Egypt Arabic : مصر Miṣr [mesˁr] ⓘ Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [mɑsˤr] Arab Republic of Egypt , is a country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula . It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north , the Gaza Strip of Palestine and Israel to the northeast , the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south , and Libya to the west ; the Gulf of Aqaba in the northeast separates Egypt from Jordan and Saudi Arabia . Cairo is the capital, largest city , and leading cultural center, while Alexandria is the second-largest city and an important hub of industry and tourism. With over 107 million inhabitants, Egypt is the third-most populous country in Africa and 14th-most populated in the world .
Egypt has one of the longest histories of any country, tracing its heritage along the Nile Delta back to the 6th–4th millennia BCE. Considered a cradle of civilisation , Ancient Egypt saw some of the earliest developments of writing, agriculture, urbanisation, organised religion and central government. Egypt was an early and important centre of Christianity , later adopting Islam from the seventh century onwards. Cairo became the capital of the Fatimid Caliphate in the tenth century and of the subsequent Mamluk Sultanate in the 13th century. Egypt then became part of the Ottoman Empire in 1517, until its local ruler Muhammad Ali established modern Egypt as an autonomous Khedivate in 1867. The country was then occupied by the British Empire along with Sudan and gained independence in 1922 as a monarchy .
Egypt is a developing country with the second-largest economy in Africa . It is considered to be a regional power in the Middle East, North Africa and the Muslim world , and a middle power worldwide. Islam is the official religion and Arabic is official language. Egypt is a founding member of the United Nations, the Non-Aligned Movement , the Arab League , the African Union , Organisation of Islamic Cooperation , World Youth Forum , and a member of BRICS . (Full article...
The three main pyramids at Giza, together with subsidiary pyramids and the remains of other structures
The Giza pyramid complex Giza necropolis ) in Egypt is home to the Great Pyramid , the pyramid of Khafre , and the pyramid of Menkaure , along with their associated pyramid complexes and the Great Sphinx . All were built during the Fourth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom of ancient Egypt , between c. 2600 – c. 2500 BC . The site also includes several temples, cemeteries, and the remains of a workers' village.
The site is at the edge of the Western Desert , approximately 9 km (5.6 mi) west of the Nile River in the city of Giza , and about 13 km (8.1 mi) southwest of the city centre of Cairo . It forms the northernmost part of the 16,000 ha (160 km2 ; 62 sq mi) Pyramid Fields of the Memphis and its Necropolis UNESCO World Heritage Site , inscribed in 1979. The pyramid fields include the Abusir , Saqqara , and Dahshur pyramid complexes, which were all built in the vicinity of Egypt's ancient capital of Memphis . Further Old Kingdom pyramid fields were located at the sites Abu Rawash , Zawyet El Aryan , and Meidum . Most of the limestone used to build the pyramids originates from the underlying Mokattam Formation . (Full article...
The following are images from various Egypt-related articles on Wikipedia.
Image 1 The Weighing of the Heart from the
Book of the Dead of Ani (from
Egypt )
Image 2 Green irrigated land along the Nile amidst the desert and in the
Nile Delta (from
Egypt )
Image 3 The fully electric
MCV C127 EV, made in Egypt for the German market, showcased at Busworld Europe 2023. (from
Egypt )
Image 4 Soad Hosny , film star (from
Egypt )
Image 6 Four colossal statues of
Ramesses II flank the entrance of his temple
Abu Simbel . (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 8 The pharaoh was usually depicted wearing symbols of royalty and power. (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 9 Anubis , the god associated with mummification and burial rituals, attending to a mummy (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 10 The
Amr ibn al-As mosque in Cairo, recognised as the oldest in Africa (from
Egypt )
Image 11 A figure wearing the red crown of Lower Egypt, most probably
Amenemhat II or
Senwosret II . It functioned as a divine guardian for the
imiut ; the divine kilt suggests that the statuette was not merely a representation of the living ruler. (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 12 Egyptian honour guard soldiers (from
Egypt )
Image 13 Ruins of Deir el-Medina (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 14 An offshore platform in the Darfeel Gas Field (from
Egypt )
Image 15 Napoleon defeated the
Mamluk troops in the
Battle of the Pyramids , 21 July 1798, painted by
Lejeune . (from
Egypt )
Image 16 The Cairo Metro (line 2) (from
Egypt )
Image 17 The
Fayum mummy portraits epitomize the meeting of Egyptian and Roman cultures. (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 18 Arabic calligraphy has seen its golden age in
Cairo . This adornment and beads being sold in
Muizz Street (from
Culture of Egypt )
Image 19 Menna and Family Hunting in the Marshes, Tomb of Menna,
c. 1400 BC (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 20 The "weighing of the heart" scene from the
Book of the Dead (from
Egypt )
Image 21 Pharaohs' tombs were provided with vast quantities of wealth, such as the
golden mask from the mummy of Tutankhamun . (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 22 The
Book of the Dead was a guide to the deceased's journey in the afterlife. (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 23 The Ptolemaic Queen
Cleopatra VII and her son by Julius Caesar,
Caesarion , at the
Temple of Dendera (from
Egypt )
Image 24 Seagoing ship of an expedition to Punt, from a relief of
Hatshepsut's Mortuary temple , Deir el-Bahari (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 25 The
Temple of Dendur , completed by 10 BC,
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City) (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 26 Egypt's topography (from
Egypt )
Image 27 The
Edwin Smith surgical papyrus describes anatomy and medical treatments, written in
hieratic ,
c. 1550 BC . (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 28 Illustration of various types of capitals, by
Karl Richard Lepsius (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 29 Tutankhamun charging enemies on his
chariot , 18th dynasty (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 30 Tanoura dancers performing in Wekalet El Ghoury, Cairo (from
Egypt )
Image 31 Soad Hosny , Egyptian film star. Among the most famous Egyptian and Arabic actresses. (from
Culture of Egypt )
Image 32 Egyptian literacy rate among the population aged 15 years and older by UNESCO Institute of Statistics (from
Egypt )
Image 33 A typical
Naqada II jar decorated with gazelles (Predynastic Period) (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 34 Ancient Egyptians playing music (from
Egypt )
Image 37 The
Al-Hakim Mosque in Cairo, of
Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah , the sixth caliph, as renovated by
Dawoodi Bohra (from
Egypt )
Image 40 The
Qattara Depression in Egypt's north west (from
Egypt )
Image 41 Al-Azhar Park is listed as one of the world's sixty great public spaces by the
Project for Public Spaces . (from
Egypt )
Image 43 The preserved Temple of Horus at Edfu is a model of Egyptian architecture. (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 44 Smoke rises from oil tanks beside the
Suez Canal hit during the initial
Anglo-French assault on Egypt, 5 November 1956. (from
Egypt )
Image 45 The High Court of Justice in
Downtown Cairo (from
Egypt )
Image 46 Khafre enthroned (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 47 Model of a household porch and garden,
c. 1981–1975 BC (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 48 British infantry near
El Alamein , 17 July 1942 (from
Egypt )
Image 49 Cairo grew into a
metropolitan area with a population of over 20 million. (from
Egypt )
Image 50 The
Egyptian Museum of Cairo (from
Egypt )
Image 51 Egypt under Muhammad Ali dynasty (from
Egypt )
Image 52 A tomb relief depicts workers plowing the fields, harvesting the crops, and threshing the grain under the direction of an overseer, painting in the tomb of
Nakht . (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 53 The gods
Osiris ,
Anubis , and
Horus in the tomb of Horemheb (
KV57 ) in the Valley of the Kings (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 54 Sennedjem plows his fields in
Aaru with a pair of oxen,
Deir el-Medina . (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 55 Hieroglyphs on stela in
Louvre ,
c. 1321 BC (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 56 Kushari , one of Egypt's national dishes (from
Egypt )
Image 57 Egyptian
tomb models as funerary goods (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 59 Temple of Derr ruins in 1960 (from
Egypt )
Image 60 Egypt's population density (people per km
2 ) (from
Egypt )
Image 61 Naguib Mahfouz , the first Arabic-language writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (from
Egypt )
Image 63 Egyptian President
Gamal Abdel Nasser in Mansoura, 1960 (from
Egypt )
Image 65 Lower-class occupations (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 66 The
Narmer Palette depicts the unification of the Two Lands. (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 67 Glassmaking was a highly developed art. (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 68 Hunting game birds and plowing a field, tomb of
Nefermaat and his wife
Itet (
c. 2700 BC ) (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 69 Tourists riding a
camel in front of
Pyramid of Khafre . The
Giza Necropolis is one of Egypt's main tourist attractions. (from
Egypt )
Image 70 Muhammad Ali was the founder of the
Muhammad Ali dynasty and the first
Khedive of Egypt and Sudan. (from
Egypt )
Image 71 Female nationalists demonstrating in
Cairo , 1919 (from
Egypt )
Image 72 Aziz Pasha Abaza , poet from the aristocratic literary Egyptian family the
House of Abaza of
Circassian Abazin origin (from
Culture of Egypt )
Image 73 Egyptian tanks advancing in the Sinai desert during the
Yom Kippur War , 1973 (from
Egypt )
Image 75 Tutankhamun's burial mask is one of the major attractions of the
Egyptian Museum of Cairo. (from
Egypt )
Image 76 Hosni Mubarak — president of Egypt from 1981 to 2011 (from
Egypt )
Image 77 Frontispiece of
Description de l'Égypte , published in 38 volumes between 1809 and 1829 (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 78 Protesters from the Third Square movement, which supported neither the former Morsi government nor the Armed Forces, 31 July 2013 (from
Egypt )
Image 79 Graphic of the increase in temperature in Egypt overtime (from
Egypt )
Image 82 Rectangular fishpond with ducks and
lotus planted round with date palms and fruit trees,
Tomb of Nebamun , Thebes, 18th Dynasty (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 83 Coffin of Khnumnakht in 12th dynasty style, with palace facade, columns of inscriptions, and two Wedjat eyes (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 84 Measuring and recording the harvest, from the tomb of
Menna at
Thebes (Eighteenth Dynasty) (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 86 Statues of two pharaohs of Egypt's
Twenty-Fifth Dynasty and several other
Kushite kings,
Kerma Museum (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 87 Salah Zulfikar , film star (from
Egypt )
Image 88 A crowd at Cairo Stadium watching the
Egypt national football team (from
Egypt )
Image 89 The well preserved Temple of Isis from
Philae is an example of
Egyptian architecture and
architectural sculpture . (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 91 Painted limestone relief of a noble member of Ancient Egyptian society during the New Kingdom (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 94 The
Eastern Imperial Eagle is the national animal of Egypt. (from
Egypt )
Image 95 Hatshepsut's trading expedition to the
Land of Punt (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 96 Early tomb painting from
Nekhen ,
c. 3500 BC , Naqada, possibly Gerzeh culture (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 97 Change in per capita GDP of Egypt, 1820–2018. Figures are inflation-adjusted to 2011 International dollars. (from
Egypt )
Image 98 The
pyramids of Giza are among the most recognizable symbols of ancient Egyptian civilization. (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 99 Wooden figures of soldiers, from the tomb of nomarch
Mesehti (
11th dynasty ) (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 100 The
Giza Necropolis is the oldest of the
ancient Wonders and the only one still in existence. (from
Egypt )
Image 101 Egyptians celebrated feasts and festivals, accompanied by music and dance. (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 102 The halls of Karnak Temple are built with rows of large columns. (from
Ancient Egypt )
Ful medames Egyptian Arabic : فول مدمس , romanized: fūl midammis IPA: [fuːl meˈdammes] ful mudammas and foule mudammes , in Coptic : ⲫⲉⲗ phel or fel ), or simply fūl , is a stew of cooked fava beans served with olive oil, cumin , and optionally with chopped parsley , garlic , onion , lemon juice, chili pepper and other vegetables, herbs, and spices. Ful medames is traditionally made in and served out of a large metal jug. It is notably a staple food in Sudan and Egypt and is considered a national dish, especially in the northern cities of Cairo and Gizah . Fava beans can also sometimes be found in other cuisines in the Middle East , and Africa , though cooked differently. (Full article...
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