Heritage, History & Discovery

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On July 19, 1799, the Rosetta Stone unlocked the language of the pharaohs. For 14,000 years, no one had been able to read Egyptian hieroglyphs until Napoleon's army stumbled upon a clue: a 4x2 tablet with three languages inscribed on it. One of the languages on the tablet was ...

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The Sun Festival at Abu Simbel Temple that nestles in darkness all-round the year. The temple is angled in such a way that only twice a year, on the birth anniversary (22^nd of February) and coronation of emperor Ramses II (22^nd of October), at the break of dawn, natural sunlight streams into the complex and throws light ...

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On August 12, 30 B.C., the Egyptian queen Cleopatra took her own life inside a mausoleum in Alexandria. During more than two decades as Egypt’s last independent pharaoh, she engaged in ruthless power struggles with her ...

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The Feast of Neyrouz marks the first day of the Coptic Calendar known as the Year of the Martyrs "ANO MARTYRUM, A.M." Its celebration falls on the 1st day of the month named Tut, the first month of the ...