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Archived from the original on 6 February 2003. – photos of the Egyptian-themed compound in Georgia "United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors: Demolition" . 20 August 2005. Archived from the original on 12 January 2006. – before & after photos of the demolition of Tama-Re
Kurna (also Gourna, Gurna, Qurna, Qurnah or Qurneh; Arabic: القرنة) is a group of three closely related villages (New Qurna, Qurna and Sheikh Abd el-Qurna) located on the West Bank of the River Nile opposite the modern city of Luxor in Egypt near the Theban Hills.
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Egypt ratified the convention on 7 February 1974, the second country to do so after the United States. [3] There are seven World Heritage Sites in Egypt, and a further 34 sites on the tentative list. [4] The first sites in Egypt were listed in 1979, when five properties were inscribed.
The Great Temple of Athribis was recently found by a group of German and Egyptian archaeologists, according to the Egyptian government. The temple is over 2,000 years old.
Medinet Habu (Arabic: مدينة هابو, romanized: Madīnat Hābū; Ancient Egyptian: ḏꜣmwt; Sahidic Coptic: (ⲧ)ϫⲏⲙⲉ, ϫⲏⲙⲏ, ϫⲉⲙⲉ, ϫⲉⲙⲏ, ϫⲏⲙⲓ; Bohairic Coptic: ϭⲏⲙⲓ) [1] is an archaeological locality situated near the foot of the Theban Hills on the West Bank of the River Nile opposite the modern city of Luxor, Egypt.
Polychrome glass vase from Malkata. Walters Art Museum.The city had an extensive glass industry, the first in Egypt. There are various structures in the desert, consisting of several residential palaces, a temple of Amun, a festival hall, elite villas, houses for the relatives of the royal family, apartments for attendants, and a desert altar termed the Kom al-Samak, all of which were ...
The first Sunni madrasa in Egypt was commissioned by Saladin near the important Mausoleum of Imam al-Shafi'i in Cairo's Southern Cemetery. [ 56 ] The end of the Ayyubid period and the start of the Mamluk period was marked by the creation of the first multi-purpose funerary complexes in Cairo.