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Forum,

I am doing a Nile River trip.  Has anyone did any fossil shopping in Cairo or Aswan.  From other posts it might be dicey.  I was just wondering if anything showed up in the markets?  Anyone have any personal experience to share?

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About a year ago, I visited Cairo and Aswan as well as Luxor but did not see any fossils for sale, although I wasn't looking for them either.

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You have to be very careful - as far as I know, the export of antiquities, fossils and (recent) corals is strictly forbidden. 

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Extensive Upper Pleistocene shell beds occur on the Red Sea in the Hurghada resort area.  From what I hear, collecting was very prolific in the 1990s until fossils were classified as antiquities and therefore prohibited along with recent shells.

 

Mike

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