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'Tutankhamun and his tomb
Tut’ankhamun (Nebkhepruré) (d. 1323 B.C.E.) Twelfth
ruler of the Eighteenth Dynasty and the most famous
pharaoh of Egypt
He reigned from 1333 B.C.E. until his untimely death. The
most popular pharaoh in modern times because of the
discovery of his tomb, he was probably the son of AKHENATEN.
As the successor of SMENKHARÉ, he was only eight
or nine at his succession. He was married to ANKHESENAMON,
the third daughter of NEFERTITI and Akhenaten, and
for...
Cairo
Cairo,officially al-Qahirah but popularly and normally referred to as Misr (pron. Masr), the capital of the Arab Republic of Egypt. The city occupies a triangular plain with the narrowest point to the S on the East Bank of the River Nile where the Muqattam Hills make their closest approach to the river.
In Cairo the older areas in the main still retain their medieval form, and many of the streets are known from descriptions of them given by...
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