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The Cairo Ring Road is a 100km long ring road that encircles most of the contiguous metropolitan area of the cities of Cairo, Giza and Shubra Al-Kheima, in the Greater Cairo region in Egypt . Construction began in the late 1980s. It was originally planned to surround the Greater Cairo region from three of its four sides, [1] but part of the ...
Ink: Ink was used in Ancient Egypt for writing and drawing on papyrus from at least the 26th century BC. [134] Siphon: Ancient Egyptian reliefs from 1500 BC depict siphons used to extract liquids from large storage jars. [149] [150] Merkhet: The merkhet was an ancient surveying and timekeeping instrument.
Shen ring. A ram headed bird representing the ba of Ra with shen rings in his grasp. (Louvre Museum) In ancient Egypt a shen ring was a circle with a line tangent to it, represented in hieroglyphs as a stylised loop of a rope. The word shen itself means, in ancient Egyptian, encircle, while the shen ring represented eternal protection.
Assassin's Creed Origins is a 2017 action role-playing video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. It is the tenth major installment in the Assassin's Creed series, following 2015's Assassin's Creed Syndicate. Principally set in Egypt, near the end of the Ptolemaic period from 49 to 38 BC, the story follows a Medjay named ...
112 (emergency telephone number) 112 is a common emergency telephone number that can be dialed free of charge from most mobile telephones and, in some countries, fixed telephones in order to reach emergency services (ambulance, fire and rescue, police). 112 is a part of the GSM standard and all GSM-compatible telephone handsets are able to dial ...
Cellular communications. See also Telephone numbers in Egypt. Currently, there are four companies which offer cellular communication service: Orange, Vodafone, Etisalat, and We (by Telecom Egypt ). These companies also provide services surpassing voice communication, such as 4G, 3G, and mobile internet.
Egyptian finger and toe stall. A set of finger and toe stalls belonging to one of the foreign wives of Thutmose III, dating to the 15th century B.C. Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Egyptian finger and toe stalls are pieces of gold jewelry used in Ancient Egypt to protect digits during burial. Such stalls were used during the 18th Dynasty ...
Saint Katherine Protectorate. Coordinates: 28°33′N 33°58′E. St Katherine Protectorate is an Egyptian national park in the south of Sinai. It encloses most of the mountainous area of central South Sinai, including the country's highest mountain, Mount Catherine at 2,629 metres (8,625 ft) above sea level. In 2002, a 640 km 2 area demarcated ...