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Egyptian style, as in a cemetery's 181-year-old gates, is still influencing New Orleans architecture ... which thousands of motorists zip past every day at Canal Street and City Park Avenue.
Archaeologists found the “city’s streets flanked by houses,” with intact walls up to 10 feet high and “rooms filled with tools of daily life … left by the ancient residents as if it were ...
What was with the 1920s? One day they discovered King Tut’s tomb, the next day every city in America had to have a movie theater that looked like a ritzy Theban temple. The author embarks on a ...
Pharaohs’ treasures, Roman ruins, medieval mosques—see it all in this timeless city. ... Drop by the hundred-year-old café Fishawi for its Egyptian-style coffee and sepia-steeped ambience.
In the Underwater Egyptian City of Thônis-Heracleion, ... Archaeologists found a similar style of vessel from 235 B.C. called the Masala Ship, in Sicily in 1971.
Shriners brought the Masonic organization’s Egyptian-inspired tradition to Kansas City in 1924. Thousands came for the convention and saw sphinxes, obelisks and banners. The decorations were ...
IAA Bronze Age-expert Eli Yannai dates the cave to the Late Bronze Age, before the biblical Exodus from Egypt, when the city of Yavneh – then still in Canaan – was under the control of the 19th ...