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The Cairo Geniza is an accumulation of almost 200,000 Jewish manuscripts that were found in the genizah of the Ben Ezra Synagogue (built 882) of Fustat, Egypt (now Old Cairo), the Basatin cemetery east of Old Cairo, and a number of old documents that were bought in Cairo in the later 19th century. These documents were written from about 870 to ...
The Egyptian Museum of Antiquities contains many important pieces of ancient Egyptian history. It houses the world's largest collection of Pharaonic antiquities. The Egyptian government established the museum built in 1835 near the Ezbekieh Garden and later moved to the Cairo Citadel. In 1855, Archduke Maximilian of Austria was given all of the ...
The 6th of October War Panorama is a museum and memorial to the 1973 October war, located in Heliopolis, Cairo. [1] Constructed over an area of 7.5 feddans (around 32,000 square metres), [2] it was inaugurated on 5 October 1989 by former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. It was built as a cylindrical fort-like building molded in Islamic ...
The number of Arabic newspapers in Egypt was about 200 in 1938. [1] There were also 65 newspapers published in languages other than Arabic, [ 1 ] such as Turkish , French and English . [ 2 ] By 1951 Arabic language newspapers numbered to about 400, while 150 were published in other languages. [ 1 ]
From east to west, they were: the Pelusiac, the Tanitic, the Mendesian, the Phatnitic (extant; now the Damietta or Damyat), the Sebennytic, the Bolbitinic, the Canopic (extant; now the Rosetta or Rashid). The Nile is intersected by a number of normally dry tributaries or wadis which traverse the Eastern Desert.
acud .eg. The New Administrative Capital ( NAC) [ 1][ 2] ( Arabic: العاصمة الإدارية الجديدة, romanized : al-ʿĀṣima al-ʾIdārīya al-Jadīda ), is a new urban community in Cairo Governorate, Egypt and a satellite of Cairo City. It is planned to be Egypt's new capital and has been under construction since 2015. [ 3]
Talaat Harb Square, the heart of Downtown Cairo Shurbagi building. Downtown Cairo (Egyptian Arabic: وسط البلد Wust al-Balad, "middle of town") is the colloquial name given to the 19th-century western expansion of Egypt's capital Cairo, between the historic medieval Cairo, and the Nile, which became the commercial center of the city during the 20th century. [1]
New Cairo ( Arabic: القاهرة الجديدة el-Qāhera el-Gedīda) is a satellite city within the metropolitan area of Cairo, Egypt. Administratively, it is part of the Eastern Area of Cairo, [ 2] administered by the New Urban Communities Authority. [ 3] The city was established in 2000 by merging three 'new' towns (The First, Third and ...