Beautiful Egypt

#Sphinx

Located on the Giza plateau front of the pyramids on the west bank of the Nile in Giza, Egypt, the Sphinx is also a guardian of the plateau. It is the oldest known monumental sculpture, about 73.5 meters long, 15 meters in length, 19.3 meters in length, and 20 meters above the surface of the head. It is believed that the ancient Egyptians built in the reign of Pharaoh Khafre

The Sphinx is a statue of a mythical creature with a lion's body and a human head carved from limestone. It was probably originally covered with a layer of plaster and colored. The traces of the original colors are still visible next to one of its ears.

The Sphinx Dream stele is a memorial plaque ordered by Pharaoh Thutmose IV between the extended hands of the statue of the Sphinx in Giza, in memory of a dream dreamed by this Pharaoh before he ascended the throne of Egypt in 1401 BC. The Pharaoh was a young prince in the era of the modern state and was once fishing on the Giza plateau. When he was tired, he resorted to the Sphinx, which was covered by desert sand and showed only his head, and the Prince was went to sleep. the Sphinx appeared in a dream and promised that he would replace the throne of Egypt, and asked him to remove the accumulated sand after he gets the throne.

Several years later, the prince ascended the throne of Egypt. During the first year of his rule, he ordered this dream to be recorded on a large plate, placed in the hands of the sphinx extending after the removal of sand from the sphinx. Some 1,300 years after the construction of the Sphinx.

Roman Catacombs in Alexandria

Alexandria in the beautiful Egypt, was a part of the Roman empire and the largest city after Rome's capital,

That's the reason of many Roman artifacts in Alexandria one of them is the Roman catacombs,

located Kom El Shoqafa which means Mound of Shards, and is considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Middle Ages

These catacombs, the largest known Roman burial site in Egypt, were constructed in the 1st and 2nd century AD, probably as a family crypt.

The beautiful Egypt, Roman catacombs in Alexandria is a mixture of the Pharaonic art overlapped with the Roman art of the city and the most magnificent models of funerary architecture. The cemetery was discovered by chance on September 28, 1900, although excavations began in this area since 1892, the chance came when a donkey fall in a hole and they were trying to check how the donkey fall to save it they found the great Roman Catacombs.