Monuments Sight Seeing Attractions Hanging Church Monuments Sight Seeing Attractions Hanging Church Known in Arabic as al-Muallaqah (“The Suspended”), the Hanging Church is the most famous Coptic church in Cairo,The church is dedicated to the Virgin Mary and is thus also known as Sitt Mariam or St. Mary’s Church. The Hanging Church is named for […]
Monuments Sight Seeing Attractions Jewesh Synangue Monuments Sight Seeing Attractions Jewesh Synangue Little evidence, all of which is circumstantial at best, exists to substantiate the Jewish Exodus from Egypt. Frankly, the predecessors of those people who would begin to call themselves Jewish probably came to Egypt very early and during different periods and may have […]
Luxor temple Luxor Temple, or The Temple of Luxor, is among the most beautiful Temples in Egypt. It was known in the New Kingdom period as Ipt-Rsyt, which means the southern shrine. This was to differentiate between this Temple and Karnak Temple, which was the northern house of Amon Ra. Amenhotep III built Luxor Temple. […]
Monuments Sight Seeing Attractions Refai Mosque Monuments Sight Seeing Attractions Refai Mosque Salah El Din SquareDown Town, Cairo El-Rifai Mosque is Cairo is one of the last monumental mosques to be built in Cairo that was built in an edifice worthy of the legacy left by Salah El Din and Sultan Hassan. Refai Mosque Description […]
Tahrir Square Tahrir Square was the focal point of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution against former president Hosni Mubarak. Over 50,000 protesters first occupied the square on 25 January, during which the area’s wireless services were reported to be impaired. In the following days Tahrir Square continued to be the primary destination for protests in Cairo. […]
El Sharkia Governorate El Sharkia Governorate was the twelfth province of Lower Egypt; its Capital was Bobastis which became later The Capital of Egypt. This governorate was founded during the reign of the Fatimid era before that it was divided into several villages, then they were combined together and named the Eastern region or ( […]
Abu simbel Egypt Abu simbel Egypt In 1257 BCE, Pharaoh Ramses II (1279-13 BCE) had two temples carved out of solid rock at a site on the west bank of the Nile south of Aswan in the land of Nubia and known today as Abu Simbel. Long before Ramses II, the site had been sacred […]
Monuments Sight Seeing Attractions Salih Talai Mosque Monuments Sight Seeing Attractions Salih Talai Mosque was built in 1160 by the emir As-Salih Talai who was vizier to the last of the Fatimid caliphs,There are five Persian arches within the freestone facade, which are concealed from the street by mashrabiya panels. These were added about the […]
Aswan high dam Aswan high dam Introduction The River Nile is the only main source for Egypt’ swater,Realizing that Egypt’ s territories lie in arid and semi-arid zones, with very poor rainfall and underground aquifers and in the tail reach of the Nile, the Egyptians have given great attention, since ancient times, to their mighty […]
Black desert Black desert Tours Travel to a mysterious and otherworldly destination on ,Travelers will experience the incredible scenery of this remarkable region in the midst of the pale desert sands. A Land of Contrasts Though the land of Egypt is usually viewed as a “desert” country, full of sand and sun, in fact it […]