The second largest city in Egypt is a Alexandria City with a population of 6 million. It is located on the Mediterranean coast on the western edge of the Nile Delta. It's hard to beat Cairo when it comes to historical buildings and monuments, but Alexandria may be one of the few cities in the...Read More
Choosing a good place to build a pyramid was the first step. This had to be on the western side of the Nile because the sun set in the west and this was where the dead were believed to go when they died. When the Nile flooded, the pyramids had to be built on higher...Read More
The Unfinished Obelisk is one of the most famous monoliths in Aswan. It is certainly the largest obelisk ever built, but it was never finished. It gives us a chance to learn more about how Hatshepsut was able to build such huge things in ancient Egypt and the New Kingdom of Egypt.Read More
At the height of the Egyptian New Kingdom, Egypt's capital, Thebes (now called Luxor), was home to more than a million wealthy pharaohs who ruled this kingdom through military victories and extended their power south into Nubia, west along the Mediterranean, and east into what Now known as Syria. With all that money and labor,...Read More
At the end of the 12th century, Saladin built the Citadel as he was a well-known king and military leader who started the Ayyubid dynasty. Many important events in Egyptian history took place in the castle.Read More
