in Africa.
Egypt has one of the longest histories of any country, tracing its heritage along the
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Egypt is considered to be a regional power in North Africa , the Middle East and the Muslim world , and a middle power worldwide. It is a developing country having a diversified economy, which is the largest in Africa , the 38th-largest economy by nominal GDP and 127th by nominal GDP per capita. Egypt is a founding member of the United Nations , the Non-Aligned Movement , the Arab League , the African Union , Organisation of Islamic Cooperation , World Youth Forum , and a member of BRICS . (Full article...
The following are images from various Egypt-related articles on Wikipedia.
Image 1 Egyptian tanks advancing in the Sinai desert during the
Yom Kippur War , 1973 (from
Egypt )
Image 3 Frontispiece of
Description de l'Égypte , published in 38 volumes between 1809 and 1829. (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 4 Smoke rises from oil tanks beside the
Suez Canal hit during the initial
Anglo-French assault on Egypt, 5 November 1956. (from
Egypt )
Image 5 Anubis , the god associated with mummification and burial rituals, attending to a mummy. (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 6 Ancient Egyptians playing music (from
Egypt )
Image 7 Illustration of various types of capitals, by
Karl Richard Lepsius (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 8 Hosni Mubarak was the president of Egypt from 1981 until his overthrew in 2011 (from
Egypt )
Image 9 Seagoing ship of an expedition to Punt, from a relief of
Hatshepsut's Mortuary temple , Deir el-Bahari (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 10 Al-Azhar Park is listed as one of the world's sixty great public spaces by the
Project for Public Spaces . (from
Egypt )
Image 11 Kushari, one of Egypt's national dishes (from
Egypt )
Image 12 The Weighing of the Heart from the
Book of the Dead of Ani (from
Egypt )
Image 13 The
Giza Necropolis is the oldest of the
ancient Wonders and the only one still in existence. (from
Egypt )
Image 16 Khafre enthroned (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 17 The
Narmer Palette depicts the unification of the Two Lands. (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 19 Women in Cairo wear face masks during the
COVID-19 pandemic in Egypt in March 2020. (from
Egypt )
Image 20 Sennedjem plows his fields in
Aaru with a pair of oxen,
Deir el-Medina (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 21 Tutankhamun's burial mask is one of the major attractions of the
Egyptian Museum of Cairo. (from
Egypt )
Image 22 British infantry near
El Alamein , 17 July 1942 (from
Egypt )
Image 23 Rectangular fishpond with ducks and
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Image 24 Change in per capita GDP of Egypt, 1820–2018. Figures are inflation-adjusted to 2011 International dollars. (from
Egypt )
Image 25 An offshore platform in the Darfeel Gas Field (from
Egypt )
Image 26 The Ptolemaic Queen
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Image 27 The
Eastern Imperial Eagle is the national animal of Egypt. (from
Egypt )
Image 28 The
Qattara Depression in Egypt's north west (from
Egypt )
Image 29 The well preserved Temple of Isis from
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Image 30 Muhammad Ali was the founder of the
Muhammad Ali dynasty and the first
Khedive of Egypt and
Sudan . (from
Egypt )
Image 31 Tutankhamun charging enemies on his
chariot , 18th dynasty. (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 34 A tomb relief depicts workers plowing the fields, harvesting the crops, and threshing the grain under the direction of an overseer, painting in the tomb of
Nakht (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 35 Egyptian honour guard soldiers during a visit of U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen (from
Egypt )
Image 36 Naguib Mahfouz , the first Arabic-language writer to win the
Nobel Prize in Literature (from
Egypt )
Image 37 Statues of two pharaohs of Egypt's
Twenty-Fifth Dynasty and several other
Kushite kings,
Kerma Museum . (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 38 Hunting game birds and plowing a field, tomb of
Nefermaat and his wife
Itet (
c. 2700 BC ) (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 39 Egyptian President
Gamal Abdel Nasser in Mansoura, 1960 (from
Egypt )
Image 40 Egyptian
tomb models as funerary goods. (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 41 A figure wearing the red crown of Lower Egypt, most probably
Senwosret II. It functioned as a divine guardian for the
imiut ; the divine kilt, suggests that the statuette was not merely a representation of the living ruler. (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 42 Ruins of Deir el-Medina (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 43 The
Ahmad Ibn Tulun (from
Egypt )
Image 45 President el-Sisi with US President
Joe Biden , 11 November 2022 (from
Egypt )
Image 46 Egypt's topography (from
Egypt )
Image 47 Hatshepsut's trading expedition to the
Land of Punt (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 48 Glassmaking was a highly developed art. (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 49 The halls of Karnak Temple are built with rows of large columns. (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 50 The
Edwin Smith surgical papyrus describes anatomy and medical treatments, written in
hieratic ,
c. 1550 BC (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 51 Madrasa-Mosque of Sultan Hassan (from
Egypt )
Image 52 The
Amr ibn al-As mosque in Cairo, recognised as the oldest in Africa (from
Egypt )
Image 53 Prominent Egyptian dissident
Alaa Abd El-Fattah was sentenced to five years of imprisonment in December 2021. (from
Egypt )
Image 54 The
Fayum mummy portraits epitomize the meeting of Egyptian and Roman cultures. (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 55 The
pyramids of Giza are among the most recognizable symbols of ancient Egyptian civilization. (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 56 Pharaohs' tombs were provided with vast quantities of wealth, such as the
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Image 57 Egypt is the eighth most water stressed country in the world. (from
Egypt )
Image 58 A crowd at Cairo Stadium watching the
Egypt national football team (from
Egypt )
Image 59 The
Suez Canal (from
Egypt )
Image 60 The preserved Temple of Horus at Edfu is a model of Egyptian architecture. (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 61 Measuring and recording the harvest, from the tomb of
Menna at
Thebes (Eighteenth Dynasty). (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 62 Early tomb painting from
Nekhen ,
c. 3500 BC , Naqada, possibly Gerzeh, culture (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 63 The High Court of Justice in
Downtown Cairo (from
Egypt )
Image 65 Governorates of Egypt
1.
(from
Egypt )
Image 67 Cairo grew into a
metropolitan area with a population of over 20 million. (from
Egypt )
Image 68 Egyptian literacy rate among the population aged 15 years and older by UNESCO Institute of Statistics (from
Egypt )
Image 70 Protesters from the Third Square movement, which supported neither the former Morsi government nor the Armed Forces, 31 July 2013 (from
Egypt )
Image 71 Tourists riding an
Giza Necropolis is one of Egypt's main tourist attractions. (from
Egypt )
Image 72 Model of a household porch and garden,
c. 1981–1975 BC (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 73 Egypt under Muhammad Ali dynasty (from
Egypt )
Image 74 The Cairo Metro (line 2) (from
Egypt )
Image 75 The
Al-Hakim Mosque in Cairo, of
Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah , the sixth caliph, as renovated by
Dawoodi Bohra (from
Egypt )
Image 76 The
Temple of Dendur , completed by 10 BC,
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City) (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 77 A typical
Naqada II jar decorated with gazelles (Predynastic Period) (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 78 Coffin of Khnumnakht in 12th dynasty style, with palace facade, columns of inscriptions, and two Wedjat eyes (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 79 The pharaoh was usually depicted wearing symbols of royalty and power. (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 81 Hieroglyphs on stela in
Louvre , c. 1321 BC (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 83 Salah Zulfikar , film star (from
Egypt )
Image 84 The gods
Osiris ,
Anubis , and
Horus in the tomb of Horemheb (
KV57 ) in the Valley of the Kings. (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 85 Napoleon defeated the
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Image 86 Tanoura dancers performing in Wekalet El Ghoury, Cairo (from
Egypt )
Image 87 Painted limestone relief of a noble member of Ancient Egyptian society during the New Kingdom (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 89 The
Book of the Dead was a guide to the deceased's journey in the afterlife. (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 90 Wooden figures of soldiers, from the tomb of nomarch
Mesehti (
11th dynasty ) (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 91 Female nationalists demonstrating in
Cairo , 1919 (from
Egypt )
Image 92 Temple of Derr ruins in 1960 (from
Egypt )
Image 93 Lower-class occupations (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 94 Egyptians celebrated feasts and festivals, accompanied by music and dance. (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 95 Smart Village , a business district established in 2001 to facilitate the growth of high-tech businesses (from
Egypt )
Image 96 Menna and Family Hunting in the Marshes, Tomb of Menna,
c. 1400 BC (from
Ancient Egypt )
Image 97 Soad Hosny , film star (from
Egypt )
Image 98 Green irrigated land along the Nile amidst the desert and in the delta (from
Egypt )
Image 100 The
Egyptian Museum of Cairo (from
Egypt )
Image 101 Egypt's population density (people per km
2 ) (from
Egypt )
Image 102 The "weighing of the heart" scene from the
Book of the Dead (from
Egypt )
Image 103 Four colossal statues of
Ramesses II flank the entrance of his temple
Abu Simbel (from
Ancient Egypt )
Muhammad Ali Ottoman Albanian governor and de facto Egypt from 1805 to 1848, considered the founder of modern Egypt . At the height of his rule, he controlled Egypt, Sudan , Hejaz , Najd , the Levant , Crete and parts of Greece .
He was a military commander in an Albanian Ottoman force sent to recover Egypt from
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List of selected biographies
Rumi cheese Egyptian Arabic:
جبنه gebna pronounced [ˈɡebnæ] ) has a long history, and continues to be an important part of the Egyptian diet. There is evidence of
cheese -making over 5,000 years ago in the time of the
First Dynasty of Egypt . In the Middle Ages the city of
Damietta was famous for its soft, white cheese. Cheese was also imported, and the common hard yellow cheese,
rumi
Although many rural people still make their own cheese, notably the fermented
mish , mass-produced cheeses are becoming more common. Cheese is often served with breakfast, and is included in several traditional dishes, and even in some desserts. (
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Religions in Egypt
Arab states
Other countries
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