Egypt in our hearts

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AL TAHRIR SQUARE, Egypt (eTN) - Thousand of Egyptians filled Cairo’s symbolic Al Tahrir Square after the last Friday prayers and the day after to celebrate the first month of their successful revolution and the second week since Mubarak’s forced step down from office. The peaceful gathering also launched slogans aimed at urging the military to overhaul the newly-appointed cabinet and install a fresh team of technocrats.
Among the prevailing crowd of youngsters, many students conversant in English expressed their pride for the contribution to the epochal political change. Their expectation is now for the system to recognize the significance of the change, which for them means jobs, economic opportunities, and social justice - the only conditions that will make them feel “free” in a peaceful new Egypt.
Cairo, a megalopolis of almost twenty million people, was seen as surprisingly calm. Life as usual was witnessed by the maddening traffic that, together with the pyramids, is an icon of the city. It is really hard to believe that a turmoil of such proportion, left no traces except for the sad loss of 13 young lives, whose plasticized group image is saved in memory.

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Pyramid of Khafre

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The Pyramid of Khafre and the Great Sphinx of Giza on the Giza Plateau , Cairo, Egypt The Pyramid of Khafre, also known as the Pyramid of Chefren, [ 1 ] is the second-largest of the Ancient Egyptian Pyramids of Giza and the tomb of the fourth-dynasty pharaoh Khafre   Size The pyramid has a base length of 215.5 m (706 ft) and rises to a height of 136.4 metres (448 ft) (originally 143.5 m/471 ft). [ 1 ] The Pyramid is made of Limestone blocks (weighing more than 2 tons each). The slope of the pyramid rises at an 53° 10' angle, steeper than its neighbor, the Pyramid of Khufu which has an angle of 51°50'40". The pyramid sits on bedrock 10 m (33 ft) higher than Khufu’s pyramid which makes it appear to be taller. History The pyramid was likely opened and robbed during the First Intermediate Period . During the 18th dynasty the overseer of temple construction robbed casing stone from it to build a temple in Heliopolis on Rameses II ’...
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Kemet...don't die

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  Kemet...don't die Said by the great king of Egypt, Ramses II In his will to his son, Merneptah, the next king of Egypt before he dies Ramesses II said “You are the next Kemet King I know that you inherited a great kingdom from your ancestors The sun never sets It is the holy land of God which made it a light to the world And God does not accept that his land should ever die Protect her from her enemies As your ancestors preserved it before. Egypt....a land that never dies And the people... do not perish And Nora... it may dim, but it never gets dark
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Cairo, Egypt

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Cairo, Egypt has always been attracting travelers, dating back over 10 centuries ago to the time of the Mamluks. However, the beautiful, hectic, crowded, surprising, enchanting (and every other cool sounding adjective) city of Cairo is still in the eyes of the Egyptians the City Victorious, known officially as al-Qahirah or simply “Masr”, the name for Egypt as a whole. Cairo is one of the world's largest urban areas and offers many sites to visit. It is the administrative capital of Egypt and, close by, is almost every Egypt Pyramid , such as the Great Pyramids of Giza on the very edge of the city. There are also ancient temples, tombs, gorgeous Christian churches , magnificent Muslim monuments , and of course, the Egyptian Antiquities Museum all either within or nearby to the city. As long as you’re willing to loosen your senses and lose yourself to this majestic city, you can discover the sweetness of Cairo; the coziness of small cafes and the pleasure ...
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