Egyptian culture today tourist exploration

Egypt blended culture

Egypt is not from the third world countries and not from the countries of the first world also, we are not backward, but we have the fantasy of underdevelopment, It's very complected to express the Egyptian people with words, as it's a mixer of Pharaohs, Greeks, Ottomans, English, French, Islamic and Christian cultures all blended, you just have to deal with them to know.

If you want to explore the real Egypt it's not only the historical place or the nice weather and beaches, the Beautiful Egypt is dealing with the Egyptian people, warmth, generosity, humbleness and helpful.

The best place to explore the Egyptian culture today is to deal and watch the Egyptian people in a local coffee shop, so to feel more Egyptian I help you use some Arabic words to order your drink.

Have you tried to sit in a local Egyptian coffee shop?

If you did you would have heard some expressions in ordering your drink, I thought today to tell you how to order in Arabic and what it means.

Starting with the Egyptian or Turkish coffee:

Qahwa means coffee
Qahwa zeyada mean coffee with extra sugar "two teaspoon of sugar"
Qahwa mano it's a bit sugary than medium and less than extra "one and half teaspoon of sugar"
Qahwa mazbot means medium sugar coffee "one teaspoon of sugar"
Qahwa alreha = low sugar "half teaspoon"
Qahwa sada means with no sugar.
Qahwa faransawy means coffee with milk then use the sugar expressions with it, 

ex: qahwa faransawy mazbot means coffee with milk medium sugar.

Tea is much easier as it usually come without sugar and you put what you like, it's pronounced shay means tea
Shay fatla means tea bag
Shay ada means regular tea "no tea bag"
Shay meza or shay belaban mean tea with milk.

Sahlab is an Arabian hot drink usually we drink it in winter as it's very hot and it make you get warmer very delicious it taste nearly pudding.

To be updated with recommended coffee shops and more Arabic helpful expressions.

Serapeum of Saqqara 100 ton boxes mystery

The Saqqara Serapeum:

Found in 1851 by the French Egyptologist François Auguste Ferdinand Mariette, He was in a mission seeking Coptic manuscript for the Louvre collection so that it retained its then-supremacy over other national collections, He came to Egypt in 1850 but after an unsuccessful mission finding the manuscripts to avoid an embarrassing return empty-handed to France, Started to visit temples and get friendship with the Bedouins whom led him to Saqqara, Thus, in 1851, he made his celebrated discovery of this avenue and eventually the subterranean tomb-temple complex of catacombs with their spectacular sarcophagi of the Apis bulls, Saqqara Serapeum located near the djoser pyramid in Saqqara.

Saqqara Serapeum Map

The Serapeum of Saqqara corridors are carved in the ground for a distance of 380 meters, Separated side sections had 24 granite coffins, The average weight of the sarcophagus is about 100 tons, and there is only the "lower vestibule", which includes the tombs of the Apis bull.

Now here goes the questions ,
How was this corridors carved in the ground for 380 meters?
How was this 100 ton granite Boxes or Sarcophagus pushed inside?
How was granite Sarcophagus cut and polished without a machine?
What was the source of power?
Every time Explorers of the Egyptology find a new discovery thinking that they will find answers they get stuck in more and more questions and mysteries