The Four Seasons’ Guide To Cairo And Egypt’s Pyramids
For your Egypt adventure start in Cairo and let the Four Seasons Nile Plaza arrange everything from a visit to the Great Pyramid to newly-opened Grand Egyptian Museum ...
Live like James Bond: The 007 filming locations you can visit
The secret agent has left bullet holes and martini glasses across the world, from Jamaica to the Scottish Highlands, Istanbul to Shanghai ...
Is the Grand Egyptian Museum worth visiting? What you can see – and what’s missing – before it fully opens
The Hetepheres collection now sits among the thousands of incredible artefacts at the newly-opened Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM ...
Archaeologists Find a Pharaoh’s Tomb, the First Since King Tut’s, Egypt Says
The ministry of antiquities said the discovery of the tomb of Thutmose II, whose wife, Hatshepsut, took the throne after his ...
Ancient pharaoh’s tomb unearthed in Egypt, first since Tutankhamun’s in 1922
The tomb of Thutmose II, who ruled about 3,500 years ago, was discovered by an Egyptian-British team near the Valley of the ...
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From Mosques to Synagogues: Cairo’s Top 5 Religious Sites for Travelers
Cairo, a city where history and spirituality intertwine, is home to some of the most significant religious sites in the world ...
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Mosul’s Renowned Minaret Restored from Ravages of ISIS
Mosul’s Grand al-Nuri Mosque, known for its eight-century-old leaning minaret, destroyed by ISIS militants in 2017, has been ...
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The Race for Paradise: An Islamic History of the Crusades
Paul Cobb’s aim is to break with the ‘traditional perspective’ whereby the essential history of the Crusades begins with the preaching of Pope Urban II at Clermont in 1095, which launched the First ...
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Historic landmarks in Iraq's Mosul are reopening as the city heals from Islamic State devastation
MOSUL, Iraq — (AP) — For over 850 years, the leaning minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri stood as an iconic landmark in the Iraqi city of Mosul until it was destroyed by the Islamic State ...
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Iraq's famed 'hunchback' of Mosul rebuilt brick by brick
The leaning minaret of Mosul in northern Iraq has been restored using its original brickwork, years after it was reduced to rubble under IS group rule. The Al-Hadba or "hunchback" minaret is part of ...