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Khan El Khalili Bazaar
The classic beginning of the visit to Islamic Cairo starts from the great medieval bazaar of Khan al Khalili, the commercial heart of the...
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May 3, 20206 min read
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Islamic Cairo
Islamic Cairo is the medieval district of Cairo and one of the oldest Islamic cities in the world. The walled area houses large mosques,...
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Salah El Din Citadel in Cairo
Originally founded in 1176 by the Muslim leader Saladin, who had the mighty walls and towers built with stone blocks taken from the...
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The Egyptian Museum in Cairo
Contrary to its great reputation, the Egyptian Museum in Cairo is not very extensive in surface area. It is arranged over two floors,...
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May 3, 20208 min read
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God Sobek | Gods of Egypt
Sobek is the ancient Egyptian God of Strength, Fertility, and Power. Sobek always represented as a crocodile or a man with the head of a...
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God Bes | Gods of Egypt
Bes is perhaps the strangest of the divinities of ancient Egypt: a dwarf portrayed from the front, with the huge face of a mask with...
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May 3, 20206 min read
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The Osiris Myth | The Story of Isis and Osiris
The ancient Egyptians imagined that the sky and the earth, male and female, married and had two sons. They are Osiris and Seth; and of...
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May 3, 20207 min read
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God Serapis | Gods of Egypt
Serapis is an Egyptian god who mixed the aspects of the god Osiris and god Apis and becoming a popular cult in Ptolemaic Egypt and...
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God Ptah | Gods of Egypt
God Ptah, patron of artists, his cult was particularly important during the Memphite age when he was considered the creator of the...
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Goddess Mut | Gods of Egypt
Goddess Mut, wife of Amun and lady of Thebes. The cult of Mut rose in importance during the New Kingdom and Amenhotep III had a sacred...
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May 3, 20207 min read
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Book of the Dead | Ancient Egyptian Religion
The purpose of the book of the dead was to accompany the deceased on the long journey that, from earthly life, would escort them into the...
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May 3, 20207 min read
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God Anubis | Gods of Egypt
Anubis was one of the most famous ancient Egyptian gods. People knew him as Anpu or Inpu. Anubis is among the oldest deities who can be...
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Goddess Hathor | Gods of Egypt
As patron of the sacred tree it is associated with sycamore, palm, and fig tree, always in the act of feeding the deceased. Its name,...
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May 3, 20206 min read
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Goddess Nephthys | Gods of Egypt
Nephthys, an Egyptian goddess, daughter of Geb and Nut, sister of Isis, Osiris and Seth, The scarcely significant quality of her name...
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May 3, 202012 min read
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God Seth | Gods of Egypt
Seth is one of the ancient Egyptian famous gods as a god of chaos. He is the brother and husband of the goddess Nephthys and also the...
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May 3, 20207 min read
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God Horus | Gods of Egypt
Throughout ages, many brave kings have ruled Egypt. Some of them got weak. Some others were attacked by strong armies, and many faced...
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May 2, 20206 min read
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God Thoth | Gods of Egypt
The ibis-headed God of wisdom and patron of scribes. His place of worship was located in Hermopolis. We will talk about this deity during...
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May 2, 20207 min read
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God Osiris | Gods of Egypt
Originally earthly king and god of fertility, whose name is also made from the hieroglyph of the throne, after being killed and brought...
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May 2, 20207 min read
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Goddess Isis | Gods of Egypt
The great goddess of magic who recomposed the disjointed body of her husband Osiris, thus creating the first mummy, and got their son...
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God Amun Ra | Gods of Egypt
Amun was a Local deity of Thebes (present Luxor), whose name means “He who is hidden. Elevated to the rank of the ruler of the gods in...
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May 2, 20208 min read
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