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Cairo Egypt
In General
Cairo Which Egyptians call the mother of all city's is an amazing city full
of life and energy.
24 hours every day is noisy honking of
horns and local sellers that they sell almost everything. Is a
disoriented place but most of the cities lays on the east bunk of
the river Nile. Visitors often felling most comfortably footing
them feet in the western down town district of the central Cairo
around Mintan Dahrir. It is not just the Pharaohning monuments that
have drawn travelers in this country but also the
feeling of been
here. since long before the birth of Christ is legacy from the
Greeks Romans and early Christians and the profusion of art
architecture accumulated from centuries of the success Islamic
dynasties.
Khan El Khalili
Khan el-Khalili for many is the most entertaining
part of Cairo, once known as the Turkish bazaar during the
Ottoman period, is now usually just called the Khan. The Khan is
bordered on the south by al-Azhar Street and on the west by the al
Muski Market. The market was built in 1382 by the Emir Djaharks
el-Khalili in the heart of the Fatimid City. the al-Muski
together with el-Khalili market they comprise and
represent the market tradition which established Cairo as a
major center of trade.
If you are in Khan el-Khalili
you have to drink tea and smoke shisha, Naguib
Mahfouz Cafe is a very famous spot, you can enjoy the eastern
atmosphere and specially under eastern music. As other attractions
of Cairo belly dancing show is something that cannot be missed,
there are many casinos with belly dancers shows most of them located
at AL Haram street. Khan
el-Khalili It is un ancient shopping area and one of the
sights in
Egypt that you should not miss.
Pyramids
The pyramids of giza is the most famous monuments of
ancient Egypt they build around
4.500
years ago on a rocky desert plateau close to the Nile.
But The
intriguing Egyptian Pyramids they was something more then a
tombs for kings the mystery surrounding them symbolism and many of
this mysteries will never be solved. The great Pyramid of
Heops at Giza is the largest of the Pyramids of ancient Egypt
and was regarded from the ancient Greeks as one of the 7 wonders of
the world. Heopas as the Greeks call him ruled about 2589an till
2566 BC. When the old kingdom of Egypt was really in a
big prosperity and culture. After his death he was entombed in a
Pyramid that is astonishing for both its size and mathematical
precision. The Great Pyramid of Giza, built by the Egyptian pharaoh
Khufu during the Fourth Dynasty. The exact number of stones was
originally estimated at 2,300,000 stone blocks. The people of
ancient Egypt
believe that the death on earth is a start of a journey to the next
world, the embalmed body of the king was entombed to protect it and
allow his transformation to the after life. Exactly how the Pyramids
build its unclear It seems like that the Pyramids of Giza
not build by slaves but by paid laborers multivalent in the divinity
and immortality of them kings. Unfortunately inside the Pyramids
is nothing left more than 100.000 antiques from almost every period
of the ancient Egyptian history are housed in the Egyptian museum.

The Great Sphinx
The Great Sphinx
is a large man headed lion that was carved from a mound of natural
rock. is the national symbol of Egypt, and is have been built by the
4th Dynasty King, Khafre dated by the standard Egyptian chronology
to 2558-2532 BC. For many years now is a lot of legends about the
Great Sphinx. The stories tell about the powers and mysteries of the
sphinx. Some people even believe that there are hidden passageways
or rooms underneath of the Sphinx. Who shoot the nose off the Sphinx
It was the Turks who purportedly shot it off during target practice
or Napoleon nobody knows really.
Tutankhamen

The most of the treasures it was
found in the tomb of the young king pharaoh Tutankhamen.
Tutankhamen
born around 1347 BC. He was the 12 ruler of the 18 dynasty.
Tutankhamen was the son of King Akhenaten and his secondary wife,
Kiya. He spent his early years in Amarna, His mother seems to have
died giving birth to him and his father die when Tutankhamen was
just 10 years old. The name Tutankhamen mean The living image of the
god Amun. When he was 9 he married his
half-sister Ankhesenamen, who was about his age. The legend says
that anyone who dares to open his tomb will suffer the curse of the
mummy.
Tutankhamen die 18 years old. A small sliver of bone within
the appear cranial cavity of his mummy that shows that the young
pharaoh might have been killed by a blow to the head this discovered
from X-rays analysis.

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