Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
King Hussein of Jordan: A Political Life (Yale University Press; 2008) excerpt; Bradshaw, Tancred. Britain and Jordan: imperial strategy, King Abdullah I and the Zionist movement (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012). El-Anis, Imad H. (2011). Jordan and the United States : the political economy of trade and economic reform in the Middle East. London ...
The Tarkhan Dress, named for the Tarkhan cemetery south of Cairo in Egypt where it was excavated in 1913, is an over 5000 year old linen garment that was confirmed as the world's oldest piece of woven clothing. [2] [1] The dress coded UC28614B is currently in the collection of the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology. [3]
In ancient Egypt, linen was a common textile as it helped people to be comfortable in the subtropical heat. Plant dyes could be applied to clothing but the clothing was usually left in its natural color. [1] Wool was known, but considered impure. [2] Only the wealthy wore animal fibers that were the object of taboos. [2]
This page was last edited on 15 October 2019, at 23:05 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
With desalination, agricultural jobs for 1 million people within Jordan, Egypt and Israel would be sustainable. It was reported that Jordan agreed to administer between 17% and 21% of the West Bank, to facilitate canal construction with international assistance, which would increase Jordan's area to about 70% of the 1918 Palestine.
Egypt and Jordan do not share a land border. They are separated by the Gulf of Aqaba and the Negev Desert to the east and southwest, with the latter's border with Jordan being 335 km (97 km with the West Bank and 238 km with Israel), while the border with Egypt is 265 km (including 11 km with the Gaza Strip and 254 km with Israel).
In addition it was due to visit Aqaba in Jordan for a 14-hour day, allowing tours to Petra, ... Port Said and Safaga in Egypt, Aqaba in Jordan and the two Omani ports of Salalah and Muscat.
The Greeks founded new cities in the area of modern-day Jordan, including Umm Qays, Jerash and Amman. Ptolemy II Philadelphus, the Macedonian ruler of Egypt, who occupied and rebuilt the city, named it "Philadelphia" (Ancient Greek: Φιλαδέλφεια), evoking "brotherly love" in Greek. The name was given as an adulation to his own ...