Beautiful Egypt: February 2018

The sun rays in Temple of Abu Simbel

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In the first of its kind, there is an unprecedented crowd of foreign and Egyptian expatriates, in addition to the presence of three ministers for the sight of the sun on the face of King Ramses II.
There are 12 information about this unique Pharaonic phenomenon in the city of Abu Simbel, the wonder that the ancient Egyptians embodied for thousands of years:

1- The sun rays on the Holy of Holies in the Temples of Abu Simbel twice every year 22 February and 22 October.
2. The sun passes through the front corridor of the entrance of Ramses II temple, 200 meters long, until it reaches the Holy of Holies.

3 - The Holy of Holies consists of a platform that includes the statue of King Ramesses the Second sitting next to the Statue of God Ra Hor his sister and the god Amun and the fourth statue of the god Ptah.
4 - Interestingly, the sun does not perpendicular to the face of the statue "Ptah" which was considered by the ancient god of darkness.

5. The sun-rise phenomenon takes only 20 minutes on that day. First, the ancient Egyptians designed the temple based on astronomy to determine the beginning and enrichment of the agricultural season. The second story is that these two days coincide with the day of the birth of King Ramses II and the day he sits on the throne.
6. The phenomenon of the sun was celebrated before 1964 on 21 February and 21 October, and with the transfer of the temple to its new location, change the timing of the phenomenon to 22 February and 22 October.

7. The Abu Simbel Temple was built after the construction of the High Dam due to the accumulation of water behind the High Dam and Lake Nasser. The international campaign to save the remains of Abu Simbel and Nubia between 1964 and 1968 was initiated by UNESCO in cooperation with the Egyptian government at a cost of $ 40 million.
8 - Moving the temple by dismantling the parts and statues of the temple and re-installed in its new location at a height of 65 meters above the level of the river, and is one of the greatest works in archaeological engineering.

9. The Temples of Abu Simbel were discovered on August 1, 1817, when the Italian explorer Giovanni Belonzi succeeded in finding them among the sands of the south.
10 - The phenomenon of sun constipation was discovered in 1874, when the explorer "Emilia Edward" and the accompanying group, this phenomenon and recorded in her book published in 1899 entitled "A thousand miles over the Nile."
11 - King Ramses II built his large temple in Abu Simbel, and built beside him the temple of his beloved wife Queen Nvartari.
12 - The phenomenon of the sun is still puzzling scientists in various areas, and become the mystery of industrial phenomenon of astronomical miracle, which is celebrated by tourists and visitors to the Temple of Abu Simbel twice a year a big mystery.

Dr. Hatem Zaghloul Egyptian character of the week

Dr. Hatem Zaghloul was born in Giza (7 February 1957), an Egyptian Canadian, known internationally for his research and inventions. The most important of these are his two joint ventures with his friend Dr. Michel Fattoush: Wideband Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (WOFDM) and Multi-Code Direct-Sequence Spread Spectrum, Which Wi-Fi technology built on allows high-speed wireless connectivity between some electronic devices (such as personal computers and mobile phones).

Old Cataract Aswan

The Cataract Hotel is an ancient guest house in the southern city of Aswan, called the waterfall in English, a reference to Nile Falls, the first of which is located in the city. The hotel is located on the opposite bank of Elephantine Island.

Agatha Christie the will known English writer was a resident,
she wrote her book Death on the Nile in 1937 wish turned to a move in 1978 with the same name.

New Alamein city

Corniche of "New Alamein" .. The roads and the gate have been completed and the city has 5,000 social housing units as distinguished as the first phase of the finishing of 2000 units, of which 1 km of the city's Corniche, which is 14 km long, is the same length as the Alexandria Corniche. The city is expected to accommodate 3-4 million Egyptian and foreign citizens and the city is the first model of the fourth generation cities in Egypt.

The first-class tourist city includes 20 thousand hotel rooms, including tourism activities, conferences and cultural tourism, including an opera house and an international library.
The city has a new industrial zone similar to that of the Arabs on an area of 9000 acres is underway to end the ways they serve and coordination with investors to start pumping their industrial investment.

- The alternative road of the coastal road, about 38 km long, was carried out from the Wadi Al-Natroun Al-Alamain road to Sidi Abdel Rahman. The road was implemented by the Arab Contractors Company.

The road width is 5 lanes in each direction. The route of this road is about 10 km, from its intersection with Wadi El Natroun El Alamein Road, until Gate 1 of Marina, on the coastal road "Alexandria-Matruh". Al-Alamein is one of four million cities Egypt is currently building after the new capital, East Port Said and New Mansoura.

It has a desalination plant with a capacity of 150 thousand meters per day. The city has a 14-km international promenade with a pedestrian path, another track for cyclists and an amusement park, bicycle lanes, restaurants, cafés, volleyball and tennis courts. "Shown in the pictures has been completed" The city currently has 11,000 people, up to 400,000 after completion of the first phase of the project The city is fully monitored with the latest surveillance systems, cameras and emergency alarm systems Al-Alamain Lake, Al-Alamain Gardens Park, Marsa Al-Fanara, an international conference center for the reception of European conferences and entertainment area, as well as the Cultural Center, Tourist Housing, Bahai Buildings, Fairgrounds, Opera House and a group of international hotels have been launched.

Museum and an international park, a mosque and a church and includes the graves of world war and new schools and universities, and the area of hotels in the city of about 296 acres including 15 hotels and 500 rooms and clubs Sports centers, retail outlets, exhibitions and a "global amusement park with investments of $ 3.3 billion" An open-air zoo, a global port for European yachts, a cinema complex, open-air theaters, a medical center for healing and physiotherapy. - The UAE investor Alabbar and Saudi Arabia's Ibn Talal has injected investments into the city and CEO of InterContinental Hotels Group has asked the Minister of Housing to establish 3 new hotels containing 1000 rooms in the new Al-Alamain city: Intercontinental, Holiday Inn and Stay Bridge. This is after the announcement of the company "Marriott" global construction of the hotel "GW" 250 rooms and 50 villas and another hotel in the neighborhood of the towers currently underway with a capacity of 300 rooms.