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Image 2 A typical
Naqada II jar decorated with gazelles (Predynastic Period) (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 3 British infantry near
El Alamein , 17 July 1942 (from
Egypt )
Image 4 Seagoing ship of an expedition to Punt, from a relief of
Hatshepsut's Mortuary temple , Deir el-Bahari (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 5
Sennedjem plows his fields in
Aaru with a pair of oxen,
Deir el-Medina . (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 6
Smart Village , a business district established in 2001 to facilitate the growth of high-tech businesses (from
Egypt )
Image 7 Hieroglyphs on stela in
Louvre ,
c. 1321 BC (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 8
Arabic calligraphy has seen its golden age in
Cairo . This adornment and beads being sold in
Muizz Street (from
Culture of Egypt )
Image 9 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 10 Egyptian tanks advancing in the Sinai desert during the
Yom Kippur War , 1973 (from
Egypt )
Image 11 The Cairo Metro (line 2) (from
Egypt )
Image 12 The well preserved Temple of Isis from
Philae is an example of
Egyptian architecture and
architectural sculpture . (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 13 An offshore platform in the Darfeel Gas Field (from
Egypt )
Image 14 Green irrigated land along the Nile amidst the desert and in the delta (from
Egypt )
Image 15 Egypt under Muhammad Ali dynasty (from
Egypt )
Image 16 Napoleon defeated the
Mamluk troops in the
Battle of the Pyramids , 21 July 1798, painted by
Lejeune . (from
Egypt )
Image 17
Cairo grew into a
metropolitan area with a population of over 20 million. (from
Egypt )
Image 18
Anubis , the god associated with mummification and burial rituals, attending to a mummy (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 19 Female nationalists demonstrating in
Cairo , 1919 (from
Egypt )
Image 20 President el-Sisi with US President
Joe Biden , 11 November 2022 (from
Egypt )
Image 21 Glassmaking was a highly developed art. (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 22 The
Al-Hakim Mosque in Cairo, of
Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah , the sixth caliph, as renovated by
Dawoodi Bohra (from
Egypt )
Image 23 Women in Cairo wear face masks during the
COVID-19 pandemic in Egypt in March 2020. (from
Egypt )
Image 24 Four colossal statues of
Ramesses II flank the entrance of his temple
Abu Simbel . (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 25 The
Amr ibn al-As mosque in Cairo, recognised as the oldest in Africa (from
Egypt )
Image 26 Egyptians celebrated feasts and festivals, accompanied by music and dance. (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 28
Salah Zulfikar , film star (from
Egypt )
Image 29 The
Book of the Dead was a guide to the deceased's journey in the afterlife. (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 30 Measuring and recording the harvest, from the tomb of
Menna at
Thebes (Eighteenth Dynasty) (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 31 Lower-class occupations (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 32
Al-Azhar Park is listed as one of the world's sixty great public spaces by the
Project for Public Spaces . (from
Egypt )
Image 33
Hosni Mubarak — president of Egypt from 1981 to 2011 (from
Egypt )
Image 34 The halls of Karnak Temple are built with rows of large columns. (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 35 Egyptian
tomb models as funerary goods (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 38 Egypt is the eighth most water stressed country in the world. (from
Egypt )
Image 40 Smoke rises from oil tanks beside the
Suez Canal hit during the initial
Anglo-French assault on Egypt, 5 November 1956. (from
Egypt )
Image 41 The Ptolemaic Queen
Cleopatra VII and her son by Julius Caesar,
Caesarion , at the
Temple of Dendera (from
Egypt )
Image 42 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 43 Coffin of Khnumnakht in 12th dynasty style, with palace facade, columns of inscriptions, and two Wedjat eyes (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 44 The
Egyptian Museum of Cairo (from
Egypt )
Image 45 The
pyramids of Giza are among the most recognizable symbols of ancient Egyptian civilization. (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 46 Painted limestone relief of a noble member of Ancient Egyptian society during the New Kingdom (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 47 The
Suez Canal (from
Egypt )
Image 48 The pharaoh was usually depicted wearing symbols of royalty and power. (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 50 The Weighing of the Heart from the
Book of the Dead of Ani (from
Egypt )
Image 51 Model of a household porch and garden,
c. 1981–1975 BC (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 52 Ancient Egyptians playing music (from
Egypt )
Image 53
Frontispiece of
Description de l'Égypte , published in 38 volumes between 1809 and 1829 (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 55 Hunting game birds and plowing a field, tomb of
Nefermaat and his wife
Itet (
c. 2700 BC ) (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 56 The High Court of Justice in
Downtown Cairo (from
Egypt )
Image 57 Change in per capita GDP of Egypt, 1820–2018. Figures are inflation-adjusted to 2011 International dollars. (from
Egypt )
Image 58 The
Narmer Palette depicts the unification of the Two Lands. (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 59 Prominent Egyptian dissident
Alaa Abd El-Fattah was sentenced to five years of imprisonment in December 2021. (from
Egypt )
Image 61
Naguib Mahfouz , the first Arabic-language writer to win the
Nobel Prize in Literature (from
Egypt )
Image 62
Kushari , one of Egypt's national dishes (from
Egypt )
Image 63
Soad Hosny , film star (from
Egypt )
Image 64 Rectangular fishpond with ducks and
lotus planted round with date palms and fruit trees,
Tomb of Nebamun , Thebes, 18th Dynasty (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 65 Tutankhamun charging enemies on his
chariot , 18th dynasty (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 66 Menna and Family Hunting in the Marshes, Tomb of Menna,
c. 1400 BC (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 67 Ruins of Deir el-Medina (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 68 The
Qattara Depression in Egypt's north west (from
Egypt )
Image 69 Statues of two pharaohs of Egypt's
Twenty-Fifth Dynasty and several other
Kushite kings,
Kerma Museum (from
Ancient 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
Temple of Derr ruins in 1960 (from
Egypt )
Image 72 The
Edwin Smith surgical papyrus describes anatomy and medical treatments, written in
hieratic ,
c. 1550 BC . (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 73 Tutankhamun's burial mask is one of the major attractions of the
Egyptian Museum of Cairo. (from
Egypt )
Image 76 The gods
Osiris ,
Anubis , and
Horus in the tomb of Horemheb (
KV57 ) in the Valley of the Kings (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 77 A crowd at Cairo Stadium watching the
Egypt national football team (from
Egypt )
Image 78 The "weighing of the heart" scene from the
Book of the Dead (from
Egypt )
Image 79
Khafre enthroned (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 80 The
Fayum mummy portraits epitomize the meeting of Egyptian and Roman cultures. (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 81 The
Temple of Dendur , completed by 10 BC,
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City) (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 82 The
Giza Necropolis is the oldest of the
ancient Wonders and the only one still in existence. (from
Egypt )
Image 83 Hatshepsut's trading expedition to the
Land of Punt (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 85 Tourists riding an
Arabian camel in front of
Pyramid of Khafre . The
Giza Necropolis is one of Egypt's main tourist attractions. (from
Egypt )
Image 86 Pharaohs' tombs were provided with vast quantities of wealth, such as the
golden mask from the mummy of Tutankhamun . (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 88 The
Rosetta Stone (
c. 196 BC) enabled linguists to begin
deciphering ancient Egyptian scripts . (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 89 Egyptian literacy rate among the population aged 15 years and older by UNESCO Institute of Statistics (from
Egypt )
Image 91 Egypt's topography (from
Egypt )
Image 92 Egypt's population density (people per km
2 ) (from
Egypt )
Image 93 The preserved Temple of Horus at Edfu is a model of Egyptian architecture. (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 94 Protesters from the Third Square movement, which supported neither the former Morsi government nor the Armed Forces, 31 July 2013 (from
Egypt )
Image 95 Wooden figures of soldiers, from the tomb of nomarch
Mesehti (
11th dynasty ) (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 96 Egyptian President
Gamal Abdel Nasser in Mansoura, 1960 (from
Egypt )
Image 97 Egyptian honour guard soldiers during a visit of U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen (from
Egypt )
Image 99 Early tomb painting from
Nekhen ,
c. 3500 BC , Naqada, possibly Gerzeh culture (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 100 Illustration of various types of capitals, by
Karl Richard Lepsius (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 102 The
Eastern Imperial Eagle is the national animal of Egypt. (from
Egypt )
Image 103
Tanoura dancers performing in Wekalet El Ghoury, Cairo (from
Egypt )