Category: HISTORY
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The Aleksandrinke: Slovenians in Egypt
The people of the Slovene region had seen their territory come under Italian rule after World War I, followed by an intense process of italianisation under fascism. When they immigrated to Egypt, many of the Slovenian women found employment as domestic workers in the households of Alexandrian-Italian families, with whom they shared a linguistic commonality.…
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The story of cities: how Alexandria laid foundations for the modern world
Soon after conquering Egypt, Alexander had a dream in which Homer visited him and spoke lines from The Odyssey. Among them was a reference to the Egyptian island of Pharos in the Mediterranean, and so the next morning Alexander travelled to Pharos and stood upon its rocks, clutching the golden casket and staring out at a…
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Gianaclis Palace in Al-Beheira becomes a Nile Delta archaeological site
Minister of Antiquities Mamdouh Eldamaty announced today that the decision was taken according to Article 1 of Egypt’s Antiquities Law No 17/1983, stipulating that any edifice in Egypt with distinguished archaeological or historical value, or decorative or artistic elements, be put on Egypt’s Heritage List as symbol of Egypt’s historic civilisation. Eldamaty told Ahram Online…