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"Egypt's most important sites are experiencing major trouble, a new report suggests. All the three reviewed Egyptian World Heritage sites were in danger of losing the values that originally brought them into the prestigious Unesco list, and they were worst rated in the Middle East and North Africa region. The threatened sites include the Pyramids of Giza, the Islamic district of Cairo and the historic cities of Thebes and Luxor.

The world-famous pyramids are worst off, having degenerated into a tourist trap of vendors and its surroundings being flooded by Cairo's encroaching suburbs. Travellers are advised to see the worst-off sites on the list before it is too late.

The fantastic age-old pyramids - which were inscribed into the Unesco list already in its first decade, in 1979 - have yet to be put on Unesco's official "World Heritage in Danger List". But the report's conclusion may warn Egyptian authorities that an over-exploitation of the tourism potential and a lack of urban planning may soon put the pyramids on that list. "

http://www.afrol.com/articles/23276

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