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After 225-year closure, Egypt reopens Al-Zahir Baybars Mosque

 Egypt abounds with  numerous  literal kirks              of a unique Islamic character, each of which tells the story of an ancient and unique civilization and culture.   Among these  literal kirks              is the Al- Zahir Baybars Mosque, which is considered one of the largest university kirks              in Egypt, and its establishment dates back to the time 665 AH.   The third- largest  major synagogue  in Egyptian history, Al- Zahir Baybars Mosque, was  restarted by the government of Egypt after a 225- time  check.   After the synagogue  was opened and restored, Mohamed Mokhtar Gomaa, Minister of bents, and Khaled Abdel- Aal, Governor of Cairo, were present for the first Friday prayer.   The synagogue  bears the name of Sultan al- Zaher Baybars al- Banduqdari, the  factual author ...

Orascom Pyramids Entertainment invites ambassadors to tour Giza Plateau project

 Amr Gazarin, Administrative speaker of Orascom Conglomerations Entertainment, has invited several ministers of Arab and Foreign  countries accredited to Egypt to  modernize them on the  rearmost developments of the Giza Plateau  design. During the meeting, Gazarin  stressed how the  design is anticipated to boost tourism in the country by  furnishing callers with a unique and exceptional experience.   Gazarin accompanied the ministers on their  stint of the Giza Conglomerations.   also, the Administrative speaker of Orascom Conglomerations Entertainment showcased the  rearmost developments in the area, including the  recently developed stations,  caffs             , parking spaces, and other  installations for callers to enjoy. By  furnishing callers with a wide range of services, the  design aims to enhance their overall experience while visiting the conglomerat...

The tombs of the kings

 The tombs of the kings " The name itself is full of romance. Of all Egypt's wonders, I think, there is nothing that warrants recourse to imagination, as does the vision of the canyon of kings. Here in this valley, isolated from any voice of life below the Qurna, it is the highest peak in the hills of Taiba, seemingly upright behind the valley as a huge guard and natural pyramid above the hills of the valley, where thirty or more kings lie, among them the greatest monarchs Egypt has known throughout its history. are divided Valley of the Kings to the Eastern and Western Canyons. The east is the most famous part between them, with the West Valley having a few tombs, and the Valley of the Kings generally has more than sixty cemeteries as well as 20 incomplete tombs that are no more than drilling. The isolated nature of this valley was another reason to choose it as the last resting place of kings, it stole cemeteries in ancient times, and to avoid that fate as the pyramids of th...

Egyptian delegation in Paris to retrieve two 4,200-year-old murals smuggled in 2001

 Two showpieces dating back to the sixth dynasty of ancient Egypt( 2,345- 2,181 BC) were  recaptured on Monday in Paris by an Egyptian delegation after being stolen from an excavation  point in Cairo in 2001, a statement from the country’s prosecutor general Hamada El Sawy said.   Mr El Sawy is heading the delegation  presently in Paris to repudiate the decorated gravestone crossbeams.   The showpieces, both of which are cream- coloured and decorated with hieroglyphics, date back about 4,200 times and were discovered in 2001 by a French archaeological  charge digging in the Saqqara necropolis.   The  charge, led by  famed Egyptologist Vassil Dobrev,  exhumed the  grave of a sixth dynasty  clerk in an area where a number of other  clerk  sepultures were also  exhumed. The  charge ended their work in 2001 and went on  vacation, only to return in 2002 to find that the two showpieces, wh...

Egypt's Palaces Of Culture Finished Listing The Elements Of The Intangible Heritage In The New Valley

 After 10 busy days in which it  voyaged the  townlets and centers of the New Valley Governorate, the  exploration  charge of the Atlas of Popular Legends combined to the General Authority for Culture Palaces, headed by director Hisham Atwa, concluded its field work in the governorate, to enumerate the  rudiments of impalpable artistic heritage in the Egyptian capital of culture for the time 2023.     The experimenter and  minstrel Masoud Shoman, head of the Scientific Committee for the Atlas of Popular Traditions, explained that the closing day was attended by the  vill of Al- Rashidah to complete the attestation of digging wells and covering the natural  remedial wells, in addition to  establishing traditional armature in terms of construction  styles and  styles and accoutrements  used, as well as collecting what's related to musical instruments made of Al- Ghab, especially Al- Satawiyyah and Al- Majrouna...

"KUNA": The Serapeum Temple, The Strangest Secrets Of Ancient Egyptian Civilization Baffling Archaeologists

 Kuwait News Agency( KUNA) reported  moment, Monday, that the Serapeum Temple is the strangest secret of the ancient Egyptian civilization that  thwarted archaeologists. shoveled under  gemstone depths of 400  measures.   And the agency added- in a  videotape  disquisition,  moment that scientists are still amazed and confused by the presence of 26 huge, well- made  coffins in this  tabernacle, and at these depths without the use of any drilling machines or  ways that helped place these  palls inside the  tabernacle, as the cover of one  box weighs 30 tons, and the body of the  box itself is 70 tons, which means that  roughly 500 men were  demanded to move each box.   She refocused out that whoever steps into the  tabernacle will notice that this group of  palls is made of solid  jewels( red and black  determinedness, basalt, schist and quartz), which the ancient ...

The Bracelets Of Ramses II Were Found In Tell Basta And Are Displayed In The Museum Of Civilization

 Irons of gold and lapis lazuli belonging to King Ramesses II, dating back to the 18th Dynasty, the reign of King Ramesses II," 1279- 1213 BC". The material it was made of was gold and lapis lazuli, and it was  set up in Tell Basta- east of the Delta.   The idea of establishing the gallery began when the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization" UNESCO"  blazoned, at the request of the Egyptian government, an  transnational  crusade to establish the Nubian Museum in Aswan, and the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Cairo in 1982. The foundation gravestone was laid in 2002 in the heart of Fustat, the first It's the oldest Islamic capital in Africa, after the Egyptian  mastermind won an  transnational architectural competition to design the gallery.   Construction work faltered until it was  fully finished, and a temporary exhibition hall on Egyptian crafts across the different  periods was o...

A Golden Mask Belonging To King Sheshenq II At The Tahrir Museum

 The Egyptian Museum is the oldest archaeological gallery in the Middle East, and it includes the largest collection of ancient Egyptian  agedness in the world. The gallery displays a large collection that extends from thepre-dynastic period to the Greek and Roman ages. Among the pieces displayed in the gallery are the golden mask of King Sheshenq II, the  period of transition. The third, Dynasty 22, which was  set up in the  grave of" Sheshenq II- Psusennes I" in Tanis," San El- Hagar" in the eastern Delta.   The  period of the third transition was generally known as a period of decentralization and weakness. By the end of his reign, Ramesses the Eleventh" 1099- 1069 BC" the last king of the New Kingdom- was no longer the de facto  sovereign  of all of Egypt. After his death, a branch of the Ramesses was taken from Tanis. San Hajar is  presently in the north- east of the Delta as their capital.   Although the reign of the...

Saqqara, The Treasure Of Egypt.. Archaeological Discoveries Still Fascinate The World

 The Saqqara necropolis is one of the most important archaeological areas in Egypt, as there are  sepultures whose walls are covered with eulogies of great beauty and  nobility, as well as conglomerations,  tabernacles, and  sepultures of the Serapeum. At the hands of the Egyptian archaeological  charge, and for this we review the most prominent archaeological discoveries in the region.   In 2010, the  charge of the Supreme Council of agedness  set up two ancient  sepultures in Saqqara dating back to the  period of the twenty- sixth dynasty, that is, about( 2500 times agone             ), and the first is considered one of the largest and largest archaeological  sepultures in the Saqqara region.   Zahi Hawass, Secretary- General of the Council and head of the  charge at the time, said The two  sepultures were sculpted into the  gemstone and were  set up at the Ras...