King Tut’s ET jewelry, News from the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Ramesses II in the Quran, Seti I, more mummy forensics, museum coming attractions…
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Tags: Arkansas Art Center, Church of St. Mary, Cincinnati Museum Center, Coptic Cairo, Forensic Mummy Studies, Hanging Church, Islamic Egypt, Islamic History, Khufu's Pyramid, Louvre, Mummies, Qurna Temple, Ramesses II, Seti I, Supreme Council of Antiquities, The British Museum, The Great Pyramid, Tutankhamun
My interview with Zahi Hawass has been posted to Heritage Key!
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Tags: Archaeology, Cairo Museum, Egyptian Tombs, Egyptian Tourism, Forensic Mummy Studies, Giza Plateau, Giza Pyramids, Grand Egyptian Museum, Horemheb, Indianapolis, Islamic Egypt, Ka-Nefer-Nefer, Khufu's Pyramid, Memphis Necropolis, Mummies, National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, Nefertiti, Osiris Shaft, Seti I, Suzanne Mubarak Children's Museum, Valley of the Kings, Zahi Hawass
Originally commissioned by President Anwar Sadat to memorialize the soldiers who died in the October 1973 War, the President himself would die within sight of the memorial, which would become his final resting place.
This modern-day pyramid symbolizes the eternal spirit of the Egyptian people and their long, complex history.
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Tags: Anwar Sadat, Cairo, Egyptian Tombs, Islamic Egypt, Modern Egypt, October 1973 War, Sami Rafi, Unknown Soldier Memorial
In the last photo essay I posted, I stated that Egypt’s most important natural resource was her history. That was incorrect.
The number one most important natural resource of any country is its people, and its most important people are its children.
This photo essay is dedicated to Egypt’s children.
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Tags: Felucca, Islamic Egypt, Mausoleum of Aga Khan, Mortuary Temple of Djoser, Nile River, Nubia, Saqqara, Waterwheel
The Seti I replica tomb project, Egyptian rock art, the Guardian Geese of Abusir, and more.
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Tags: Abusir, Akhenaten, Amarna, Archaeology, Cairo Museum, Egyptian Tombs, Egyptian Tourism, Islamic Egypt, Rock Art, Seti I, Valley of the Kings
The number one natural resource in Egypt is history. Unlike its oil-rich neighbors, the Egyptian economy relies on the foreign money of tourists who fly into Cairo from all points of the compass to see colossal monuments, puzzle over cyclopean architecture, and experience walking where the ancients once lived out their days. This has resulted in an organic fusion of the very ancient with the ultra modern.
No place on earth exemplifies this merger like Cairo. This photo essay takes a look at some instances where the ancient meets the modern.
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Tags: Abdeen Palace, Cairo, Cairo Architecture, Egyptian Mosques, Islamic Egypt, Islamic History, Khan el-Khalili, Minaret, Modern Egypt, Sultan Hassan Mosque
Built more than 1,100 years ago, the Mosque of ibn Tulun still looks largely the way it did when first constructed, although the entire city that was built around it was destroyed just 26 years later.
The mosque tells the story of a court servant, the son of a Turkish slave, who came to rule all of Egypt and part of Syria. He would rise to declare independence for his kingdom–as well as himself–from those who once owned him. This article will explore the history of Ahmad ibn Tulun and the mosque that bears his name.
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Tags: Abbasid Caliphate, Ahmad ibn Tulun, Al-Qatta'i, Cairo, Egyptian Mosques, Egyptian Tourism, Islamic Egypt, Islamic History, Jabal Yaskur, Mosque of ibn Tulun, Riwaq, Samarra, Ziyada
How was the Great Pyramid of Khufu built?
