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Egypt’s agricultural production had swelled at an incredible rate and kept up with itself until the early 1900s. In the early 1900s, environmental and human factors both lowered production rates. [14] After the prior “boom” of the cotton industry, the population began to increase quickly and consistently. The economy did not follow suit. [15]
In May 1898, the Egyptian Government sold the fleet of the "Poste Khedivieh Administration", as well as certain ship repair facilities at Suez and Alexandria, to the British merchants Allen, Alderson and Company of Alexandria and Frank Reddaway of Birmingham, acting on behalf of the new British company Khedivial Mail Steamship and Graving Dock Company Limited, established with a capital of £ ...
A man's suit of clothes, in the sense of a lounge, office, business, dinner or dress suit, is a set of garments which are crafted from the same cloth. This article discusses the history of the lounge suit, often called a business suit when featuring dark colors and a conservative cut.
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Most of Egypt at one time in the previous two centuries has or had a traditional nose piercing, regardless of region or ethnicity, with the exception of Siwi Amazigh women. The Upper Egyptian name for a nose ring, khuzam, dates back to at least the 1830s. 19th century nose rings were typically an inch to an inch and a half diameter, made of ...
One creation that was specific to ancient Egypt was the gorgerine, an assembly of metal discs worn on the chest, either over bare skin or over a shirt, and attached in the back. Ancient Egyptian cosmetic set from c. 1550–1458 BC, featuring, from left to right, a kohl tube, a razor, a pair of tweezers, a whetstone, and a mirror 18th Dynasty ...
Because of the palace's inability to cover the regional responsibilities throughout Egypt, unpaid workers looked to local institutions to fill the power vacuum. The Deir el-Medina artisans looked to the high priest of Amun and the mayor of western Thebes, with access to untapped storerooms in Karnak that had not yet been depleted, as new patrons.
Tarkhan dress (3102 BCE), possible origin of Egyptian Jellabiya, Petrie Museam Statue of a Seated Man in a Cloak (Possible origin of Jellabya), Middle Kingdom. The roots of the Jalabeya can be traced back to Ancient Egypt, where similar long, loose-fitting garments were worn by both men and women. [5]