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• Graeco Roman Museum in Alexandria

  The Greco-Roman Museum is one of the oldest museums in the world, and the idea of establishing it dates back to the Italian archaeologist Giuseppe Botti (1891), who proposed that a place be set aside to preserve the archaeological discoveries in Alexandria. The current museum was built by German engineer Dertisch and Dutch engineer Leon Stenon, in the style of Greek buildings, and opened for the first time during the reign of Khedive Abbas Hilmi II.

• History of Ras El Tin Palace in Alexandria

  Ras al-Tin Palace is one of the historical and archaeological landmarks in Alexandria, and it is the only palace that witnessed and contemporary with the establishment of the Muhammad Ali Pasha dynasty in Egypt, which lasted about one hundred and fifty years, and that palace witnessed the transition of Egypt from one era to another and from the monarchy to the Republic.

• Tomb of Ra Moza in Luxor | Tombs of The Nobles Luxor

  The pharaonic royalty is the exclusive focus of nearly all we see of ancient Egypt today. Because of their enormous scale and the fact that they are actually cut out of stone, the gigantic architectural projects that the Egyptian pharaoh commissioned throughout the civilization's history have fared far better over time than other ancient relics.

• Khedive Muhammad Tawfiq

  He was born in 1852, and his father enrolled him in the Manial School at the age of nine, where he studied language, geography, history, natural sciences, mathematics, Arabic, Turkish, French, and English. He was inclined to science from a young age and achieved a side of it that qualified him to preside over the private council during his father's lifetime at the age of 19. He then held the Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Works, and the presidency of the Council of Nazirs.

• History of the Beheira Governorate

  Beheira Governorate is situated in the extreme north of Egypt towards the western part of the Nile Delta with Damanhour as its administrative capital. Among other regions of Egypt, Beheira is believed to be the first region when it comes to surface area of arable land available. This governorate is home to a number of attractions which enhance the scope of tourism development, for example the Rashid area.

• City of Alexandria | Alexandria History

  The history of Egypt will tell us that the last great pharaoh was Ptolemy I Sotir (305-285 B.C. ), who ruled over a state, which he named after himself, the Ptolemaic State (332–30 B.C.). Alexandria, established in this era, served as the most prominent and the largest city in the eastern Mediterranean till the rise of Constantinople in Fifth Century AD.