Friday, October 21, 2005

Sixty Years of Beauty

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/765/sc5.htm
Looking at the important role of UNESCO and its iniatives in Egypt, past, present and future:
"With the UNESCO campaign for safeguarding the Nubia monuments, initiated some 45 years ago, Egypt marked the launch of one of the first large- scale cultural heritage salvation initiatives in the history of mankind . . . . The modern threat to the survival of the unique temples demonstrated that the conservation of the world's common heritage concerned all countries". See the full story, above.

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