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Sunday, 24 April 2016

Make Egyptology romantic again to attract tourists, Werr suggests

Romanticize Egyptology again to attract tourists, Patrick Werr suggests in The National. “The obvious game-changer could be the mysterious room thought to lie behind King Tut’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings. If it turns out to be the burial chamber of Queen Nefertiti, the world would be electrified,” he says, but there are other potential sites, including the temple of Amenhotep III as well as a canal connecting his palace on the West Bank at Luxor. Egyptologist Hourig Sourouzian “hopes to open the site to the public as an open-air museum within a few years, complete with pathways, stations with explanatory panels and a detailed model of the temple. Too many of the temple’s stones have been pilfered over the last three millennia for it to completely regain its former glory, but enough remains to make a spectacular tourist site — and to keep the romantic side of Egypt in the news.”

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