Archaeology and politics in Egypt on the way to St. Catherine’s Monastery on Mount Sinai – Thomas Paul Schirrmacher

Archaeology and politics in Egypt on the way to St. Catherine’s Monastery on Mount Sinai

Friday October 17th, 2025 / Travel Photo Galleries

: The director of the excavations in Tanis San el Hagar shows Thomas Schirrmacher around.

: Director of the Tell Basta Museum

: The director of the Egyptian Bible Society with his wife, Prof. Hoffmeier and Mr and Mrs Schick

: The Grand Mufti

: Ministry of Antiquities

: Professor Hoffmeier shows me one of his own excavacations in the Suez National Museum

: Ramses I and Thomas Schirrmacher – Thanks for the photo with special permission and to the museum photographer.

: Under police protection

: Under police protection