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  • Al-Hakim be Aamr Ellah Mosque

    Mosque of al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah

    Al-Hakim Amr Allah Mosque, located on Al-Moez Street in Old Cairo, is a prominent Fatimid landmark and the fourth oldest surviving mosque in Egypt. Built in 380 AH during Al-Aziz Billah's reign, it was completed by his son in 403 AH (1012-1013 AD), making it the second largest mosque in Cairo after Ahmed Ibn Tulun Mosque. The mosque's name was attributed to him. The mosque, measuring 12005 meters in length and 113 meters in width, has two minarets at its sea front, surrounded by pyramid-shaped bases. The upper cubes are slightly backwards, and an octagonal minaret protrudes from each of the upper cubes.

  • Visit Queen Nefertari’s Tomb

    Tomb of Queen Nefertari

    There were also the great queens of the New Kingdom (1550-1090 BC) Nefertiti, the wife of Akhenaten (1371-1355 BC), and Nefertari, one of the celebrated eight wives of Ramses II (c. 1279-c. 1213 BC). While Nefertiti is more popular for the exquisite portrait bust of her that is located in Berlin, Nefertari is famous mostly for her large burial site situated in the Valley of the Queens.

  • tomb of Tutankhamun | Tutankhamun tomb discovery | king tut tomb pictures

    Tomb of Tutankhamun

    The Valley of the Kings, located on the Nile River's west bank near Thebes, served as a cemetery for pharaohs during the New Kingdom of Ancient Egyptians from 1539 to 1075 BC. The 20,000 square meter rocky valley houses 27 royal tombs from the 18th, 19th, and 20th Egyptian dynasties, which have been discovered to this day. Pharaoh Tutankhamun, also known as King Tut, was the last Eighteenth Dynasty Pharaoh from 1334 to 1325 B.C. He is famous for his intact tomb and treasures, unmarked grave, and premature death due to broken bones. His minister married his widow after his death.

  • the Virgin Mary’s tree.

    The Tree of Virgin Mary in Matareya

    The Coptic Orthodox Church commemorates the Feast of the Entry of the Holy Family into Egypt, a minor liturgical feast. It commemorates St. Joseph the Carpenter's obedience to an angel's command to take the child and his mother to Egypt, marking the entry of the Holy Family into the land of Egypt. The prayers begin on the eve of the liturgical day. The Maryam Tree Mazar, a significant tourist attraction in Egypt, is home to the Holy Family and has undergone significant development and renovations to maintain its historical significance.

  • Biography of Ahmad ibn Tulun

    Biography of Ahmad ibn Tulun

    Ahmad ibn Tulun's Turkish roots trace back to his father, who was a slave of Noah ibn Asad, the governor of Bukhara. Asad freed him, and Caliph Al-Ma'mun admired him. He was enrolled in the caliphate court and eventually became the head of the caliph's guard. Ahmad bin Tulun, born on September 20, 835 AD, in Baghdad, the capital of the caliphate, was well-cared for by his father, who taught him military arts, jurisprudence, hadith, and hadith, and encouraged him to learn from scholars and read the Qur'an.

  • Al Qusayr, Egypt | Al Quseir history

    Historical Background | Quseir Town

    The city of Al-Qusair is located on the western shore of the Red Sea in Egypt, 140 km south of Hurghada, and one of the most important villages of the city is Hamrawin village, with an area of 7,636 km², while its population is 50,023 people. Al-Qusayr, named after a fort that protected the nation during ancient Pharaonic, Roman, and other empires, was a hub for gold procurement by Pharaohs. Built by Sultan Selim I during the Ottoman period, the fortress remains intact.

The Rosetta Stone

Facts about The Rosetta Stone | Discovery of Ancient Egypt Language

  • 05 16, 2023

The Rosetta Stone: Key to Ancient Egypt

The work of the French in Egypt Central, one of which included the French manager’s discovery of the Rosetta Stone, remains unparalleled. The Rosetta Stone was discovered on July 19, 1799 AD, and credited to Pierre-Francois Bouchard, the officer of France situated in Egypt. Along with demotic text, it features ancient Greek.

The history of the Rosetta Stone and how it has come about takes its origin from the year 1798 when Bonaparte made a French expedition. The campaign moved on through Rashid city where the Pierre-François Bouchard research precision of the basalt stone was done in 1799 AD.

One such item that came into the limelight after the war is the Rosetta Stone which became a hot topic of different publications to the campaign soldiers is a Historical Center piece. The stone is named after the city of Rosetta which stood at a delta of the Nile where the stone was found owing to the circumstances of where the stone was discovered.

The Stone of Rashid is a granodiorite stone monument with a decree issued in Memphis, Egypt, in 196 BC on behalf of King Ptolemy V. The decree appears in three different texts: the lower part is Ancient Greek, the middle part is Demotic text, and the upper text is Egyptian hieroglyphics. Since the decree essentially presents the same text in each text "with some minor differences between them," it is considered the key to our current understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphics.

For a long time, humanity has been obfuscated by the stone until one day, in the year of 1822 a French scientist by the name of Jean-François Champollion, an administrator in the department of Egyptian antiquities in the Louvre Museum, proclaimed, that he had conquered the writing that had stooped many people, for he had made a discovery of occurrences in the writing around certain characters embedded in such writing known as hieroglyphics and these are named cartouches and bear the names of different kings and queens and was fortunate to come across these names in a Greek language with the name Ptolemy and Cleopatra and carried the power to unlock the past deciphering the hieroglyphics.

Then again, the items inscribed on the stone can be referred to as a thank you and appreciation paid off by a group of priests from a city of Manaf to King Ptolemy V for the reason that he lifted a fee for the temples. This was recorded in 196BC.

The hieroglyphic language was used because the priests at the time still used it, and the common people used the Demotic language, to ensure that both the king and the general public could understand the stone, it was inscribed in all three languages.

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The Rosetta Stone is of immense significance in the discovery of the Ancient Egyptian language because it contains inscriptions in three scripts: Ancient Greek, Demotic, and hieroglyphics. This trilingual inscription provided a key to deciphering hieroglyphs and understanding the language and culture of ancient Egypt. It enabled scholars, notably Jean-François Champollion, to unlock the mysteries of hieroglyphic writing.

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