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Pharos was a small island located on the western edge of the Nile Delta.In 332 BC, Alexander the Great founded the city of Alexandria on an isthmus opposite Pharos. . Alexandria and Pharos were later connected by a mole [6] spanning more than 1,200 metres (0.75 miles), which was called the Heptastadion ("seven stadia"—a stadion was a Greek unit of length measuring approximate
'Mound of Shards') [1] is a historical archaeological site located in Alexandria, Egypt, and is considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Middle Ages. [2] The necropolis consists of a series of Alexandrian tombs, statues and archaeological objects of the Pharaonic funerary cult with Hellenistic and early Imperial Roman influences. Due to the ...
The Heptastadion (Greek: Ὲπταστάδιον) was a giant causeway, often referred to as a mole [1] or a dyke built by the people of Alexandria, Egypt in the 3rd century BC during the Ptolemaic period. [2]
The Valley of the Kings, [a] also known as the Valley of the Gates of the Kings, [b] [2] is an area in Egypt where, for a period of nearly 500 years from the Eighteenth Dynasty to the Twentieth Dynasty, rock-cut tombs were excavated for pharaohs and powerful nobles under the New Kingdom of ancient Egypt.
He also introduced the practice of having the tomb and funerary temple in separate locations rather than in the same location. [134] It is possible that Amenhotep I and his mother Ahmose-Nefertari founded the tomb workers village of Deir-el-Medina, the two were honored as gods by later residents.
The French Crusader Robert of Clari, in his narrative on the sack of the city by the Crusaders in 1204, calls the church la Sainte Chapelle ("the Holy Chapel"). [5] The chapel itself avoided plunder during the sack: Boniface of Montferrat moved swiftly to occupy the area of the Boukoleon Palace , and the relics passed safely on to the new Latin ...
Location Status Image Golden Gate: Sha'ar HaRahamim שער הרחמים "Gate Of Mercy" Bab al-Dhahabi / al-Zahabi, "Golden Gate" باب الذهبي A double gate, last sealed in 1541. In Arabic also known as the Gate of Eternal Life. [citation needed] In Arabic each door has its own name:
Figure 1: Physics of X-ray fluorescence in a schematic representation. When materials are exposed to short- wavelength X-rays or to gamma rays, ionization of their component atoms may take place. Ionization consists of the ejection of one or more electrons from the atom, and may occur if the atom is exposed to radiation with an energy greater ...