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The work of early nineteenth-century scholar Rifa’a et-Tahtawi gave rise to the Egyptian Renaissance, marking the transition from Medieval to Early Modern Egypt. His work renewed interest in Egyptian antiquity and exposed Egyptian society to Enlightenment principles. Tahtawi co-founded with education reformer Ali Mubarak a native Egyptology school that looked for inspiration to medieval Egyptian [...]

Egyptian culture has five thousand years of recorded history. Ancient Egypt was among the earliest civilizations and for millennia, Egypt maintained a strikingly complex and stable culture that influenced later cultures of Europe, the Middle East and other African countries. After the Pharaonic era, Egypt itself came under the influence of Hellenism, Christianity, and Islamic [...]

was a tower built in the 3rd century BC (between 285 and 247 BC) on the island of Pharos in Alexandria, Egypt to serve as that port’s landmark, and later, its lighthouse.
With a height variously estimated at between 115 and 150 m (380 and 490 ft) it was among the tallest man-made structures on Earth [...]

Ancient Library of Alexandria in Alexandria, Egypt, was once the largest library in the ancient world.
Generally thought to have been founded at the beginning of the third century BC, it was conceived and opened during the reign of Ptolemy I Soter, or that of his son Ptolemy II of Egypt. Plutarch (AD 46-120) wrote that [...]

The Hanging Church is considered the oldest church in the area of Al-Fustat .It is known as Al-Muallaka (the hanging) because it was built on the ruins of two old towers that remained from an old fortress called the Fortress of Babylon. It was dedicated to The Virgin Mary and St. Dimiana.
It dates back to [...]

was an ancient fortress city or castle in the Delta of Egypt, located at Babylon in the area today known as Coptic Cairo. It was situated in the Heliopolite Nome, upon the right (eastern) bank of the Nile, near the commencement of the Pharaonic Canal (also called Ptolemy’s Canal and Trajan’s Canal), from the Nile [...]

is an agricultural town in Egypt famous for the Temple of Kom Ombo. It was originally an Egyptian city called Nubt, meaning City of Gold (not to be confused with the city north of Naqada that was also called Nubt/Ombos). It became a Greek settlement during the Greco-Roman Period. The town’s location on the Nile [...]

The Egyptian Middle and New Kingdom capital of Thebes, in the modern town of Luxor Egypt, was first occupied during the Old Kingdom. It first grew to prominence in the Middle Kingdom, between 2025-1700 BC as the home city of ruling pharaohs such as Mentuhotep I.
The oldest standing building remains are pieces of the temple [...]

The Saqqara plateau is a flat desert landform close to the modern town of Saqqara, Egypt. Located on the plateau are many mastabas, temples and tombs, two of the most famous being Djoser’s Step Pyramid and Gisr el-Mudir. The Saqqara plateau was first used by pharaohs by the second Dynasty.
In 2008, a new pyramid was [...]

The pyramid texts are among the oldest religious writings in the world, consisting of spells found carved on the walls of several Egyptian tombs at Saqqara and likely dated to the Old Kingdom or First Intermediate Period (late 5th or early 6th dynasty, about 2435 BC). These are fragments of what was later to be [...]