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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 ...
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, four mummies – the priestess Hortesnakht of Akhmim, [33] the lady Rer of Saqqara, [33] an unidentified man from the 4th or 3rd century BCE (known as "the mummy from Szombathely" after the location of the previous collection he was part of) [34] and a man from the 2nd century BCE (known as "the unwrapped mummy" as he was already unwrapped when the museum ...
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 ...
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]
This area is a roughly 100-mile drive northeast from Cairo. One of the artifacts found at the 3,400-year-old rest house. Photos show what’s left of the 3,400-year-old rest house.
The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, commonly known as the Egyptian Museum (Arabic: المتحف المصري, romanized: al-Matḥaf al-Miṣrī, Egyptian Arabic: el-Matḥaf el-Maṣri [elˈmætħæf elˈmɑsˤɾi]) (also called the Cairo Museum), located in Cairo, Egypt, houses the largest collection of Egyptian antiquities in the world. [1]
Known as Ramses the Great, the pharaoh ruled Egypt from 1279 B.C. to 1213 B.C. and is credited with expanding Egypt's reach as far as modern day Syria to the east and Sudan to the south.
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 ...