Weekly Websites

Deutsches Archäogisches Institut, Cairo
http://www.dainst.org/index.php?id=265&sessionLanguage=en (English)
http://www.dainst.org/index.php?id=265&sessionLanguage=de (German)

Founded in 1907, the Deutsche Institut für ägyptische Altertumskunde became affiliated with the Deutsches Archäogisches Institut in 1929. The area of research of the department encompasses more than 8,000 years of history ranging from the oldest prehistoric pharaonic culture to the beginning of the Islamic Middle Ages. This page has various pieces of useful information, including details of their current archaeological projects in Egypt.

Looting Matters
http://www.lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
A blog by David Gill, who has been featured in an interview for Archaeology Magazine recently. He describes the blog as a "discussion of the archaeological ethics surrounding the ethics of antiquties". His profile is as follows:

David Gill is a member of the Department of Classics, Ancient History and Egyptology at Swansea University, Wales. He was a Rome Scholar at the British School at Rome and a Sir James Knott Fellow at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He was subsequently part of the Department of Antiquities at the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge.

Saving Antiquities For Everyone
http://www.savingantiquities.org/

SAFE/Saving Antiquities for Everyone is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving cultural heritage worldwide. Our mission is to raise public awareness about the irreversible damage that results from looting, smuggling and trading illicit antiquities. We promote respect for the laws and treaties that enable nations to protect their cultural property and preserve humanity’s most precious non-renewable resource: the intact evidence of our undiscovered past.

By creating educational programs and media campaigns in partnership with academia and the communications, legal and law enforcement communities, SAFE encourages ethical behavior to stop the trade in illicit antiquities from destroying the history that belongs to us all.

Egypt Sites Blog - Reflection in the Nile
http://egyptsites.wordpress.com/

Su Bayfield, whose Egypt Sites website has been an invaluable resource for many years, has started up a blog describing her travels in Egypt. As usual with Su's work, her posts are well written, informative and bring Egypt to life in a very pragmatic way. Her main hobby, apart from visiting Egypt, is photography, so her sites are always supported by great images. Su introduces her site as follows:

In 1995 I started a journal of each trip. The first visit of course made the biggest impression on me, but I kept writing each time I went there and this is what this blog is about. It’s a record of my visits, how the country has changed over the years and a bit of history about the sites thrown in. There will also be links to my photographs which don’t appear on my other website, to give a taste of the country rather than just the Egyptian Monuments.