


Cairo museum is covered with the statues so often called the" Ushapties" usually they are made of different materials and belong to different periods, some are made of stone and some are made of ceramic or wood, some of it is from the old kingdom,2800 BC -2500 BC and some are bet recent . The ancient Egyptian mythology describes it as representations to the original servants and slaves who were used often by their owners to farm their own fields and perhaps having these statue was the only replacement to the limited tradition of entombing some slaves alive by the time their master dies as we found some of the predynastic graves filled with skeletons of who were clearly buried alive next to the master. The title Ushapti has two meanings in the Hieroglyphics one is translated as Washep a farmer with a determinative picture of papyrus reeds to represent Lower Egypt farmers and sometime with lotus flowers to represent Upper Egypt farmers while the other translation is to be washep which is a verb means answer or reply
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Since the Egyptian Pre-Historic eras which is around 4000 B.C, the ancients had used different types of hunting and fighting wands. Surprisingly, the Egyptian museum has the oldest discovered boomerangs on earth, the most complete collection is the one which had been discovered in Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922, and the tomb was discovered by Howard Carter. King Tutankhamun's collection "1300 B.C"at Cairo Museum has various types of boomerangs with multiple functions. Also the magnificent relieves at Queen Hatshepsuit mortuary temple"1400 B.C" represent her soldiers while being hunting in some of punt's jungles "Somalia " and some of them were using their wands.
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The Citadel of Saladin,Cairo
On my visit to Damascus at Syria a month ago I was stunned by the beauty and the charm that Damascus enjoys. Damascus population is around 5million person, but it has an organized traffic, slightly jammed at rush hours. It is looked after by the state and always left clean by its people. Its testy restaurants are extremely irresistible. I was stopped by a unique statue for Sultan Saladin,1160 AD who once ruled Egypt and Syria, stretching a mighty kingdom includes the two invincible cities Cairo and Damascus to hold the flowing Crusade campaigns .Saladin while been confronted by a perfect rival, he caused the crusades more than a defeat .The Arab history praised the tough rival for Saladin's wars ,it described King Richard The Lion-Heart with all glorious features a knight could ever have and mutually the western historians never missed a chance to through the light on Saladin the mighty knight .History mentioned that both of the great warriors had preferred peace than war and they signed the first agreement between the Crusades and the Arabs.


As far as we know about the subject of the great pyramids, the three great ones were cased and covered with carvings and Hieroglyphs and this information was brought to us by ancient travelers from Greece and the neighborhood. Nothing survived from the carvings except the one found on the exterior of the pyramid of king Mycerinus or Menkawra which is around 2600 B.C. That text is incised on rid granite and mentions the date the kind died on it, in addition to some praises and epitaphs. The text determines the death of the king to be on the twenty third day of the third month in winter season" Pert "and wishes for the king a divine burial and the starting of the text is damaged in a way that we miss the chance to read the year count for the reign of the king ,then the text includes the cartouche of king Menkawra.
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Among the scattered objects at Cairo museum's garden is a sarcophagus without any information or a sign. That granite sarcophagus is a repaired one with carvings and relieves represents the Amarna style of art and also has five royal names. While being the sarcophagus badly destroyed , these five names still to be read, from left to right, Nefertiti, Akhenaton "two names", Meryetaton and Meketaton. Also we can see Aton spreads its rays to protect the royal family cartouches.
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