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Circa 100 BC Ptolemaic Fort of Tal Abou Sayfi, South of Qantara Sharq city. [7] 200 AD Roman Fort of Tal Abou Sayfi, South of Qantara Sharq city (by Emperor Maximinus Thrax). [7] Unknown time Roman Lahfen castle near Al-Arish. [7] Saint Catherine's Monastery fortification, Mount Sinai, Sinai Peninsula. 640 AD Farma citadel. [7] [29] [32]
This is a list of properties and historic districts in Kentucky that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. There are listings in all of Kentucky's 120 counties . The locations of National Register properties and districts (at least for all showing latitude and longitude coordinates below), may be seen in an online map by ...
This is a complete list of National Historic Landmarks in Kentucky. [1] There are 33 such landmarks in Kentucky; one landmark has had its designation withdrawn. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap
Crab Orchard, Kentucky: 1787–1794 Residence Oldest brick house in Kentucky Millspring: Georgetown, Kentucky: 1789 Residence Back ell is the oldest part of the house, constructed by Rev. Elijah Craig: Jacob Eversole Cabin: Perry County, Kentucky: ca. 1789–1804 Residence Oldest house in eastern Kentucky Zachary Taylor House: Louisville ...
It is shaped like an inclined cylinder or disk, with the outer walls made of granite carved with characters from all the world's alphabets. [105] In the tourist center of Sharm El Sheikh, the Al Sahaba Mosque, completed in 2017, is a fusion of Ottoman, Mamluk, and Fatimid styles. It was designed pro bono by Egyptian architect Fouad Tawfik Hafez.
As chosen by Egyptian rulers, many of the tombs found throughout time were located along the Nile river. [16] The structural exterior regarding Mastabas varies throughout history but there is a noticeable evolution in successive Egyptian dynasties. The mastabas of the First Egyptian Dynasty would be created through the use of stepped bricks. [17]
Cairo was founded as a palace-city in 969 by the Fatimid Caliphate. Jawhar al-Siqilli, the Fatimid general who led the conquest of Egypt, oversaw the construction of the city's original walls, which were built of mudbrick. [1] [2] According to later medieval sources, these first city walls, which had a roughly rectangular outline, had eight gates.
A German archaeological expedition digging in Akhenaten's deserted city of Akhetaten, known today as Amarna, found a ruined house and studio complex (labeled P47.1-3) [1] in early December 1912; [2] the building was identified as that of Thutmose based on an ivory horse blinker found in a rubbish pit in the courtyard inscribed with his name and ...