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The mausoleum is located at Aswan along the Nile of Egypt, since Egypt was formerly the centre of power of the Fatimids, an Ismaili Shia dynasty. It is now also the resting place of Aga Khan IV . The construction of the mausoleum began in 1956 and ended in 1960. [ 1 ]
Archaeologists discovered 35 mummified remains of Egyptians in a tomb in Aswan in 2019. Italian archaeologist Patrizia Piacentini and El-Enany both reported that the tomb, where the remains of ancient men, women and children were found, dates back to the Greco-Roman period between 332 BC and 395 AD. While the findings assumed belonging to a ...
A team of archaeological divers found pieces of ancient Egyptian artifacts that have been sitting at the bottom of the Nile River since the area was flooded in the 1960s and 1970s.. During an ...
Hermanubis – A Greco-Egyptian god who was a syncretism from Hermes and Anubis [98] Hermes Trismegistus – A Greco-Egyptian god and legendary author of the Hermetica who was a syncretism from Hermes and Thoth [99] Heru-Khu – A god in the fifth division of Duat [39] Hery-Maat – A funerary deity depicted as a seated naked man [100]
Sabni (fl. c. 2250 BC) was an ancient Egyptian official of the Old Kingdom under king Pepi II. He was an expedition leader undertaking enterprises to Nubia. He is mainly known from his rock cut at Qubbet el-Hawa (near modern Aswan in the South of Egypt). [1] Sabni has a rock cut tomb in Qubbet el-Hawa. The tomb consist of two parts.
The tomb of Harkhuf and other tombs on the Qubbet el-Hawa. There have been about 100 tombs discovered as of July 2022. [1] The official website of the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities writes that the inscriptions on the walls of the tombs here highlight the importance of the roles nobles played during this period of history, such as launching exploratory and commercial voyages and ...
The Philae temple complex (/ ˈ f aɪ l iː /; Ancient Greek: Φιλαί or Φιλή and Πιλάχ, Arabic: فيلة Egyptian Arabic:, Egyptian: p3-jw-rķ' or 'pA-jw-rq; Coptic: ⲡⲓⲗⲁⲕ, ⲡⲓⲗⲁⲕϩ, [1] [2] Coptic pronunciation: [ˈpilɑk, ˈpilɑkh]) is an island-based temple complex in the reservoir of the Aswan Low Dam, downstream of the Aswan Dam and Lake Nasser, Egypt.
The Nubian Museum. The Nubian Museum (officially the International Museum of Nubia) is an archaeological museum located in Aswan, Upper Egypt.It was built following the UNESCO International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia, to a design by architect Mahmoud El-Hakim for an estimated construction cost of E£75 million (approximately US$22 million at the time).