Egypt’s Stone Carvers Keep Their Ancestors’ Traditions Alive | Still Standing

For over sixty years, Sayed Al-Mataany has been using thousand-year-old, Ancient Egyptian methods to carve hieroglyphs into vases and sculptures — but major blows to Egypt’s tourism industry have caused a steady decline in the number of tourists coming to Luxor to buy his ornaments. We went to Luxor in Egypt to see how his business is still standing.

Sayed does not have a website. He sells his work locally in Luxor.

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Egypt’s Stone Carvers Keep Their Ancestors’ Traditions Alive | Still Standing