Les Eglises égyptiennes ont claqué la porte suivies par plus de 30 membres issus de formations diverses. Son avenir semble plus que jamais compromis, malgré les assurances des islamistes à vouloir continuer le travail.
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Egyptian archeologist Monica Hanna, 29, talks about the 4500 year-old necropolis of Dahshour which is under threat from tomb-robbers and villagers who are expanding a local cemetery. The outline almost reaches one of Egypt's first pyramids. Delete the scoop?
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young boy runs along a small hill in the desert near the Black Pyramid of Amenemhat III in Dahshour, Egypt. The more than 4,500-year-old necropolis of Dahshour is under threat from criminals and villagers who are expanding a local cemetery — the outline of which almost reaches to one of Egypt’s first pyramids and one of its oldest mortuary temples. The illegal grave-robbing, looting and encroachment of the area endangers the largely unexplored Dahshour complex — an area that symbolizes the evolutionary path of the ancient pharaohs’ pyramid building. “We are losing Egyptian history here, the history for the whole world,” says Egyptian archaeologist Monica Hanna, 29, as she walked around peering into the numerous, “massive looting pits.'
From a distance, it looks as though an animal has burrowed around the 4,000-year-old Black Pyramid of Amenemhat III.
But thieves dug these holes. And Egyptian archaeologist Monica Hanna calls that “a catastrophe.”
“See the ancient mud bricks?” says Hanna, 29, peering into a pit. “It is very well structured.”
She walks to another, followed by three pyramid custodians, and points into the 25-foot hole with a tunnel to one side. Here, she says, looters exposed what might be a burial shaft.
One custodian, Said Hussein, 32, tells her that as many as 30 armed men come nightly to dig for antiquities. They beat two custodians, broke an arm of one and “attacked the armed guards on the gate.”
“Do they find anything?” she asks. “They only find pottery, stuff like that,” he replies. “A wooden coffin, that's what they take.”
These “massive looting pits,” Hanna says, have made “Swiss cheese” of a 2-mile-long field of five pyramids listed as a United Nations World Heritage Site.(...)
Post-revolution lawlessness The brazen looting and the encroaching cemetery reflect Egypt's lawlessness and political unrest since its 2011 revolution.
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Des villageois armés se sont approprié des terrains dépendants du site archéologique de Saqqara. Ils bloquent les accès à la nécropole et ont lancé des travaux de construction.
Egypte actus's insight:
« Sauvez nos antiquités ! Dahchour est en danger ! », scandent les archéologues et les employés du site. L’histoire a commencé, il y a deux semaines, quand plus de 1 500 villageois des régions d’Al-Maraziq, de Mazghouna et de Dahchour ont attaqué les terrains de la nécropole de Dahchour, notamment celui du temple de la Vallée, situés au pied de la pyramide rouge de Snéfrou. Les villageois ont commencé à se répartir les terrains, à creuser des fondations et à construire des cimetières. Armés de fusils, ils empêchaient tout accès au site. Ils sont même allés jusqu’à menacer de détruire la pyramide de Snéfrou. Ces violations inquiètent fortement les responsables du ministère d’Etat pour les Antiquités. Ils veulent mettre fin au plus vite à ces occupations illégales qui font courir un risque au patrimoine. « Le site est en danger. Ces gens qui nous menacent sont tous armés et refusent le moindre compromis », avance, impuissant, le directeur du site de Dahchour, Ossama Al-Chimi. Kamal Wahid, directeur de la nécropole de Saqqara dont dépend le site de Dahchour, affirme que les incidents remontent au début de l’année, quand « deux citoyens ont demandé une autorisation pour agrandir leurs cimetières situés à proximité du temple de la Vallée. On leur a demandé d’obtenir un permis officiel du gouvernorat de Guiza et un autre du ministère des Antiquités. Ils étaient d’accord et ont commencé à faire les procédures demandées. Mais, en l’absence d’autorisation, ils se sont approprié ces terrains ». (...) Le ministre Mohamad Ibrahim blâme, quant à lui, l’ignorance des villageois et leur manque de conscience patrimoniale. « En plus du manque de volonté des gens à maintenir et préserver les régions archéologiques, le manque de sécurité est venu aggraver l’affaire et encourager les habitants à construire sur le site », ajoute-t-il. Il met en avant le fait que le ministère n’est pas apte à faire face à ces agressions répétées. Seule solution plausible : accorder au ministère des moyens financiers supplémentaires. Selon lui, il en va de la sécurité de l’ensemble des sites archéologiques en Egypte. Plus : http://hebdo.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/959/32/97/1534/Dahchour-Conflit-au-pied-des-pyramides.aspx Delete the scoop?
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In Egypt, armed residents of the town of Ezbet Dahshur invaded the archaeological site adjacent to the Black Pyramid of King Amenemhat III and looted its ancient cemetery. Unarmed guards at the site were unable to repel the invaders. Mohamed Ibrahim, Minister of State for Antiquities, says that the Tourism and Antiquities Police do not have the manpower to protect all of the country’s heritage sites. “We will study a new mechanism to compel people not to encroach upon the archaeological area,” he said. ("Archaeology") Delete the scoop?
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Egypte actus's insight:
Why is it an international SOS !? Because our ruling government , our president,ruling party and their allies from Islamists care less about Ancient Egyptian history. Why is it an international SOS ?? Because our government and president are still sensitive to Western Pressure more than local pressure. There is a danger surrounding the Dahshur archaeological area and the bent Pyramid according to renowned journalist Yasser El Zayat. Mr. El Zayat reported that armed locals “from land traders and robbers ” stormed the archaeological site and began to distribute the land in the site for illegal construction. El Zayat who works in Al Masry AL Youm also reported that construction has began and is reaching to the bent pyramid by those armed thugs who are threatening archeological inspectors. Sadly enough there is a military point check few kilometers away from the site and is doing nothing against this attack !! They claim that they are waiting orders from the Central Zone commandership of Grand Cairo !! The police also refused to interfered. Dahshur is world heritage area according to UNESCO so please call the UNESCO and tell them to do something for God sake. Already the archeological areas near the pyramids are facing hell on earth from robbers and land thieves with no police or army or security !! Unfortunately we do not have enough photos or videos showing the violations because photographers can not go there without security protection as we are speaking about land robbers who are armed and aggressive. Already a dear friend and reporter was working on a similar story in Old Cairo and faced similar challenge. Here is a video shot by Mrs. Wahiba Saleh, the head of inspectors in the area. (...) Unfortunately the Islamists including the current generations of Muslim brotherhood care less about ancient Egyptian history. They despise the ancient Egyptian history as ancient Egyptians were infidels in prophet Moses’ story !! “Despite the Mother of All Arabs is ancient Egyptians and Joseph ruled Egypt not to mention that there is a belief among unorthodox Egyptologists like late Siyad Kareem that Akhanton was a prophet of God.” Unfortunately many Islamists in Egypt believe now that our ancient history starts with the entry of Islam to Egypt ignoring even some important parts of Islamic Egyptian history like the Fatimid State !! If you are interested to know more please contact Mr.Yasser El Zayat
(Egyptian Chronicles)
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François Tonic's comment,
January 12, 9:09 AM
même problème à Saqqarah Sud dès janvier / février 2011. depuis la situation n'a pas évolué. les constructions restent. on attend maintenant la réaction sur le terrain du ministère des antiquités et surtout des autorités locales et du gouvernement mais y aurait-il une volonté politique d'agir ? le doute est permis.
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UNWTO (Organisation Mondiale du Tourisme OMT) is currently implementing the tourism component of the project “Mobilization of the Dahshour World Heritage Site for Community Development”. The project, which was launched in April 2009 and will conclude in March 2013, is financed through the contribution made by the Government of Spain to establish the Millennium Development Goals Fund (MDG-F). Five UN Agencies (UNESCO, UNDP, UNIDO, ILO and UNWTO) are collaborating with national institutions (Ministry of Tourism, Supreme Council of Antiquities, Social Fund for Development, Industrial Modernization Centre and Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency) to support the reduction of human development disparities, with special reference to addressing the gender gap and achieving environmental sustainability. The project strategy works in two dimensions; first to reduce poverty of the local communities in Dahshour, and second to enhance the national institutional capacities so as to better protect and manage the archaeological and natural resources of the area. Dahshour is an agricultural community comprising five traditional villages to the South ofCairo which is home to the incredible Black, Bent and Red Pyramids (Sneferu Pyramids). Moreover, Birket Dahshour, a seasonal wetland, is situated directly to the southeast of the Dahshour Pyramids and attracts wintering birds. This unique mix of natural and cultural resources provides great potential for Dahshour to become a self-contained, high quality tourism, holiday and resort destination easily reachable from Cairo. Therefore, tourism development is central to all the main project activities, since it can play a fundamental role in creating sustainable livelihoods for the local communities, and provide the framework for the sustainable use and management of cultural and natural resources, as well as fostering the practice of local lifestyles.
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Egyptian authorities are moving to address unauthorised construction, while officials said further measures are needed to ensure the country's antiquities are protected.
Egypte actus's insight:
These days, a different kind of burial ground is being constructed on the archaeological site, and Egyptian authorities are concerned. In January, the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities reported that area residents had forcibly encroached on archaeological land in the Dahshur area in order to build tombs. Antiquities Minister Mohammed Ibrahim said government authorities will soon begin to execute special removal orders against these encroachments. The government is in the process of demarcating another area of Dahshur, far from the archaeological site, to be used as a cemetery for the people of the area, he said. "Residents seized land by force to build tombs on, threatening the special guard with weapons," said Nasser Ramadan, director general of the Dahshur archaeological site. The antiquities are in serious danger of being destroyed or looted, he told Al-Shorfa. "In recent times, many antiquities thieves carried out [illegal] digs in search of pharaonic antiquities to sell on the black market," he said. Ramadan said the problem stems from the lack of security that followed the January 25th Revolution, and that the solution lies in the return of security authorities in force to the area. (...)Maher Mahmoud, 30, told Al-Shorfa local residents have been asking the government to allocate land for a cemetery in Dahshur for years, but it has yet to respond. After the revolution, some families began to build tombs on land adjacent to the site, he said. "All we want is [for the government] to allocate a large tract of land for us to build tombs on," he said, adding, "This is a matter of great importance to us." Hassan Mohammed, 48, who lives in a farm community adjacent to the site, said residents submitted a request to Giza province four years ago asking that land be allocated for tomb building, but the demand has not yet been answered. "In October of last year, some began to build foundations for tombs and clashed with the guards at the archaeological sites," he said. "However, the necessary measures have yet to be taken, whether establishing security at the site or opening a dialogue with the area residents."
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When King Senefru, the founder of the Fourth Dynasty, decided that he would build the first ever complete pyramid in the world to be his resting place for eternity, he chose the remote area of Dahshour as the perfect location.
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Antiquities Minister Mohamed Ibrahim has said that land encroachers near the Dahshur archaeological area will be removed immediately by the National Security Agency after official permission is granted.
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The ministry had previously filed complaints over the land grabs with prosecutors, who subsequently ordered encroachers removed, the minister told MENA. The complaints came after ministry workers reported that a number of armed Dahshur residents seized land in the area, which hosts five ancient pyramids, in order to build a cemetery. Ibrahim added that the ministry will grant permission for residents to build cemeteries away from the archaeological sites. “The ministry has been suffering from [citizens’] lack of archaeological awareness,” Ibrahim said, adding that the security void after the January 2011 uprising encouraged encroachments. “The ministry does not have sufficient financial resources to place guards at monument areas,” Ibrahim added, saying that the ministry was instead working on a plan to encourage people nationwide not to encroach on antiquities sites. Dahshur, south of Saqqara, Giza, hosts five pyramids belonging to King Snefru and other three Pharaohs. It also includes cemeteries from the Old and the Middle Pharaonic Kingdoms. Edited translation from MENA (Egypt independent) Delete the scoop?
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