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An overview of the importance of the Nile River to the development of North Africa.
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Mosques and other religious architecture in Egypt.
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Traditional irrigation methods in rural Egypt.
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Learn how Cleopatra used her influence over Julius Caesar to stay in power.
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz
Overview of the Nile River, 2009.
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz; Thumbnail © Dmitry Pichugin/Dreamstime.com
Images
A seminomadic camp in Al-Baḥr al-Aḥmar governorate, eastern Egypt.
© Samir_Mustafa/Shutterstock.com
Al-Qaṣr, Egypt, in the oasis of Al-Dākhilah in the Western Desert.
Georg Gerster/Photo Researchers
A stand of sugarcane on the west bank of the Nile River, near Dandarah, Egypt.
Bob Burch/Bruce Coleman Inc.
Feluccas on the Nile River near Luxor in Upper Egypt.
Robert Frerck/Odyssey Productions
An Egyptian agricultural worker (fellah) wearing a traditional djellaba (gallibiyah).
©1992 Bill Lyons
Colossal statues of Ramses II flanking the entrance to the temple complex at Luxor,...
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Galleries in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
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Arcade and courtyard of the Mosque of Aḥmad ibn Ṭūlūn, Cairo.
Bright/M. Grimoldi
The citadel of Saladin, Cairo.
Katherine Young/Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Muḥammad ʿAlī.
Courtesy of the trustees of the British Museum; photograph, J.R. Freeman and Co. Ltd.
Expansion of Egypt under Muḥammad ʿAlī and Ismāʿīl.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
British soldiers supervising a crowd in Port Said, Egypt, while food is distributed...
Fox Photos—Hulton Archive/Getty Images
An Israeli armored column on its way into Syria during the Yom Kippur War between...
Daniel Rosenblum—Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Egyptian Pres. Anwar Sadat (left), U.S. Pres. Jimmy Carter (centre), and Israeli...
Jimmy Carter Library
A protester in Cairo holding signs calling for Pres. Hosni Mubarak to step down,...
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An Egyptian armoured personnel carrier covered in anti-Mubarak graffiti in Cairo,...
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The Great Sphinx and the pyramid of Khafre, near Giza, Egypt.
© Goodshoot/Jupiterimages
Chart of numerals in the Egyptian hieratic writing system.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Chart of numerals in the Egyptian hieroglyphic writing system.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
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