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I 'borrowed' this post of Hepzi's from L4U because I think the pictures are beautiful and worth sharing here.
I've just come across this net page and thought I'd share as there are some wonderful...
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I've only just seen this post! Thanks for taking the time to post the photos, Grandad, - even if you did pinch them from Hepzi! :D I see what you mean about the size of their hands and feet though....
I haven't really been following it too closely but any theories on what is behind the wall in King Tut's tomb? I've been reading bits and pieces on it and we might have even already discussed it on...
I'm not an Egyptologist by any stretch but I do enjoy all the Nat Geo documentaries re: Ancient Egypt and really enjoyed visiting VOK and seeing everything related to the Boy King in Cairo Museum....
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Mmmm - maybe. When I've been way up north and wandering about in the super remote there is also a feeling of spooky primitive eeriness that comes in that isn't quite with the feeling of being amongst...
Just came across this news article indicating the Great Pyramid in Giza has heat spots found by scientists using thermal topography whereby some of the stones are recording higher temperatures than...
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I read a couple other articles after this one and true they don't tell us much other than to speculate what, if anything, might be behind these couple of stones.
Report: Egypt among 11 countries most likely to see political violence in 2015.
Egypt is among eleven countries in the Middle East most likely to see political violence In 2015, according to the...
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Just catching up on unread posts and this seemed particularly relevant thinking of events this week in Sydney and in Pakistan.
I think the piece is too narrow in predicting political violence in just...
Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, his interior minister Habib El-Adly and his top aides were all found not guilty of killing protesters in the January 2011 uprising.
Mubarak and his two sons...
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There is a phrase - the higher you are the further you fall - (something like that) however I rather think not in this case however I guess it depends on what one measures.
National Alliance to Support Legitimacy calls for 'million man protest' in Tahrir.
The Muslim Brotherhood-led National Alliance to Support Legitimacy (NASL) has called for protests all over Egypt's...
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They're probably all watching what is happening in Ferguson. A police shoots a robber and NOW all police are required to take extra courses and classes and do all this other additional stuff. Great...
All shades of Ra: Fair Trade Egypt takes traditional handicrafts to a new level.
Fair Trade Egypt has helped over 2,600 artisans expand their businesses and learn new skills.
Genuine artistry and...
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Ahh - good and going now :up
What I was saying in my disappeared post is that when I was in Luxor I bought very little - can't actually think of anything right now. I did buy 2 painted pictures in...
On a Saturday afternoon in downtown Cairo, the centrally located Bab Al-Louq public restroom is empty. Its three urinals, three stalls, and deafening silence are in stark contrast to the bustle of...
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We have the same problem here with public toilets - they get vandalized, thrashed and trashed but most seriously they become havens for druggies to shoot up (Unless they're regularly rigorously...
As the back to school season arrives it brings with it the stress felt by parents sandwiched between expensive tuition fees paid for the education of their children and grandparents who nostalgically...
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Dead gone, last nail in the coffin, fat lady sang, train left the station ....... yup respect for elders is gone. Respect for many things are gone and I'm really not too sure it will come back. Kids...
Democracy Index report: 30 bombings across Egypt in September.
Egypt witnessed 138 incidents of violence and political terrorism in September that led to the death of about 25 people and the injury...
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Between IS, Ebola, Kim Un and Hong Kong there isn't enough space left in the hour newscast to fit in what is happening in Egypt and, here what is happening in Egypt definitely isn't making the...
Dozens protest at Cairo's Gezira Club over mass killing of cats.
Dozens of protesters gathered on Tuesday afternoon in front of Cairo's Gezira Club to object the mass poisoning of cats at the...
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I don't believe at all in cruelty to animals however re: cats I do wonder if this same group that is protesting collects funds to spay and neuter feral cats?
New airport city to create 120,000 jobs, at LE80 billion cost.
Egypt's government plans to build an airport city around Cairo's international airport at a cost of LE80 billion, said Mahmoud Essmat,...
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The dates seem very short. Panama has been building a new canal and while I haven't been specifically following this I'd gues-timate I've been hearing about the NEW Panama Canal and construction for...
Egypt's population will hit 87 million tomorrow (Tuesday 18th Aug 2014), up 2 million year-on-year and 1 million in the last six months, the country's census authority announced.
The Central Agency...
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I was going to say exactly the same Horus. Keefy, on the Blue, made another post about sweeping educational reforms being introduced in Egypt and I was thinking the topic of birth control or family...
(Reuters) - Egypt said on Tuesday it plans to build a new Suez Canal alongside the existing 145-year-old historic waterway in a multi-billion dollar project to expand trade along the fastest shipping...
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I don't have exact dates but am sure Panama has been working on the new Panama Canal for at least the past five years if not longer. I'd guess-timate the completion of this new canal in approximately...
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