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Written by: Tahany Abdel Salam, Randa Borhan 16 Dec

Uncle Ramadan: an artist who transforms mud into artifacts, telling the story of history

Pottery is that the oldest craft known to the traditional Egyptian, who discovered since history the spirit of silt that the river brings and accumulates in its fertile valley, so he shaped it and burned it in furnaces that ripen and provides it solidity, and he reached a high degree of accuracy

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Reported by :Egyptian Geographic, Translated by: R kamel 17 Oct

When the Nile was up to the pyramids 160 years ago

More than 160 years ago, Haram Street was just a stream branching from the Nile, and also the encompassing areas were empty agricultural lands, and in 1869 Khedive Ismail ordered the paving of Al Haram Street in preparation for receiving the kings and heads of states of the earth to Egypt to attend

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written By: MedhatAbd El Rahman Ibrahim 09 Oct

Abu Simbel temple be decorated with the first astronomical complex for observing the stars in Africa?

Along the west bank of the great river "Nile" lies Nasser Lake where Abu Simble Temples the magnificent pharonic monuments are 300 m. far away from Aswan High Dam, Along the east bank of the river there is a large area of land over looking Nasser's Lake, quite, warm and clear sky that

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written By: mostapha Abdel Salam, Translated by: Amira Abd El Basset 09 Oct

The birth of “travel photography” in Egypt 170 years ago

Ever since Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) briefly conquered Egypt in 1799, the French had been fascinated with the mysterious East as this distant and exotic place, holder of mysterious and ancient secrets, The psychological phenomenon of Othering an entire region is known today as Orientalism but

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Written by: Mostapha Abdel Salam, Translated by: R kamel 21 Sep

Alamein Memorial: a witness to the foremost important battles of the Second warfare

Sixty-six years ago, specifically on the twenty-fourth of October of the year 1954, the cemeteries of El Alamein were inaugurated, which contain the remains of nearly 20 thousand soldiers, additionally to about 50 thousand names of missing soldiers within the battles that occurred within the city

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