Khan el-Khalili

Khan el-Khalili

Khan el-Khalili
  
, one of the oldest markets in the Middle, a little older than 600 years, and still authentic architecture persists unchanged since the Mamluk era until now. Immigrated to him a large number of traders Palestinian city of Hebron and Sknoh and now has the community of folks Hebron inhabit it operates trade and them attributed Khan el-Khalili in Cairo has been named by that name proportion to its founder is one of the princes Mamluks and was named Yarkas Khalili, one of the city of Hebron


The first step on the land of Khan must be in Fishawi cafe, which is over the age of two hundred years, one of the oldest cafes in Cairo

Within the Khan al-Khalili

Khan el-Khalili district is one of the thirty-eight markets were in the days of the Mamluks in Cairo, Khan el-Khalili is located the center of the old city over the tombs of the Fatimid caliphs previously.The technique was presented by the goods in Old Cairo where she was Taatlasq markets and filled lanes Balhawwanat that displays the same goods at prices varying, is like Maicon exhibition lasting and durable goods different Mmajth an excellent opportunity for the buyer in the selected Mairead and choose the finest, and haggling and bargaining to get a more powerful and cheaper

 
Here goods of every type and color, gold, diamonds and silver to papyrus bearing words hieroglyphics and mascots and icons and poems Ghazlah, and engravings in blue tells the shorthand amazing beautiful tale love in history (story of Isis and Osiris) that accept them foreign tourists.In Khan el-Khalili keen women of all nationalities to buy (contract) from which dangle (Eye of Horus), and contracts are made from various ores

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Ibn Tulun mosque

Ibn Tulun mosque

Ibn Tulun mosque
Mosque of Ibn Tulun mosque is set up by Ahmed Ibn Tulun in 263 AH. Ahmad Ibn Tulun spent 120 thousand dinars in the construction, engineering matters were interested in the construction of the mosque. Minaret of the mosque is the oldest minaret found in Egypt. The Mosque of Ibn Tulun mosque only in Egypt, which was dominated by model Samarra, where the minaret Helicobacter listed. And cared by the Sultan Lajin where some reforms in it, and was appointed to a range of manufacturers, as is industry-hour in, they made the dome where strands small number of hours of day and night slot, if passed hour energy which is closed for that hour and so on, and then come back each time. In Ayyubites era became the Mosque of Ibn Tulun University taught by the four schools of Islamic jurisprudence, as well as modern and medicine as well as the education of orphans

about Ibn Tulun mosque

And Coptic Said bin Forghani Starter and followed by Badr al-Jamali to repair the mosque of Ibn Tulun has reforms in this mosque several times, also extended to him by the destruction and devastation in different periods of days through, like that of many other mosques. In Year 470 AH: 1077/78 AD The Badr al-Jamali, Minister Caliph al-Mustansir Fatimid some reforms mosque, and put on board a marble top a door Destination Marine, where care by Caliph al-Mustansir and ordered work niche of plaster portico kiss, very perfection, in addition to Mihraban Jsaan other one belongs to Tulunid era, and the second in the Fatimid era, both corridor kiss too.
And cared Mosque of Ibn Tulun King Fuad I, too, and work to repair the mosque where the Remember Arab Antiquities in 1882 restored and repaired in the year 1918, by order of King Fuad I prepare a draft for repair overhaul and release of what turned him from buildings and monitor so forty thousand pounds spent in a calendar falter of construction and renovation and restoration of the egg-white ceilings and decoration

 

The form of the Ibn Tulun mosque
The length of the Whole 138 m long and 118 meters surrounded by three points - Marine Bank and tribal - three increases View all of which 19 Mtraoicon combined with these increases square whose sides measure 162 meters on the face of rounding of an open courtyard square along the rib 92 meters strikethrough dome mounted octagonal neck based on a square base by four arched openings and Bustha basin to wash and no peace within the thickness of marine Haútha climb it to the level of the neck. The courtyard is surrounded by four corridors of the largest gallery kiss and includes five rows of tapered contracts carried on the shoulders of a rectangular sector Astdert corners in the form attached to poles and includes all of the other three galleries on two rows only. It covers the four corridors roof of a modern wood-made and at the bottom, rode Mizar old wood labeled of the Koran Kufic magnifier

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Hussein Mosque in Egypt

Hussein Mosque in Egypt

Hussein Mosque

Mosque Imam Hussein bin Ali in Cairo, Egypt. And is located in the Old Cairo neighborhood named after Imam Al-Hussein and next to the mosque also there is the famous Khan el-Khalili and Al-Azhar mosque

 
Date mosque

Built a mosque in the era of the Fatimids in 549 Hijri calendar for the year 1154 under the supervision of the Minister of Good Vanguards, featuring 3 Doors Mosque built white marble overlooking the Khan el-Khalili, and another door next to the dome and knows the green door.

 

Called the mosque that name due to the belief of some that there Imam Husayn's head buried him, as telling some stories that with the beginning of the Crusades feared ruler of Egypt Fatimid caliph on the head-Sharif from the harm that might result in the first place in the city of Ashkelon, Palestine, sent requests come head to Egypt carry head-Sharif to Egypt and buried in its present position and built the mosque on it.  

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Pyramid of Saqqara

Pyramid of Saqqara

 

Listed first royal tomb in history built between 2737 BC. AD - 2717 BC.. Located in Saqqara, south of Cairo
And is designed as a burial of Pharaoh Djoser by the Minister Imhotep in the form of six terraces above the tunnel descended to the burial site

This pyramid first known building a memorial made ​​of stones in the world, as evidenced by its name is a series of six levels of stone decreasing in size to that reach a height of 62 meters (200 feet) and its rectangular base measuring 390 -350 feet

The external shape of a pyramid of Saqqara

Shows the best form of the pyramid of the east side.
After the construction of the third phase, the process of making a pyramid real, and Kdastkhaddmt more than 200,000 tons of stone for building Almustptin additional figs and placed above the four existing, maker of it a pyramid with six degrees, and then added the face of limestone white on the north side of the pyramid.

Pyramid is one of the most significant impacts timeless remainder of the ancient Egyptians as first thing must be talking about is Mastaba this first bench when it was built for the first time has been built in order to be just a bench built of local stone covered with a layer of limestone was a height of about 26 feet and displayed 207 feet

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Queen Hatshepsut

Queen Hatshepsut

The original name of Hatshepsut is: gained the Amon Hatshepsut and the means: favorite concubine Amon on ladies or concubine Amon Dora princesses. She is the daughter of King Tuthmosis I and wife of Tuthmosis II and stepmother Thutmose III fathered Tuthmosis II, Tuthmosis III of a royal concubines.A limestone statue of Tempered Hatshepsut at the Metropolitan Museum. Statue produced without conventional chin aliases, but it keeps the rest of the Pharaonic authority figures; live property - obviously removed - and Alkhat robe head


Queen Maat Ka Ra Hatshepsut (- 1482 BC..) One of the most famous queens in history, and the fifth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty, ruled from 1503 BC.. Until 1482 BC.. And discriminate strongly outdated military, construction and flights carried out. It's eldest daughter Pharaoh of Egypt, King Thutmose I and her mother Queen Ahmose Her father was the king had fathered illegitimate son is Tuthmosis II has accepted to marry him on the usually royal families to participate together in the rule after his death, and that a solution to the problem of the existence of legitimate heir to him

  
  

This queen left enigmatic many secrets and may be more of those puzzles raise personal "die" so the engineer who built her temple
famous Bahari, who gave him 80 for titles and was responsible for the care of her only daughter has reached from his love for Mlicth to dig a tunnel between the tomb and his tomb

The reign of Queen Hatshepsut 

Characterize the era of Queen Hatshepsut prosperity and military strength, peace and was trying to maximum effort for the development of private and commercial relations with the countries of the ancient Near East to prevent any wars with them

 
Inauguration of Queen Hatshepsut ruleHad problems with people where he was seen by most people as a woman can not rule the country, as it was the king, according to custom, a representative of the god Horus ruling on the ground. So it was always worn and festooned with clothes men

 
Hatshepsut's death
  
Hatshepsut died on January 14, 1457 BC

 

Alexandria nationalist Museum

Alexandria nationalist Museum

There Alexandria nationalist Museum in Alexandria in Egypt.

And museum houses more than 1800 artefacts represent most of the times that have passed over the city, which was founded in 332 BC.. The address of 110 Horreya

The Alexandria nationalist Museum

The museum displays nearly 1,800 artifacts ranging from the Pharaonic era and the Ptolemaic period, which flourished Alexandria and then the Roman and Byzantine eras, Islamic and up to the modern era began the era of the family of Muhammad Ali Pasha and the end of the revolution on July 23 1952

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Karnak Temple and the road Kabash

Karnak Temple and the road Kabash

Karnak Temple of Luxor in Egypt signs deals where each successive king of kings tries to make the most magnificent temple. Characterized by his predecessor to Karnak Temple turned into a complete guide and variety shows the evolution of ancient Egyptian art and architecture Pharaonic deals.Characterized the Great Temple of Karnak offers charming sound and light, which is held every evening, which is a great way to discover the Temple of Karnak. Km distance between Luxor and Karnak 3 kilometers, punctuated on both sides of the road a large number of small sphinxes or what is known as the path of rams. The Temple of Karnak is the largest house of worship gated on the face of the earth

road Kabash 

road Kabash is the road that connects the Luxor Temple, the temple of Karnak, the start of the beach roomy Street, fraught with statues of sphinxes found in the temples of Karnak represented in the form of sphinxes head of a ram, and a ram here symbolizes the god Amun.There along the way of 2.700 km 1200 statue and display this road 76 m were these statues carved from a single block of sandstone with Cornish engraved with the name Allmk ​​and trophy and praise him or her place on the base of the stone consists of 4 courses of stone used because of some inscriptions were held bodies: the first: take the form of the body of a lion and a human head (Sphinx) second: take the form of a ram body and head of a ram as a symbol of the symbols of the god Amun Ra earthworks for road Kabash

bodies: the first: take the form of the body of a lion and a human head (Sphinx) second: take the form of a ram body and head of a ram as a symbol of the symbols of the god Amun Ra earthworks for road Kabash


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