Marvels of Cairo, Nile & Mediterranean

The Pyramids of Giza were built during a frenetic period of construction, from roughly 2550 to 2490 B.C , The Great Pyramid of Giza is 481 feet tall , The ancient Egyptian built the Pyramids of Giza which the largest of the Pyramids of Giza, is the only Great Wonder still standing.

Salah El-Din built the citadel to connect Cairo and Fustat, Egypt’s largest cities at that time, to defend the city against the Crusaders the most popular citadel in Cairo. Salah El-Din built it in 1176 AD, it was the place of most Egypt’s rulers for 700 years.

Sphinx was built more than 4,500 years ago, to guard the pyramid of Giza. It has the head of a Human and the body of a lion , The ancient Egyptians believed that the sphinx was a representation of their solar deity, Sun God, Horemakhet or Horus of the Horizon. Historical records from the New Kingdom show that in Egyptian culture the sphinx symbolized royalty and sacred status.

The Karnak temple complex at Luxor developed over more than 1,000 years between the Middle Kingdom (2080–1640 B.C.), it is the largest and most important religious complex in ancient Egypt and the largest religious building ever built, is the Temple of Amun-Ra, considered to be where that god lived on earth with his wife, Mut, and son, Khonsu, who also have temples at the site.

One of that aforementioned monuments is the mortuary temple of Hatshepsut. Located. Built for the Eighteenth Dynasty pharaoh, Queen Hatshepsut. It is believed that the mortuary temple of Hatshepsut in the time of the eighteenth dynasty more specifically in the ruling time of the female queen Hatshepsut. The temple is located in upper Egypt.

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Constructed over hundreds of years by Amenhotep III, Ramses II, Tutankhamun, and other pharaohs, Luxor Temple was the largest and most significant religious center in ancient Egypt. In what was then Thebes, Luxor Temple was “the place of the First Occasion,” where the god Amon experienced rebirth during the pharaoh’s annually reenacted coronation ceremony

Aswan High Dam, rock-fill dam across the Nile River at Aswan, Egypt, completed in 1970,The dam impounds the floodwaters, releasing them when needed to maximize their utility on irrigated land, The creation of the dam’s reservoir necessitated the costly relocation of the ancient Egyptian temple complex of Abu Simbel, which would otherwise have been submerged

The Philae Temple is a gem on Aglika Island in the middle of the Nile ,This legendary site was built in 690 BC to honor Isis, the Egyptian goddess of healing and magic. It was built by the last dynasty of ancient Egypt, the Ptolemaic. It is dedicated to Isis, the goddess of healing, birth, and magic

Dedicated to the god Horus , lord of Edfu, the Temple of Horus is the most famous monument at Tell Edfu. Due to its completeness and state of preservation, it is the best example of Ptolemaic temple building in Egypt. The temple is oriented from south to north, measuring little over 140m long and occupying an area of about 7000m2.

The Citadel of Qaitbay located in the island of pharos western of Alexandria city , was built on the old lighthouse location after it was destroyed by the earth wake, the castle is square shaped with 150 meter area surrounded by the middle sea from each side, Qaitbay citadel has its important position one the white sea coast

It is a Roman triumphal column in Alexandria who was Julius Caesar’s rival in a civil war and was murdered by a Ptolemaic pharaoh in 48 BC when he fled to Alexandria. It is the largest of its type. In fact, it constructed outside of the imperial capitals of Rome and Constantinople. Pompey’s Pillar Alexandria is the only which known free-standing column in Roman Egypt.

At the end of ancient Egyptian kingdom, ruled the Ptolemaic Roman emperors ruled as pharaohs of Egypt, The catacombs are serial of Alexandrian tombs reach deep under the ground, consists of three levels of 35 meters burial chambers cut into bedrocks. This center piece leads to inner sanctum. The antechamber is covered by cravings for Egyptian god Anubis (the god of dead) dressed like Romans, and some statue for Romans emperors who ruled Egypt during this period

It was discovered by coincidence in the year of 1960 ,The Greek amphitheaters were usually structured as circular or oval shape with many seated steps for the audience , It was actually more like open air stadium, and was spread all over countries like Italy, Turkey, Jordan and Greece when Romans were dominating all of these regions It was proven that the theatre was built since the 4th and was used up until the 7th century passing by the Roman, byzantine century

The new library of Alexandria is located on the Eastern ,near the site of the Ancient one. it was inaugurated on 2002. It is quite famous for being the world’s sixth largest Francophone library in the world. The library is trilingual as it contains book in Arabic, English, and French and many more languages