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Egypt
Cave of Swimmers
In the 1930s, Hungarian raider, aviator, and desert explorer László Almásy discovered a cave with unique rock drawings from about 8,000 years ago at the Hadabat al-Jilf al-Kabir plateau. It depicted people swimming but the stony hills in the southwest of Egypt are in a completely inhospitable area - there are no human settlements here because there are practically no water intakes. The cave was then called The Cave of Swimmers. 1)
Anthony the Hermit
St. Anthony the Great, also called Anthony the Hermit, is the patron saint of all Christian nuns and monks, and it is to him that the monastic movement is attributed. The saint, who lived between 251 and 356, came from a fairly wealthy family living in Lower Egypt. After the death of his parents, he sold their property and went to the desert, where for several decades, until his death, he lived in a cave, leading a very ascetic life. When he died in 356, his followers built a monastery dedicated to him about 1.2 m from the cave. 2)
Temple of Hathor
The best-preserved temple from ancient times in all of Egypt is located in the central part of the country, in the village of Dandarah, situated on the Nile. Since the time of Pharaoh Cheops (XXVI century BC) developed here a center of worship Hathor, the Egyptian goddess of heaven. 3)
Siwa Oasis
The Siwa Oasis, located in the northwest of Egypt, almost right on the border with Libya, is one of several sites being considered for determining the resting place of Alexander the Great, also known as Alexander of Macedon. 4)
Pharaoh with a passport
In the 1970s, the condition of the mummy of the pharaoh Ramses II on daily display at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo deteriorated so much that it had to be restored. The Egyptians did not have the means to do so, so they reached an agreement with the French authorities, who offered to subject the mummy to comprehensive conservation at the Parisian Museum of Man. Since the French law required that every person entering France (alive or dead) must have a passport, the Egyptian side issued a travel document to the pharaoh, who had been dead for over three thousand years. It was accompanied by a picture of the mummified face of Ramses II, in the column “date of birth” was written 1303 BC, and where the question of occupation was asked, it was given “(deceased) king”. 5)