Insider Business: Still Standing

Egypt's Stone Carvers Keep Their Ancestors' Traditions Alive (2022x8)

Air date: May 07, 2022

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