Discovering important antiquities in Sinai

Gaballah A. Gaballah, the secretary general of the supreme council for antiquities said that LE 300 million have been allocated for excavation in Sinai peninsula and for developing monument facilities there, so as to add the area to the Egyptian tourism map.

There is already a plan to turn Sinai into an open museum. The plan includes upgrading work in the national north Sinai museum, restoration of the pottery museum in Qantara East.

The project also comprises the final envisage of restoring the ruins of Pharma town , the historical location famous for its churches.

There are several other tourist landmarks in Sinai. Under the sands, there are hidden military castles, as the north of Sinai is the sole place in Egypt which still preserves many castles of various eras, starting from the Pharaonic up to the Islamic ages.

Thus, such castles are well to be a miscellaneous museum of that long history. Tourists have, then, to visit very important sites other than the Pyramids and the Sphinx.

They could witness more than 12 castles and forts of different ages resembled in a historical panorama.

Events over long past years left in north Sinai many historical roads, cities and castles, the most prominent of which is the northern war and trade road well known as Horus road, that still has its significant importance to-date.