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1814 Al-Gawhara Palace at Cairo citadel [22] 1854 Kasr al-Nil (now demolished but the area in downtown Cairo still carries its name) [41] 1863 Gezirah Palace (now a private hotel) [48] 1863 Abdeen Palace - former royal residence, Cairo [22] 1897 Count Gabriel Habib El-Sakakini Pasha Palace at Old Cairo [49] [50] 1898 Anisa Wissa Palace, Fayoum ...
Abdeen District is the home of Abdeen Palace (Arabic: قصر عابدين), a 19th-century Cairo palace built by Khedive Ismail and served as the Egyptian royal household's primary official residence from 1874 until the July Revolution in 1952. [1] Since then it has been of the presidential palaces. [1]
Beit El-Umma has been carefully preserved in its original state as a museum, [1] providing its visitors with a rare taste of the lifestyles of the Egyptian political elite at that time. It has an Art Nouveau dining room, Louis XV style reception rooms, an Arab style living room, Turkish baths and a fine library, which has over 5,000 books. [ 2 ]
The Citadel of Cairo or Citadel of Saladin (Arabic: قلعة صلاح الدين, romanized: Qalaʿat Salāḥ ad-Dīn) is a medieval Islamic-era fortification in Cairo, Egypt, built by Salah ad-Din (Saladin) and further developed by subsequent Egyptian rulers.
The Stela of Akhenaten and his family is the name for an altar image in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo which depicts the Pharaoh Akhenaten, his queen Nefertiti, and their three children. The limestone stela with the inventory number JE 44865 is 43.5 × 39 cm in size and was discovered by Ludwig Borchardt in Haoue Q 47 at Tell-el Amarna in 1912. [ 1 ]
Sometimes referred to as “the world’s greatest open-air museum”, Luxor is the site of several monuments and ruins dating back to Egypt’s New Kingdom. It sits on the site of the ancient ...
The National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (NMEC) is a large museum (490,000 square metres (5,300,000 sq ft) located in Old Cairo, a district of Cairo, Egypt.. Partially opened in 2017, the museum was officially inaugurated on 3 April 2021 by President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, with the moving of 22 mummies, including 18 kings and four queens, from the Egyptian Museum in central Cairo, in an ...
This is how Billy Porter does Mondays. The "Pose" star arrived on the steps of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art carried by six shirtless pharaohs on an ancient Egyptian bed.