Learn more Egypt Country Facts here.6 - Sydney Opera House in Australia Top 10 Famous Landmarks Sydney Opera House and Harbour BridgeThe Sydney Opera House, built in Australia’s biggest city, is famous for its roof’s architecture resembling shells or sails. The opera house was designed by...
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His international team currently runs the Giza Plateau Mapping Project, excavating and mapping the ancient city of the builders of the Giza pyramid complex, which dates to the fourth dynasty of Egypt. He discovered that Pyramid G1-a, one of the subsidiary pyramids of ...
This Neolithic site dates back to 3200 BC and thus precedes the pyramids of Egypt. It was only in 1850 that it was discovered under a sand dune in an extremely remarkable state of preservation. The people who built these houses were ingenious: the houses had comforts such as beds, dressers...
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3. Ancient antiquities are still being found.Less than two weeks ago, a nearly 3000-year-old statue was found under mud in a Cairo slum. The 26-foot (that’s nearly three stories tall) yet-to-be-identified statue made international headlines, but according to Khaled al-Anani, Egypt’s...