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504. Captured. Yaser Abdel Said (Arabic: ياسر سعيد; born January 27, 1957) is an Egyptian-American convicted murderer. For 12 years, Said evaded arrest for the January 1, 2008, fatal shootings of his two daughters, whose bodies were found in his abandoned taxi cab in Irving, Texas. [2][3] Said went into hiding after the killings.
Raya and Sakina (Arabic: ريا وسكينة) were two Egyptian women who were Egypt 's most infamous serial killers. Raya and Sakina were siblings. They, their husbands, and two other men began killing 17 women in the Labban neighborhood of Alexandria in 1919. [2][3] The police were plagued by increasing reports of missing women.
Omaima Aree Nelson (Arabic: أميمة عارف; born 1968) is an Egyptian murderer. She was convicted of the 1991 murder of her partner Bill Nelson, for which she was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1992. Her case made international headlines due to allegations of bondage sex, decapitation, castration and cannibalism.
Murder of Giulio Regeni. Giulio Regeni (Italian pronunciation: [ˈdʒuːljo reˈdʒɛːni], 15 January 1988 – c. January–February 2016) was an Italian PhD student at the University of Cambridge who was kidnapped in Cairo on 25 January 2016, the fifth anniversary of the Tahrir Square protests, and found dead on 3 February near an Egyptian ...
The Story of Sinuhe (also referred to as Sanehat or Sanhath) [2] is a work of ancient Egyptian literature. It was likely composed in the beginning of the Twelfth Dynasty after the death of Amenemhat I (also referred to as Senwosret I). The tale describes an Egyptian man who flees his kingdom, and lives as a foreigner before returning to Egypt ...
Luxor massacre. The Luxor massacre was a terrorist attack that occurred on 17 November 1997 in Egypt. It was perpetrated by al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya and resulted in the deaths of 62 people, most of whom were tourists. It took place at Dayr al-Bahri, an archaeological site located across the Nile from the city of Luxor.
The oldest layer of the Egyptian naming tradition is native Egyptian names. These can be either traced back to pre-Coptic stage of the language, attested in Hieroglyphic, Hieratic or Demotic texts (i.e. ⲁⲙⲟⲩⲛ, ⲛⲁⲃⲉⲣϩⲟ, ϩⲉⲣⲟⲩⲱϫ, ⲧⲁⲏⲥⲓ) or be first attested in Coptic texts and derived from purely Coptic lemmas (i.e ...
Akhenaten (pronounced / ˌ æ k ə ˈ n ɑː t ən / listen ⓘ), [8] also spelled Akhenaton [3] [9] [10] or Echnaton [11] (Ancient Egyptian: ꜣḫ-n-jtn ʾŪḫə-nə-yātəy, pronounced [ˈʔuːχəʔ nə ˈjaːtəj] ⓘ, [12] [13] meaning 'Effective for the Aten'), was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh reigning c. 1353–1336 [3] or 1351–1334 BC, [4] the tenth ruler of the Eighteenth Dynasty.