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 […]