European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 05, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse I in e a s t Enid by the last it lord real hut Tural Jyerald � of Theona o. In event Dos m haphazardly and often illegally a la those Acks he Swedin for the i the Irrin ller Dahi Ihor Pyrn Mills 17 Miles to the South some of the Contr action including a Section of the v new Highway is taking place inside the protected zone while other encroachments Are in the Buffer area where the cultural and heritage convention places strict limits on the height and types of buildings. Was horrified to see what saw Zulfiqar sail speaking of a tour he took in november. The thing is practically finished it s in total violation of the world. Heritage convention they signed it s in violation of. Egyptian _ " ". _ although the government has yet to make Public map of the new Road there already arc private Homes he Pru creation of the great pyramids going ii along the completed Vid they re expensive Homes. The people who knew where to Road was going through obviously were buying land. In no time it will become an Urban Zulfiqar said that in his tour of the area he found to numerous other encroachments some in the protected area and some in a Buffer zone where buildings Are theoretically subject to strict height restrictions 1 there Are 3,000 housing units being built right on the fringes of the archaeological zone he said. There Are six Story High buildings. There s a Palm Grove which is j _ being Cut Clown. There s a huge police housing Complex being built one Kilometre from Chc Ops Khufu the largest of the three pyramids. Zulfiqar said he has asked the director general of Enesco to Appeal personally to egyptian president Hosni Mubarak to remove the encroach Cius. Otherwise he said Enesco will Consic or placing the pyramids on the world heritage convention endangered list or possibly removing them altogether. Zahi Zawtis who directs at the pyramids Slio pm i arabian horse farm in the area and took .1 reporter on a driving tour recently. L want you to look at this and cry for the future four -.-. Hosny said he had campaigned against the project for four years to no Avail until one of his patients agreed to ,j3ring it to the attention of Enesco. Ministry of construction officials in . A ". Project contend that they gained approval for the new route from the egyptian antiquities organization in 1%-t. But or. Zahi harass the director of excavations at the Ciza plateau questioned the organization s authority o approve the project he has proposed that the $1-5 million in text Nues raised from tourists visiting the pyramids each year be -. Used to help finance an alternative route for the Highway when i found out what had been done it was if i had discovered that a member of my own family ,-_. Criminal harass said. Y this project will kill the pyramids. The Road will encourage people to build. Shopping centers and Gas stations As Well As other _ buildings. It will ruin Thea whole Zulfiqar said his group will suggest Tohe of Yeti to government that they alter the route of the ring Road so it runs at least 1.2 Miles South of Dah Shur. / Bui Rasm i Murad director of the executive " the construction project of greater Cairo which oversees construction of the Highway said building an alternative route would be a massive waste of with other officials involved in the project suggested that there would be Strong changing the project will Cost More than $300 million and will take three More years to Complete. The pyramids Are the Only one of the seven wonders of world left Zulfiqar said and. Now they Are in danger.". January 7995 stripes Magazine 1 3
