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Prince Mohamed Aly Palace
27/09/2024

Prince Mohamed Aly Palace

💢 Like today, June 27, 1967.. the installation of the first automatic teller machine in the world..💰 They are iron drawe...
27/06/2022

💢 Like today, June 27, 1967.. the installation of the first automatic teller machine in the world..

💰 They are iron drawers installed in the walls of the external bank on the street, because if you want to deposit money in your account at night or on a holiday and the bank is closed!! ..
💰 As a bank customer, you will be given a copy of the treasury key.. you go to open the safe and the money will be in an envelope in which a special amount is shown in the account.. and you throw the envelope inside the treasury drawer.. the envelope falls into a deep barrel between the walls and goes until it reaches a safe inside the bank. .
💰 He pays by putting it in your account..

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الصفحة الرسمية لموقع الملك فاروق الاول - فاروق مصر

A mother with her children, 1,800 years ago. Alexandria, Roman Egypt.
12/04/2022

A mother with her children, 1,800 years ago. Alexandria, Roman Egypt.

Mirror with a Handle in the Shape of a Young Womanca. 1550–1391 B.C. New Kingdom Dynasty 18 From Egypt Medium: Bronze...
25/01/2022

Mirror with a Handle in the Shape of a Young Woman
ca. 1550–1391 B.C. New Kingdom Dynasty 18 From Egypt
Medium: Bronze or copper alloy
Metropolitan Museum of Art.

tea booth ☕• Located in the gardens of the Montazah neighborhood in Alexandria.• The place was a resting place for King ...
10/12/2021

tea booth ☕
• Located in the gardens of the Montazah neighborhood in Alexandria.
• The place was a resting place for King Farouk to drink tea and talk about state affairs with his employees.
• It is located on the top of an island with an area of ​​4 acres, and in the north of it there are a group of lakes for fish farming.
The building overlooked the garden and the Mediterranean coast from all sides except the western ones.
• The kiosk was built during the reign of King Farouk I in 1936.
• It is a one-story rectangular building built of red bricks and cement, and the kiosk takes the Greco-Roman shape
• It has 4 facades, the main entrance is in the southern facade, and it is preceded by 4 marble statues.
• In the middle of the building is an open courtyard with a marble fountain surrounded by marble statues of women in different positions in the four seasons.
• The kiosk's surroundings are movable antiques, including 10 statues, distributed throughout the building.

The Temple Of Medinet Habu📸Beshoy Nagib
10/12/2021

The Temple Of Medinet Habu
📸Beshoy Nagib

Golden Uraeus of King Senusret II. This Uraeus was discovered by Flinders Petrie in 1920 during his work at the pyramid ...
12/11/2021

Golden Uraeus of King Senusret II. This Uraeus was discovered by Flinders Petrie in 1920 during his work at the pyramid of the Pharaoh at Lahun. 12th dynasty, ca 1882 BCE. Middle Kingdom. Egyptian museum, Cairo.

Eliyahu Hanabi Temple:One of the oldest temples in Alexandria is the Temple of Eliyahu Hanabi built for the first time i...
07/11/2021

Eliyahu Hanabi Temple:
One of the oldest temples in Alexandria is the Temple of Eliyahu Hanabi built for the first time in 1354 AD, and an ancient text of the Holy Scriptures from the Torah attributed to Ezra the scribe was preserved there. This temple is attributed to the prophet Eliyahu Hanabi, one of the prophets of the Children of Israel in the eighth century B.C. The Jews believe, according to the Old Testament, that he will come in the future, heralding the exodus of Gog and Magog, the people known to the three religions. on his way.
But it fell during the French campaign against Egypt led by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1798. The temple remained in ruins until 1850, when it was rebuilt during the reign of Khedive Ismail, then ruler of Egypt. Then it was demolished and rebuilt in 1881 AD, meaning that it dates back to the late nineteenth century.
The temple is one of the largest in the region and is designed in the basilica style. The main entrance is located on the western facade and is topped with a six-pointed star and inscriptions in Hebrew. The temple consists of two floors: the first floor is the men’s prayer room, and the second is the women’s prayer room.
The synagogue includes rows of wooden benches that can accommodate 700 people, as well as marble boxes dedicated to collecting donations for Jews from the poor and sick, and above the sarcophagus there are silver lamps designed in ancient styles. There is also a central library containing 50 old copies of the Torah.
In a back room there is what is known as the Elias chair, or the chair of the Prophet Eliyahu, which was used in antiquity to practice the rite of circumcision, which is a major rite of Judaism.

Al Aqmar Mosque:It was established by the Fatimid Caliph Al-Amir Bi Ahkam Allah in the year 519 AH - 1125 AD.- The mosqu...
07/11/2021

Al Aqmar Mosque:
It was established by the Fatimid Caliph Al-Amir Bi Ahkam Allah in the year 519 AH - 1125 AD.
- The mosque is located to the right of the traveler to Al-Muizz Li-Din Allah Street, near Burjuan Alley and Al-Silhdar Mosque.
The Caliph ordered his vizier Al-Mamoun Ibn Abdullah to build a mosque in this area, which was the place of the foragers.
- It is a small mosque designed in proportion to the layout of the street that overlooks it, and therefore we find its outer edges are irregular.
The western facade of the mosque has many types of plant, geometric and epigraphic decorations. Its length is 20 m and its height is 12 m. It is made of polished stone and is divided into three main sections.
- The south of it was hidden behind a house that was expropriated, recently demolished and rebuilt in the style of the northern section.
- The northern one is adorned with a deaf rectangular entrance.
- The middle is prominent at the walls, and it consists of three sections, the entrance is located in the middle section of them.
It is decorated with the name of Muhammad and Ali and Quranic verses in Kufic script.
From the inside, the mosque is rectangular in shape, with a middle open courtyard, surrounded by four galleries, each of which overlooks the courtyard by means of a three-arched arcade.
The Qibla portico is the largest portico of the mosque.
- The mihrab is surmounted by a marble plaque recording the works of Prince Al-Salmi in the mosque.
To the right of the mihrab is the wooden minbar.
This mosque has witnessed many renovations and additions.

Moez Street:It is one of the areas most visited by tourists. It is an open museum of Islamic antiquities, and there are ...
31/10/2021

Moez Street:
It is one of the areas most visited by tourists. It is an open museum of Islamic antiquities, and there are more than 29 antiquities of Islamic Egypt.
- It dates back to the era of Caliph Al-Muizz li-Din Allah, and the most important monuments that the Caliph built in it is Al-Mu’izz Palace, which Al-Mu’izz had built to be the seat of his caliphate in Egypt, and which has now taken its place, Khan Al-Khalili and Al-Hussein Mosque. In our article, we will get acquainted with that palace.
The street extends from the walls of Old Cairo, specifically Bab Al-Futuh in the north, to Bab Zuwaila in the south.
There are many monuments in Al-Moez Street, including religious, residential, commercial and defensive monuments.
Al-Mu'izz Palace
It has been called:
The comforter's palace, the eastern palace, or the grand palace
Palace building:
Jawhar al-Siqilli laid the foundation of this palace on the day that the foundation of the city of Cairo was laid on Wednesday, 18th of Sha’ban 358 AH. This palace.
The importance of the palace:
This palace was the seat of the Caliph, and he used to reside there and sit in it to rule in a council known as the “King’s Council.” This palace contained many government offices and arms houses, and it was provided with water and many tunnels.
Features :
This palace was distinguished by its luxury, until Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi, when he eliminated the Fatimid state, took over that palace.
That palace continued to be the seat of the caliphate since al-Mu’izz li-Din Allah resided there on the seventh of Ramadan 362 AH until the state came to an end in 567 AH, and it was the home of the Caliphs of the Fatimid state.
It is also distinguished by the large number of its doors, and their number is nine, and they are:
Gate of Gold, Gate of Eid, Gate of Emerald, Gate of Qasr al-Shok, Gate of Zhouma, Gate of Torbat al-Saffron, Gate of Daylam, Gate of the Wind, Gate of the Sea.
Lockers in the palace:
The cupboards of books, drinks, weapons, clothes, and mattresses, and they were on the eastern side of Al-Mu'izz Cairo.
Al-Muizz was elegant in establishing this palace with luxurious feathers and all that the caliphs and princes needed.
It is located in front of this palace, the palace that Al-Aziz built and was smaller than him, so it was known as the Small Palace. It was built in its place, the Great Maristan Al-Mansouri, and some of it is still known today as Souk Al-Nahhasin, and next to it to the north is the field, the Al-Kafuri orchard, and the old guest house. Between these two palaces was a space that could accommodate ten thousand knights. It later between the two palaces.

Good morning
31/10/2021

Good morning

Rows of Sphinxescirca 1950: Two rows of ram-headed sphinxes in the temple of Luxor and Karnak near Thebes.
30/10/2021

Rows of Sphinxes
circa 1950: Two rows of ram-headed sphinxes in the temple of Luxor and Karnak near Thebes.

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