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Egypt: reopening of the Imhotep Museum

Closed for more than a year for works, the Imhotep Museum has just reopened its doors to the public. Located in the ancient necropolis of Saqqarah, south of Cairo, the museum was named in honour of the ancient Egyptian architect Imhotep.

Egypt unveils restored Imhotep Museum in Saqqara Necropolis

Egypt unveils restored Imhotep Museum in Saqqara Necropolis
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The pyramids were never this hard: how Land of the Pharaohs made Joan Collins and broke Howard Hawks

Joan Collins in Land of the Pharaohs Credit: Getty In April 1954, a scorching day of slave labour was afoot, in a stone quarry near the unfinished Egyptian pyramid of Zawyet El Aryan, outside Giza. Many thousands of extras were needed to achieve one of the grandest location shots in Howard Hawks’s Land of the Pharaohs, which had just started production in an extreme state of unreadiness.  An uncharacteristically nervous Hawks hoped to put his best foot forward by getting at least one huge money shot in the can. To court favour, he sent the rushes post-haste to Jack Warner at Burbank, to show where the $1.75m budget – which would balloon to an ultimately ruinous $3.15m – was going.

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