Upper Egypt

Upper Egypt is a region located in the upper part of the territory of the River Nile in Egypt. Extend this area of ​​Giza in the north to Aswan in the south. And Upper Egypt represents the lower part of the map of Egypt, and is characterized at the fertility of its territory; so widespread in Upper Egypt sugar cane plantations. There are also aluminum factories in the town of Nag Hamadi in Qena Governorate, 

which depends on the power of the High Dam.
Tourism potential are located in Upper Egypt; deployed where the pharaohs, and the province of Luxor contains only two-thirds of the effects of the world

Nile Delta

Is the delta formed in Northern Egypt (Lower), where the Nile came out for track in the form of two branches to the Mediterranean. Damietta branch in the east and ends in Damietta and Rosetta branch in the west and ends at the city of Rosetta.It is one of the largest delta in the world - stretching from Port Said in the east to Alexandria in the west.It extends over an area 240 km on the Mediterranean coast - and is characterized by fertile Delta farmland arable at any time.The length of the Delta from north to south about 160 km. Delta and start from the bottom near the city of Cairo.Take the form of the Nile Delta triangle when viewed from above.Northern border of the Delta have been eroded because of the Mediterranean and the coastal lakes were formed then, the most important in Dakahlia Lake Manzala, Lake Burullus in Kafr El-Sheikh.Agricultural land has become less fertile after the establishment of the High Dam and farmers began to use chemical fertilizers to replenish soil nutrition.People lived in the Nile Delta for thousands of years, and they were working in agriculture for a period of not less than five thousand yearsRosetta Stone was found in the coastal town of Rashid, which is located in the western Delta, a stone that deciphering the ancient Pharonic civilization.Hundreds of birds come from all over the world in the winter to the Nile Delta. The most important gull flocksMost implants in the Nile Delta rice:Wheat - cotton - corn - Clover - fruit - pulp and other crops of the temperate zones.

Prevail in the Nile Delta Mediterranean climate with rainfall in the winter but not in large quantities. The months of July and August of the hottest months in the Delta, where the average is around 30 degrees Celsius and a maximum temperature of 48 degrees Celsius.

Apis

Mythology  

in ancient Egyptian, is the title of calves that were buried in the tombs of the Serapeum at Saqqara, was found on his bronze sculptures dating from the Persian rule of Ancient Egypt.
The calf was chosen by the white spots black front and back and neck. He had been living in the barn amid the sacred cows. When his death was a funeral priests in a state funeral. Then hastily crowned another spiritual symbol of the Holy center of the barn a major celebration.
Formal Description
Apis bull color black with the exception of a small white triangle on his forehead, between the horns and sun disk is decorated with cobra, and there are drawing on the back of the winged eagle.
Apis of the most important symbols in the Egyptian mythology of ancient Egypt, and was a symbol of fertility, and spread in Memphis.
The ancient Egyptians considered the symbol son of Ptah, and this was crowned put disk of the sun between its horns, its importance has increased with time and go to the Greek and Romanian civilizations.

Pharaoh - Title

Been custom and practice and terminology in modern times on the launch of the title of Pharaoh, the ruler of ancient Egypt., So as usual in the launch titles on the kings of the ancient world, for example, called on each of the king of the Persians as "fractions" Although it is called so is king of their kings, then usual then to label each king of Persian (fractions), as it is called the kings of the Romans "(Caesar)", and the kings of Abyssinia (the Negus), and so on and as usual, people in modern times they reconcile to grant the title of the kings of Egypt's ancient (Pharaohs), and was the ruler of ancient Egypt wore a crown of the two countries unified (code red crown and the crown of the north south united white symbol in the crown of one sign on the rule of the two countries and not once on them), that ruled upper Egypt and Lower Egypt. The conclusion that the word "Pharaoh" may have become used commonly used in modern times, a title for the ruler of ancient Egypt, for reasons due to the faith-based and attempts to interpretation biblical from one angle, that the investigation of language of the word remains a far cry from the fact dubbed the rulers of Egyptians in this title.

Music and Pharoahs

Egyptians are known in the Pharaonic era for their love of music and the popularity and use in educating young people and in the private and public celebrations, especially in the army also used it in prayer and bury the dead
Known to the ancient beautification jewel which was characterized by high technical precision and the beauty of forming and decorative elements derived from nature such as papyrus and lotus flower palm and used as gemstones in jewelry and ornamental

Book Of The Dead

It is a religious writings recorded on papyrus and placed with the dead to protect them from risk after death,
Writer was interested in ancient Egyptian natural phenomena brought by the degree of sanctification-bearing around the timeless myths, especially around the sun and the Nile,
The sun is the light of God, who does not miss the land of Egypt, which is the secret of warmth and life, and the Nile is the Giver of good for the land of Egypt, which is the way to eternal life, and excelled the writer of the ancient Egyptian writing stories and keen to be the floor tool to convey wisdom and rules of behavior Ancient Egyptians were bent on the novel their heritage of wise sayings and proverbs and chant their festivals and celebrations and traditions

Tiran Island

Located at the entrance of the Gulf of Aqaba, the island away from the coast of Sinai, 6.5 km area of ​​61 km 2, an island barren is accessed with difficulty by sea and there is the stability of human beings, despite its history the old and the role of civilization in the history of Sinai and it is impossible for a single ministry no matter what their means working out a single the difficulty of access and of livingTiran Island Current, which is located at the base of the Gulf of Aqaba to Ras Mohammed is the area Juthab old, which was the station customs Imperial Byzantine period in the sixth century AD, for the collection of taxes on trade from India to the ports, Byzantine, and it was the Byzantines activity of a large trade in the sixth century AD and imported silk from India, Ethiopia and sandalwood from China, glass, embroidered cloth from Syria.As the merchants of Ethiopia brought these goods to the port of Aduly on the Red Sea which is the capital of the Kingdom of Aksum, including the movement of ships Byzantine goods to the island of Juthab and accumulate in Juthab also boats Byzantine trade in spices with Arab ports on the eastern shore of the Red Sea, and Juthab sailing ships to Ayla ( Aqaba road) and to Qulzum (Suez) and Qulzum overland to the Nile and from Alexandria, including the products are distributed east for every Mediterranean and the mutual trade in the era of Byzantine include papyrus, spices from Egypt and the spices come to Egypt from the Far East.In the sixth century AD established the Emperor Justinian lighthouse on the hill the southern island of Pharaoh Taba to guide merchant ships coming from the island of Juthab to the head of the Gulf of Aqaba and left a garrison of soldiers to manage and guard the lighthouse, so I created them with living quarters and guard rooms on the lighthouse, was unveiled this lighthouse in 1989 and an area of ​​22 m from east to west 13 m from north to south, built a granite stone harvested from the same hill and slabs of limestone in the ceilings, and private accommodation next to the lighthouse to the commander of the Byzantine garrison surrounded by rooms and a guard of soldiers.

Were also detected a small church in the island of Pharaoh private garrison Byzantine located in the lighthouse and the stones with inscriptions and symbols of Christianity, did not affect the poor have thrown up the great leader Saladin castle on the island of Pharaoh in 1170, and near Sharm el-Sheikh found the effects of the Sinai for the Islamic and Coptic Monuments on the large jar of storage jars, which were transported by boat from Juthab to Ayla.This great civilization on the land of the island of Tiran hide archaeological treasures may be equivalent to the treasures of Tutankhamun did not reach the hands of thieves, did not publish any reports on the work of archaeological excavations in the course of Israel's occupation of the Sinai