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14-807: The Theban Desert Road Survey is an archaeological research project operated in conjunction with the Egyptian Ministry of Culture 's Supreme Council for Antiquities that is being conducted in the Western Desert in Egypt that focuses on the ancient connections between Thebes and such settlements as the Kharga Oasis . The project uses remote sensing to identify roads and caravan trails that were used in antiquity to identify possible sites of previously unknown communities. Established in 1991 by Egyptologists Deborah Darnell and her then-husband John Coleman Darnell ,

28-680: The Mubarak regime it became the Ministry of State for Culture in 1982, with the information portfolio spun off into a separate ministry yet again. The Ministry often sends delegations to participate in events. In 2015, the Ministry participated in events in Doha, Qatar . In November, 2018 the Ministry participated in the second annual Music Festival in Corsica. In January 2001, the Egyptian Ministry of Culture

42-562: The Proto-Sinaitic alphabet , some of the earliest known examples of phonetic alphabetic writing, in contrast to the pictographs used in Egyptian hieroglyphs . In 2010, Zahi Hawass announced that the team had found a 218 acres (88 ha) site of a major residential and military center at Kharga Oasis at the end of the Girga Road dating back 3,500 years, the earliest known urban development in

56-540: The Egyptian desert. The initial finds were made around the year 2000 providing evidence of a Persian outpost near a temple dating to over 2,500 years old, which led the Darnells to conclude that the site must be one of some importance. Other finds at the site showed pottery that indicated that there had been trade over a wide area and that there had been intensive baking operations and "large-scale ceramic production", all signs that

70-587: The north and the Nubian people of Kerma to the south. Ministry of Culture (Egypt) After Egypt's independence from Britain during the July 1952 Revolution, the new regime established the Ministry of National Guidance in November of that year, giving it wide responsibilities over broadcasting, journalism, press attaches and film censoring, as well as managing tourism, museums, theatre productions, and popular culture. It

84-555: The period from 1650 BCE to 1550 BCE, a thousand years before any other known settlement in the area of the Kharga Oasis. The site "completely explains the rise and importance of Thebes", as that city's control over the oasis communities to its west at Kharga and Dakhla Oasis allowed it to retain control of the area and to avoid the incursions of the Hyksos who controlled the Nile Delta to

98-480: The post. Abu Ghazi's term ended on 14 May 1971 when Ismail Ghanem was named the minister of culture. Then Abu Ghazi served as the head of an art institution in Egypt, namely Société des amis de l’art, from 1972 to 1983. His son, Emad Abu Ghazi , also served as the minister of culture in the cabinet led by Prime Minister Essam Sharaf in 2011. Abu Ghazi died in 1983. Abu Ghazi published various books one of which

112-475: The publications Rose Al Yusuf and Al Akhbar . Then he worked for Al Hilal and for Al Majalla . The editor of the latter was Yahya Haqqi in the 1960s. In addition to such journalist activities Abu Ghazi was one of the members of the Supreme Council for Arts, Literature, and Social Science in the 1960s. On 18 November 1970 Abu Ghazi was appointed minister of culture replacing Tharwat Okasha in

126-451: The site had been a major settlement in antiquity. At the site named Umm Mawagir (أم مواجير,"mother of bread molds " in Arabic ), the Darnells discovered a substantial cache of bread molds, grinding stones and other baking implements, with a total of 1,000 lb of objects found, more than enough material to be "baking enough bread to feed an army" at a site with a population in the thousands during

140-624: The survey project grew substantially when it gained the support of Yale University in 1998. The Theban Desert Road Survey has discovered sites from Predynastic Egypt , including substantial caches of pottery and other artifacts. The project was begun by Deborah Darnell and John Coleman Darnell , who started searching along caravan trails in the Western Desert west of Luxor in the early 1990s under an approach they described as desert road archaeology. Among their discoveries are inscriptions found at Wadi el-Hol , dating back 3,800 years, which are in

154-570: Was a Ministry of Culture, with Tharwat Okasha , and a separate Ministry for National Guidance with Mohamed Fayek . Within a month the minister of culture was replaced with Badraldin Abughazi , and the Ministry of National Guidance renamed as the Ministry of Information with the same minister. After a further few months in May 1971 Ismail Ghamem replaced Abughazi. In 1979 it was the Ministry of Culture and Information (during Mansour Hassan 's tenure). Under

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168-400: Was an Egyptian art critic and writer who served as the minister of culture between 1970 and 1971. Abu Ghazi was born in 1920. He was a nephew of the leading Egyptian sculptor Mahmoud Mokhtar . Abu Ghazi was an art critic by profession and worked at various publications. He started his career at Al Fossoul which was published by Mohamed Zaki Abdel Kader. In the early 1950s he joined

182-537: Was considered based on the French model, but also shaped by the experiments of various Eastern Bloc countries with centralized production and dissemination of culture. The ministry was renamed by President Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1958 as the Ministry of Culture and National Guidance. During president Anwar Sadat 's regime, the ministry was renamed and restructured a number of times. In the first cabinet in October 1970 there

196-514: Was criticized for withdrawing three novels of homoerotic poetry by the well-known 8th Century classical Arabic poet Abu Nuwas from circulation. Source: This article about government in Egypt is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a culture ministry is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Badr Al Din Abu Ghazi Badr Al Din Abu Ghazi (1920–1983)

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