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Egypt Is Razing Tombs and Cultural Centers to Modernize Cairo
The Robb Report ^ | August 29, 2023 | Daniel Cassidy for Artnews

Posted on 08/29/2023 8:55:36 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

Ancient tombs and cemeteries are being leveled to make way for new developments and roadways. The banks of the Nile are overly peppered with fast food restaurants, cafés, and military-owned gas stations. Trees and public gardens have been razed, according to the Times, often with little consideration to the environmental consequences.

Per local accounts, some Cairo residents fear that new highways planned to alleviate congestion, along with newly built high-rise apartment buildings, will destroy much of the city's history and displace those who have lived in Cairo for generations.

Darb 1718, a cultural center founded in 2007 by the artist Moataz Nasreldin and located in the eponymous neighborhood of Darb, is among the sites that may be destroyed.

District officials reportedly visited Dark 1718 and informed Nasreldin that the government would be widening the road behind his space to build an elevated highway. He would have to pack up and move, despite the lack of a written demolition order, or any paperwork at all for that matter, notwithstanding. So would the nearby, decades-old pottery workshops and neighboring housing units...

The modernization plan includes the new National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, the construction of which saw working-class neighborhoods near Darb demolished, and the $59 billion new capital, which will be reachable via high-speed trains and framed by a network of pristine roads.

(Excerpt) Read more at robbreport.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; History; Travel
KEYWORDS: brics; egypt; godsgravesglyphs; neo
Egypt is building a new capital city right in the middle of the desert. But why are they doing this and why would they choose this unfavorable landscape outside of Cairo in the sahara desert for the project?
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Why Egypt Is Building a New Capital City | 15:22 | neo | 1.5M subscribers | 5,540,793 views | December 13, 2021


1 posted on 08/29/2023 8:55:36 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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2 posted on 08/29/2023 8:55:53 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Agenda 21 and its ilk rule from the gov’t fascists.


3 posted on 08/29/2023 8:58:07 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

Egypt’s population has more than tripled since 1960, and urban planning is kind of an old idea that’s becoming new again.


4 posted on 08/29/2023 9:04:24 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

What will they do about water?


5 posted on 08/29/2023 9:07:27 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: SunkenCiv

They gave their lives for tourism.


6 posted on 08/29/2023 9:09:31 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SunkenCiv

Who needs pyramids when you can tear them down and put up a Starbucks on the site of each of them.


7 posted on 08/29/2023 9:11:36 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago )
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To: MinorityRepublican

That’s what the Nile is for. :^)


8 posted on 08/29/2023 9:52:28 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

If they burn and destroy all the antiquities what will they have left to place in that new museum ???

The Pyramids arent far away will they be next ???


9 posted on 08/29/2023 9:58:41 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: SunkenCiv

Paging Indiana Jones...


10 posted on 08/29/2023 9:59:39 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: SunkenCiv

Egypt has more relics than it knows what to do with. Pretty much putting a shovel in the ground, anywhere, will bring up some of them.


11 posted on 08/30/2023 6:05:08 AM PDT by BobL (Trump has all the right Enemies; DeSantis has all the wrong Friends)
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To: Tennessee Nana

It’s ironic.


12 posted on 08/30/2023 7:19:57 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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