Tourist places in Egypt

Tourist places in Egypt
Tourist places in Egypt

Wednesday, July 06, 2011

Monastery of St. Simeon, Aswan

Established the monastery of St Simeon in Aswan before the sixth century AD and restored in the tenth century AD, One of the most important Coptic monasteries which have a great history in the old time. And it has a lot of monks, where Christianity spread among the people of the kingdoms of Nubia and became a Christian kingdoms, the ancient abbey church is still in place until Alan reserves the inscriptions and drawings on the walls remain beautiful and represent the images of Christ.

Saturday, June 18, 2011

Incomplete obelisk

length 41 km and weighs up to 190 tonnes and it is still found in the place which discovered it. In Okhaddod during carved in the rock, and there is a possibility that it was intended to be the obelisk a mate for the obelisk to Atirin that existed originally in the Karnak, now in Rome, a vivid example of concrete for the efforts and means which was used by ancient Egyptians in describing these inscriptions. And near this place, there are the Fatimid cemetery, which includes hundreds of tombs built of mud brick, which dates back to the ninth century AD.