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阿拉伯埃及共和国地跨欧亚两洲，包括非洲东北部地区和
亚洲西南端的西奈半岛，北濒地中海，东临红海。面积100.2万平方千米。人口5831万，以阿拉伯人最多，余为
科普特人等。官方语言为阿拉伯语。伊斯兰教为国教。
首都开罗，人口1200多万，非洲最大城市。卢克索为世界
著名的古城。亚历山大和塞得港均为重要的港口城市。境
内多为沙漠、半沙漠区，地势起伏多变。红海沿岸和西奈
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The
Egyptian Museum
It would be easy to spend your entire
holiday exploring the huge range of exhibits in the
museum but if you're on a tour like we were, you've got
a couple of hours. Fortunately our guide, Ola, picked
out the highlights for us. A must, of course, is the
Tutankhamun collection. It's difficult to believe that
it was possible to pack all the stuff on display into a
tomb, Tutankhamun was obviously not taking any chances
of being without something in the after life. You also
get the impression that they definitely didn't want him
to get out, buried as he was in a gold coffin inside a
gold plated wooden coffin, inside a stone coffin, inside
a box, inside a bigger box... well, if you go there
you'll see what I mean. There is some controversy about
the death mask, was it to hide the damage caused by the
high priest hitting him on the head with a heavy object?
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Hanging Church El Moallaqah
This church gets its name not from the
gallows but from the way the church was built on the
foundations of two Roman towers, with its centre section
hanging between them. The church's foundations date from
the seventh century although there may have been a
church on the site three hundred years earlier. Make
sure you have a look at the foundations through the
glass floor panel and admire the bat colony.
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The
Citadel and the Mosque of Mohammed Ali
This impressive structure was built in
the thirteenth century to keep out the infidels (i.e.
us) although the mosque was only built in the nineteenth
century. In the forecourt to the mosque is a clock tower
presented by the French government in return for the
obelisk that now stands on the Champs Elysee. It has
never worked since arriving in Egypt, what can I say...
The Mosque itself is an impressive structure with its
entire interior clad in alabaster. The dome is
particularly impressive.
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Location:
Suhag
Situated on the West Bank of the Nile,
12 km south-east of Al-Ballyana, it was the chief center
for worshipping the god Osiris. It is famous for its
cemeteries and tombs discovered in 1895, attributed to
the kings of the first two dynasties.
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El Hossein Sq., Cairo, Egypt Location: Cairo
The first Fatimid mosque and the
oldest Islamic University in the world, it was founded
in Midan Hussein by Gawhar al-Sikilli in 971 AD (361 H)
as both a mosque and Madrasah ( school) , after Fatma
al-Zahraa, the daughter of the Prophet Mohammed. It is
considered to be the oldest Islamic University, the
first lecture having been delivered in 975 AD.
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The
Colossi of Memnon
Two 60 foot statues that have
outlasted the temple that they were built for by 3000
years. These statues have been tourist attractions since
ancient Greek and Roman times, and were famous for the
whistling noise that they made at sunrise. Unfortunately
in the first century AD, somebody decided to repair them
and they have been silent ever since.
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