The Museum of artefacts of ancient Egypt. The largest archaeological museum in the world was complete in 2020 exhibiting the full Tutankhamun collection with many pieces. The museum is sited on 50 hectares of land approximately two kilometers from the Giza pyramids. The building is designed by Heneghan Peng Architects, Buro Happold and Arup. The exhibition masterplan, […]
Τhe North African campaign between the forces of the British Empire and the German-Italian army commanded in the field by Erwin Rommel in World War II. Having taken Tobruk in June 1942, Rommel advanced into Egypt but had been checked and beaten at Alam Halfa in September there after the initiative had passed. Rommel mined and fortified […]
Howard Carter discovered it underneath the remains of workmen’s huts built during the Ramesside Period. Tutankhamun’s tomb was discovered by English Egyptologist and his team in the Valley of the Kings, near Luxor, in 1922. KV62 is the standard Egyptological designation for the tomb of young pharaoh Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings. The tomb was […]
