Month: July 2017

Monuments Sight Seeing Attractions Meidum Necropolis Monuments Sight Seeing Attractions Meidum Necropolis Snefru’s pyramid at Meidum was surrounded by many private burials of Dynasty IV – the first newly established elite cemetery since the archaic necropolis at Saqqara. The fact that this necropolis was established gives credence to the suggestion that the Meidum pyramid did […]

Egypt geology Egypt geology is a land of contrasts – the fertile Nile Valley, the arid desert regions, the lowland Sahara and the highland Red Sea Hills. In spite of their apparent desolation, the deserts have frequently played an important part in Egyptian economic life. At the end of the Pleistocene, as the glaciers began […]

Giza Pyramids history: Giza Pyramids history is Among the major tourist sites, there is only one considered to be “The major” and on top of any list . There are three main Pyramids here, which were built in the 4th Dynasty (circa 2550 B.C). The Giza Pyramids history of Ancient Egypt were built as tombs for […]

Medieval Egypt The Arab Conquest, 639-41 Perhaps Medieval Egypt the most important event to occur in Egypt since the unification of the Two Lands by King Menes was the Arab conquest of Egypt. The conquest of the country by the armies of Islam under the command of the Muslim hero, Amr ibn al As, transformed Egypt […]

Modern Egypt Modern Egypt The Neo-Mamluk Beylicate, 1760-98 Most scholars of Egyptian history now agree that the political and economic changes that occurred in the early nineteenth century had their origins not in the French invasion of 1798 but rather in events that occurred in Egypt itself in the latter half of the eighteenth century. […]

Abydos Abydos has been used as a burial site and sacred site since predynastic history, It was originally sacred to jackal-headed god Wepwawet, who “opened way” to realm of dead. Anhur appeared in XI Dynasty at Abydos; Anubis rose importance in Middle Kingdom vanished the XVIII Dynasty. The worship of Osiris in various forms appeared […]

Monuments Sight Seeing Attractions Azhar Mosque Monuments Sight Seeing Attractions Azhar Mosque Located in El Hussein Square, the Al-Azhar Mosque (the most blooming), established in 972 (361 H) in a porticoed style shortly after the founding of Cairo itself, was originally designed by the Fatimid general Jawhar El-Sequili (Gawhara Qunqubay, Gawhar al-Sakkaly) and built on […]

Cairo tower Cairo tower Being on the top of a city like Cairo that has a vast area that is full of contradictions is quite an interesting experience. “This city looks quite different from above than what one see from bellow”, this famous sentence was said by Adel Emam, one of the most famous Egyptian […]

Dahab Dahab has a long history of luring travellers – and trapping for days or weeks on end – with the cheap ocean-side camps, golden beaches and rugged mountain backdrop. In recent years Dahab as expanded beyond humble origins, and now boasts smooth fusion of hippie mellowness and resort chic. The banana pancakes, moonlight spliffs […]

Monuments Sight Seeing Attractions Dahshur pyramids Monuments Sight Seeing Attractions Dahshur pyramids When you first get to Dahshur, you might be forgiven for not paying much attention to the strange looking hill or heap of rubble shown below. In fact, however, this is the so-called Black Pyramid of pharoah Amenemhat III who ruled from 1855-1808 […]