rich town that has declined in the wake of the January revolution.


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