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Image 1The pyramids of Giza are among the most recognizable symbols of ancient Egyptian civilization. (from Ancient Egypt)
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Image 2The pharaoh was usually depicted wearing symbols of royalty and power. (from Ancient Egypt)
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Image 3Frontispiece of Description de l'Égypte, published in 38 volumes between 1809 and 1829 (from Ancient Egypt)
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Image 4(from Egypt)Governorates of Egypt1. Matrouh2. Alexandria3. Beheira4. Kafr El Sheikh5. Dakahlia6. Damietta7. Port Said8. North Sinai9. Gharbia10. Monufia11. Qalyubia12. Sharqia13. Ismailia14. Giza15. Faiyum16. Cairo17. Suez18. South Sinai19. Beni Suef20. Minya21. New Valley22. Asyut23. Red Sea24. Sohag25. Qena26. Luxor27. Aswan
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Image 6Celebrating the signing of the 1978 Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin, Jimmy Carter, Anwar Sadat (from Egypt)
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Image 7The Cairo Metro (line 2) (from Egypt)
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Image 11Pharaohs' tombs were provided with vast quantities of wealth, such as the golden mask from the mummy of Tutankhamun. (from Ancient Egypt)
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Image 12Statues of two pharaohs of Egypt's Twenty-Fifth Dynasty and several other Kushite kings, Kerma Museum (from Ancient Egypt)
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Image 14Egypt's population density (people per km2) (from Egypt)
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Image 15The Book of the Dead was a guide to the deceased's journey in the afterlife. (from Ancient Egypt)
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Image 17Smart Village, a business district established in 2001 to facilitate the growth of high-tech businesses (from Egypt)
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Image 18The Rosetta Stone (c. 196 BC) enabled linguists to begin deciphering ancient Egyptian scripts. (from Ancient Egypt)
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Image 19Hunting game birds and plowing a field, tomb of Nefermaat and his wife Itet (c. 2700 BC) (from Ancient Egypt)
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Image 22Al-Azhar Park is listed as one of the world's sixty great public spaces by the Project for Public Spaces. (from Egypt)
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Image 23Smoke rises from oil tanks beside the Suez Canal hit during the initial Anglo-French assault on Egypt, 5 November 1956. (from Egypt)
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Image 25Arabic calligraphy has seen its golden age in Cairo. This adornment and beads being sold in Muizz Street (from Culture of Egypt)
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Image 26Sennedjem plows his fields in Aaru with a pair of oxen, Deir el-Medina. (from Ancient Egypt)
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Image 28Naguib Mahfouz, the first Arabic-language writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (from Egypt)
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Image 31Measuring and recording the harvest, from the tomb of Menna at Thebes (Eighteenth Dynasty) (from Ancient Egypt)
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Image 33Egyptian literacy rate among the population aged 15 years and older by UNESCO Institute of Statistics (from Egypt)
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Image 35Egyptian honour guard soldiers during a visit of U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen (from Egypt)
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Image 38The Fayum mummy portraits epitomize the meeting of Egyptian and Roman cultures. (from Ancient Egypt)
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Image 40The well preserved Temple of Isis from Philae is an example of Egyptian architecture and architectural sculpture. (from Ancient Egypt)
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Image 42Aziz Pasha Abaza, poet from the aristocratic literay Egyptian family the House of Abaza of Circassian Abazin origin (from Culture of Egypt)
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Image 43Ruins of Deir el-Medina (from Ancient Egypt)
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Image 45Lower-class occupations (from Ancient Egypt)
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Image 48Tutankhamun's burial mask is one of the major attractions of the Egyptian Museum of Cairo. (from Egypt)
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Image 49A 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)
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Image 50Egyptians celebrated feasts and festivals, accompanied by music and dance. (from Ancient Egypt)
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Image 52Protesters from the Third Square movement, which supported neither the former Morsi government nor the Armed Forces, 31 July 2013 (from Egypt)
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Image 53Change in per capita GDP of Egypt, 1820–2018. Figures are inflation-adjusted to 2011 International dollars. (from Egypt)
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Image 55Egypt under Muhammad Ali dynasty (from Egypt)
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Image 57Wooden figures of soldiers, from the tomb of nomarch Mesehti (11th dynasty) (from Ancient Egypt)
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Image 59Seagoing ship of an expedition to Punt, from a relief of Hatshepsut's Mortuary temple, Deir el-Bahari (from Ancient Egypt)
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Image 62Four colossal statues of Ramesses II flank the entrance of his temple Abu Simbel. (from Ancient Egypt)
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Image 63The gods Osiris, Anubis, and Horus in the tomb of Horemheb (KV57) in the Valley of the Kings (from Ancient Egypt)
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Image 64The halls of Karnak Temple are built with rows of large columns. (from Ancient Egypt)
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Image 65Prominent Egyptian dissident Alaa Abd El-Fattah was sentenced to five years of imprisonment in December 2021. (from Egypt)
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Image 66Napoleon defeated the Mamluk troops in the Battle of the Pyramids, 21 July 1798, painted by Lejeune. (from Egypt)
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Image 67Egypt's topography (from Egypt)
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Image 68The Edwin Smith surgical papyrus describes anatomy and medical treatments, written in hieratic, c. 1550 BC. (from Ancient Egypt)
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Image 70The Al-Hakim Mosque in Cairo, of Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, the sixth caliph, as renovated by Dawoodi Bohra (from Egypt)
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Image 73Early tomb painting from Nekhen, c. 3500 BC, Naqada, possibly Gerzeh culture (from Ancient Egypt)
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Image 74Ancient Egyptians playing music (from Egypt)
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Image 75Anubis, the god associated with mummification and burial rituals, attending to a mummy (from Ancient Egypt)
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Image 77The Temple of Dendur, completed by 10 BC, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City) (from Ancient Egypt)
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Image 79Green irrigated land along the Nile amidst the desert and in the delta (from Egypt)
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Image 81Painted limestone relief of a noble member of Ancient Egyptian society during the New Kingdom (from Ancient Egypt)
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Image 82The Giza Necropolis is the oldest of the ancient Wonders and the only one still in existence. (from Egypt)
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Image 85Muhammad Ali was the founder of the Muhammad Ali dynasty and the first Khedive of Egypt and Sudan. (from Egypt)
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Image 87A figure wearing the red crown of Lower Egypt, most probably Amenemhat II or 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)
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Image 90Soad Hosny, Egyptian film star. Among the most famous Egyptian and Arabic actresses. (from Culture of Egypt)
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Image 91The preserved Temple of Horus at Edfu is a model of Egyptian architecture. (from Ancient Egypt)
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Image 94Coffin of Khnumnakht in 12th dynasty style, with palace facade, columns of inscriptions, and two Wedjat eyes (from Ancient Egypt)
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Image 95Egypt is the eighth most water stressed country in the world. (from Egypt)
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Image 96Rectangular fishpond with ducks and lotus planted round with date palms and fruit trees, Tomb of Nebamun, Thebes, 18th Dynasty (from Ancient Egypt)
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Image 98Tourists riding an Arabian camel in front of Pyramid of Khafre. The Giza Necropolis is one of Egypt's main tourist attractions. (from Egypt)
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Image 99An offshore platform in the Darfeel Gas Field (from Egypt)
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Image 101The Ptolemaic Queen Cleopatra VII and her son by Julius Caesar, Caesarion, at the Temple of Dendera (from Egypt)
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Image 102Glassmaking was a highly developed art. (from Ancient Egypt)
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Image 103Alexandria in 2017 (from Egypt)