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Tourism is one of the most important sources of national income in Egypt, and
the Egyptian people are used to the presence of tourists in their midst
since ancient times.Egypt
is characterized by an abundance of tourist attractions of all kinds,
because of the abundance of temples and Pharaonic monuments that have
been cared for and invested tourist attraction, and tourism
infrastructure, which includes five-star hotels and tourist villages,
tourism and aviation company offices are available, and is considered a
tourist congestion in general in
Cairo and Alexandria and the Red Sea Governorate, Hurghada and the
Sinai and especially South Sinai in Sharm el-Sheikh, Dahab and Nuweiba,
where sports sport diving, which attracts tourists from around the world
and in particular from Germany and Italy a fan of this kind of sports,
where that Egypt is characterized Ali Alalhaab rare coral in the Red Sea and fish species for which they
are held festivals and competitions fishing yacht, which comes to
fishing enthusiasts of Egyptians and foreigners.Important tourist attractions in the Greater Cairo:
- Giza Pyramids
The Pyramids are located in Giza governorate (Giza Plateau) ,the West Bank of the Nile River was built by about 25
centuries BC, approximately from 2480 to 2550 BC. M, which is about three pyramids are Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure.
And
the pyramids is a graves ownership each of which holds the name of the
king who built and buried it after his death, and construction pyramid
here is the stage of the evolution of the tombs architecture in ancient
Egypt, which began as a small hole turned into a compartment under the
ground and then to several rooms topped by a terrace and then evolved
to take the form of pyramid by architect Aamahotb Minister pharaoh
Zoser in the Third Dynasty pyramid exists in the cemetery of Saqqara,
was followed by two attempts of the king Bent founder of the Fourth
Dynasty to build a pyramid full but the pyramids appeared non Salimi
shape and are located in Dahshur, one oblate-Qaeda and the other took
the form smaller after half the size, and was able to engineer Hmeono King Khufu engineer to
reach the pyramidal shape and perfect the construction of the pyramid of
Cheops in Giza, on an area of 13 acres and was followed by a pyramid
of Khafre and Menkaure.
- Egyptian museum
Egyptian Museum in Cairo. It
contains the largest collection of ancient Egyptian antiquities, though
Navsh the British Museum, the Louvre and the Metropolitan Museum (New
York). And sits Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square in the heart of Cairo since
1906, the museum exhibition contains 136 thousand Pharaonic impact, in
addition to the hundreds of thousands of effects found in stores.Divided according to their importance or implications amount provided
Kalksm sixth and seventh, while the second arrangements, III and IV were
based on the chronological order and taken into account included the
most important relics in the department and other key periods in another
department, and as follows: Section I: effects of King Tutankhamun which is the outcome of the discovery of the tomb of one period of time effects amounted to one in which more than 3,500 relics of gold in addition to the mummies.
Section II: the old state which is one of the prosperous periods in the history of ancient Egypt, a period of building the pyramids and the period of King Khufu, a period in which the four families governor "the rule of the third sixth."
Section III: Central State.
Section IV: the modern state, a period of great empire period of Ramses II and Tutankhamun and Akhenaten and Merneptah and Tuthmosis
Section V: the family of "21 to 30" all the way to any entry of Alexander the Great to Egypt.
Section VI: Department of papyrus currency, which brought together all the papyri.
Section VII: "scarabs" section.
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