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The Nile after the ″dragon storm″ in March 2020. Every year, sometime from March to May, an extremely hot, dry and dusty wind blows from the south or the southwest. This wind is called khamasīn. When the flow of dry air continuously blows over vast desert regions, it picks up fine sand and dust particles and finally results in a dusty wind ...
Egypt's climate is hot, dry, and dominated by desert. Egypt has a hot summer from May to October and a mild winter from November to April. In the desert, summer temperatures can range from a high of 43°C (109°F) during the day to 7°C (45°F) at night and winter temperatures range from 18°C (64°F) to 0°C (32°F).
The Nile flood at Cairo c. 1830.. Current understanding of the earliest development of the Egyptian calendar remains speculative. A tablet from the reign of the First Dynasty pharaoh Djer (c. 3000 BC) was once thought to indicate that the Egyptians had already established a link between the heliacal rising of Sirius (Ancient Egyptian: Spdt or Sopdet, "Triangle"; Ancient Greek: Σῶθις ...
The yellow and blue landscape of the Great Sand Sea in Egypt’s western desert is considered one of the world’s best spots for sandboarding, while Egypt’s Sinai desert hosts steep dunes such ...
Cairo, the capital of Egypt, is a bustling metropolis that sits on the banks of the River Nile.Home to an estimated 22 million people, the city has more recently expanded into a sprawling jumble ...
November 10 is the 314th day of the year ... although the official founding date is November 23, ... Sultan of Egypt (b. c. 1222)
Egypt has received United States foreign aid since 1979 (an average of $2.2 billion per year) and is the third-largest recipient of such funds from the United States following the Iraq war. Egypt's economy mainly relies on these sources of income: tourism, remittances from Egyptians working abroad and revenues from the Suez Canal. [213]
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