The Coptic Museum is a museum in Coptic Cairo, Egypt with the largest collection of Egyptian Christian artifacts in the world. It was founded by Marcus Simaika in 1908 to house Coptic antiquities. The museum traces the history of Christianity in …
The ancient Egyptian city of Memphis
Most excursions to North Saqqara include a brief visit to the remains of Memphis in the village of Mit Rahina. Unfortunately, they will not help the imagination to reconstruct the …
Temple of Ramsess III (Habu Temple)
Medinet Habu is the Arabic name for the Mortuary Temple of Ramses III, a huge complex second only to Karnak in size and better preserved. Medinet Habu is among the …
St. Catherine’s Monastery and Mount Sinai
Revered by Christians, Jews, and Muslims as a place of Revelation expressed in the ten commandments, mount Sinai rises above the valley where Moses heard God speaking to him from …
The temple of Kalabsha in Aswan, Egypt
The giant kalabsha temple looms over lake Nasser near the Western edge of the high-rise dam. It turns out to be either on a Cape or on an island, depending …