• ... that in ancient Egypt, servants of the pharaohs would agree to be sacrificed to provide their care in the afterlife?

• ... that the Abu Haggag Mosque, formerly a church, is integrated into the Luxor Temple, making it the oldest building in the world continuously in use?

• ... that in 215 AD, Roman emperor Caracalla ordered all of Alexandria’s population to be massacred because they produced a satire mocking him?

• ... that the Lost Army of Cambyses was a legendary army of 50,000 men who all disappeared in a sandstorm in Egypt’s Western Desert?

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Portal:Egypt/Did you know/1

• ... that this 1839 photograph of Ras El Tin Palace in Alexandria was the first photo ever taken in Africa?

Portal:Egypt/Did you know/2

• ... that Maimonides Synagogue in Cairo is named for the famous Jewish philosopher, rabbi and physician Maimonides (pictured)?

Portal:Egypt/Did you know/3

• ... that in ancient Egypt, servants of the pharaohs would agree to be sacrificed to provide their care in the afterlife?

Portal:Egypt/Did you know/4

• ... that Japanese samurai visited Egypt as part of the Ikeda Mission in 1864, and took this photograph in front of the Sphinx?

Portal:Egypt/Did you know/5

• ... that the Fayum mummy portraits (pictured) are stunningly realistic portraits that were attached the upper class mummies in Roman Egypt?

Portal:Egypt/Did you know/6

• ... that in 1863, during the Egyptian rule in Sudan, Sa'id Pasha sent 447 Sudanese slave soldiers (pictured) to Mexico to fight for Maximilian I in the Second French intervention in Mexico?

Portal:Egypt/Did you know/7

• ... that 995 graffiti from the Greco-Roman period (pictured) can be seen in the tomb of Ramesses VI, left by pilgrims. They include "I visited and I did not like anything except the sarcophagus!", "I admired!" and "I cannot read the hieroglyphs!"

Portal:Egypt/Did you know/8

• ... that the Alexandrian calendar, based on the ancient Egyptian calendar, was used for fiscal purposes in Egypt until the adoption of the Gregorian calendar in 1875, and is still used today by the Coptic Orthodox Church and the fellahin (peasantry) of Egypt?

Portal:Egypt/Did you know/9

• ... that the Abu Haggag Mosque, formerly a church, is integrated into the Luxor Temple, making it the oldest building in the world continuously in use?

Portal:Egypt/Did you know/10

• ... that the Lavon Affair was a failed Israeli false flag operation in which bombs were planted inside Egyptian-, American-, and British-owned civilian targets such as cinemas, libraries, and American educational centers?

Portal:Egypt/Did you know/11

• ... that in 1956-57 the Egyptian government attempted to expel all foreigners and Jews from Egypt?

Portal:Egypt/Did you know/12

• ... that the Magyarabs are a community in Egypt and Sudan that claims descent from Hungarian soldiers of the Ottoman army?

Portal:Egypt/Did you know/13

• ... that Adolf Hitler was so impressed by Egyptian weightlifter Khadr El-Touni at the 1936 Summer Olympics that he ordered a street named after him in Berlin's Olympic village?

Portal:Egypt/Did you know/14

• ... that in the 3rd century BC Eratosthenes used arc measurement between Alexandria and Syene (modern Aswan) to accurately calculate Earth's circumference?

Portal:Egypt/Did you know/15

• ... that the ancient Egyptian temples of Dakka, Maharraqa, Wadi es-Sebua, Amada, and Derr were all dismantled in the 1960s and rebuilt elsewhere, to avoid the rising waters of Lake Nasser created by the Aswan Dam?

Portal:Egypt/Did you know/16

• ... that arguably only two empires, the Roman Empire and the Ottoman Empire, separate Ancient Egypt from World War I?

Portal:Egypt/Did you know/17

• ... that the Battle of Ain Jalut, fought in 1260 between the Mongol Empire and Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt, was the first time a Mongol advance was permanently beaten back on the battlefield?

Portal:Egypt/Did you know/18

• ... that governors of Roman Egypt were given a unique title, Praefectus Augustalis, to signify that they governed in the personal name of the emperor?

Portal:Egypt/Did you know/19

• ... that Pharaoh Ramesses II had about 100 children, and that some of his children were also his grandchildren because he married his own daughters?

Portal:Egypt/Did you know/20

• ... that the Coptic language, the last stage of the Ancient Egyptian language, remains in daily use as the liturgical language of Coptic Christians?

Portal:Egypt/Did you know/21

• ... that in 215 AD, Roman emperor Caracalla ordered all of Alexandria’s population to be massacred because they produced a satire mocking him?

Portal:Egypt/Did you know/22

• ... that, according to Herodotus, Pharaoh Necho II commissioned an expedition of Phoenicians, who in three years sailed from the Red Sea around Africa back to the Nile Delta?

Portal:Egypt/Did you know/23

• ... that the Diary of Merer is a group of papyrus logbooks written by Merer, who worked on the transport of white limestone blocks from the Tura quarries to Giza for the outer cladding of the Great Pyramid?

Portal:Egypt/Did you know/24

• ... that the Lost Army of Cambyses was a legendary army of 50,000 men who all disappeared in a sandstorm in Egypt’s Western Desert?

Portal:Egypt/Did you know/25

• ... that Christian monasticism originated in the deserts of Egypt?

Portal:Egypt/Did you know/26

• ... that the entrance of Djoser’s pyramid complex features columns fashioned to resemble bundled reeds and ceiling blocks carved into the shape of tree trunks?

Portal:Egypt/Did you know/27

• ... that, according to Herodotus, Pharaoh Psamtik I conducted an experiment to discover the origin of language, and found that Phrygian was the oldest language?

Portal:Egypt/Did you know/28

• ... that Ancient Egyptians were shocked by the Greco-Roman practice of infanticide, and would rescue abandoned babies from manure heaps?

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