10 Landmarks of Nubia The Land of Gold

Formed as a result of the sedimentation of the Nile silt in the middle of the water to become a green island full of tropical plants, and with 17 basins of subtropical and tropical plants, shrubs, trees and palms, the Botanical Garden of Aswan is one of the greatest research centers in Egypt and is one of the oldest botanical gardens in the world, and has 7 of The rarest collection of plants in the world.
It was inhabited by the Nubians. It was called the Natrun Garden, and later used by the British in the late 19th century as a military base and called Saradar Island, but King Fouad I changed its name again to become King's Island, until the Egyptian revolution in July 1952 to order the late President Gamal Abdel Nasser By calling it the island of plants

One of the most famous Nubian communities in Aswan, located above a sandy slope west of the Nile River, dates back to one hundred years, when the ancient Aswan Reservoir was built.It is characterized by Nubian nature in its picturesque colors.The residents raise crocodiles inside houses, which attracts tourists Elba.

The people of the village have experienced their own efforts, and the idea came to create Nubian houses called (Anna Kato) and means (our house) Nubian-style, and the establishment of cafeterias and crocodile basins, where tourists roam in the village without harassment, and once entering the village feels safe, where there is no Any security person in the village, everyone considers the tourist guest, no one closes his door on him day or night, because it is inherently safe and enough shop owner or bazaar to put a piece of cloth on the door of his shop not to hide his goods, but to protect it from dust and go to his house reassured on his goods and money

It contains the temple and ruins of elephants flooded by the Nile River, so it is one of the most important islands of Nubia, and these relics were transferred and reassembled again half a kilometer from the island, which provides many ongoing performances of sound and light in all different languages. The name Philae or Velay refers to the Greek language, which means (beloved) or (granules) The Arabic name is the presence of the presence of the myth of Anas found in the stories of the thousand and one nights and the ancient Egyptian name and the Coptic is Belak or Belach and means the limit or end because it was the last border Egypt in the South. The worship group was dedicated to the worship of the goddess Isis, but the island contained the temples of Hathor, Amenhotep and other temples

Hessa Island is located east of the city of Aswan in Egypt. In Egypt, the island is currently inhabited by eight tribes

Previously, the island was a burial place for the priests who worked on the island, and the neighboring island of Philae, and the pharaohs extracted stones and timber until the construction of the pyramids, and they traveled across the river to transport these materials to where they want, and the island was filled with many monuments and inscriptions Pharaonic

The Mausoleum of Aga Khan is housed in the Mausoleum of the Aga Khan III of the Sultan Aga Khan III, who died in 1957.
The mausoleum is located in the city of Aswan overlooking the Nile, and was built in the style of Fatimid tombs in Cairo built of pink limestone.
The Mausoleum of the Aga Khan Aswan is one of the most important tourist attractions in historical Egypt, which reflects the distinctive urban style of the Fatimid rule of the country

Columns Established in 1997, the Nubian Museum is located in one of the most beautiful archaeological areas in Aswan.

The architectural design of the museum is characterized by the Nubian architectural style, which was inspired by the designers of the Pharaonic tombs, and won the building the most beautiful architectural building in the world in 2001.
Wandering inside this partially exposed museum, he will find himself wandering in a prehistoric cave, with its carved and painted rocks, ancient Egyptian statues, obelisks and, as well as an entire Nubian house

One of the Nile islands of Egypt is located in the city of Aswan, an area of ​​about 1500 meters long and 500 meters wide, the majority of the population of Nubians. There is a Movenpick hotel, agricultural areas mostly palm, Aswan Museum, and remains of stone temples of different eras.

The temples of the island that the oldest construction work on the island took place in the late prehistoric times and extended until the early Islamic era, that is, it includes the history of ancient Egypt in all ages and even the Greco-Roman era. Satat is the goddess of the region, especially the flood gods. The first temple belonged to the first and second dynasties, ie, in the range of 2800 because, the second temple to the beginning of the sixth dynasty, which is in the range of 2250 because, the third built by Senusert I in the 1950s, and the fourth and last built by Queen Hatshepsut in the year 1480 because

The dome of the Hawa is the tomb of the nobles of the ancient era, and was named after the name "Dome of Ali bin Hawa", which rises 180 meters.

These tombs, which connect between antiquity through medieval and modern times, have their own character in terms of design, which starts with an ascending sand corridor until reaching the entrance to the cemetery, which in turn leads to a hall with a number of granite columns, while the walls are decorated with wonderful colored drawings that tell The daily life of the Egyptian man; from cultivating the land and sowing seeds, plowing and harvesting, and in the middle of the hall a corridor leads to the burial chamber.

This exhibition was recently opened in 2001 to include photographs of the Nubian sites before the rescue, which includes about 180 images taken from the missions that have been working in Nubia since 1990, which was able to monitor the history of Nubia and compile its cultural heritage

The exhibition is entitled "Sunken Nubia" organized by the museum administration in cooperation with the Scientific Center of the Italian Embassy in Cairo. It includes 250 pictures, some dating back to the nineteenth century. The artist, Farouk Hosni, will open this exhibition during the coming days. Wadi Halfa (Sudanese Nubia).
Some of the most beautiful and rare pictures recorded by the joint mission of Harvard University and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts from 1907 to 1908.

One of the most beautiful things about the effects of Nubia was written by the English archaeologist Robert Curzon in 1834 that every archaeological site in Egypt is interesting.. But the place nicknamed the ...more