{"id":522697,"date":"2010-04-10T02:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T06:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760875.post-5928229298805966429"},"modified":"2010-04-10T02:21:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-10T06:21:00","slug":"book-review-preserving-egypt%e2%80%99s-cultural-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/522697","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Preserving Egypt\u2019s Cultural Heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/babylonbeyond\/egypt\/index.html\">Los Angeles Times<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Second story on the page.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A new book, &#8220;Preserving Egypt\u2019s Cultural Heritage,&#8221; offers intriguing glimpses into dozens of projects. A collection of essays edited by Randi Danforth, the book, which includes before and after photographs, is a reminder of the passion and meticulousness that comes with conserving Egypt\u2019s glorious and often troubled past.<\/p>\n<p>The splendor is much diminished these days. The world\u2019s first empire, which the book describes as once spanning \u201cfrom the fourth cataract of the Nile in the south to the Euphrates River to the northeast,\u201d disappeared centuries ago. Today\u2019s Egypt is a poor, chaotic and dusty offspring, a nation still important but slipping in stature in a changing Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Preserving Egypt\u2019s Cultural Heritage&#8221; is the story of saving for new generations what flourished from the days of Pharaohs to Christian monasteries to the rise of Islam.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes<img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6760875-5928229298805966429?l=egyptology.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Times Second story on the page. A new book, &#8220;Preserving Egypt\u2019s Cultural Heritage,&#8221; offers intriguing glimpses into dozens of projects. A collection of essays edited by Randi Danforth, the book, which includes before and after photographs, is a reminder of the passion and meticulousness that comes with conserving Egypt\u2019s glorious and often troubled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}