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Foreign Movies in Hollywood of the East


American Italian- Film director born Enselmo Barnilo paid a visit to the Media production City (MPC) (Hollywood of the East), where he toured open air shooting locations studios and Mubarak Studio. He agreed with MPC board chairman to shooting some films in MPC.
On the other hand, the Chinese information minister visited the city also in order to shoot some chinese movies.
 
 
 

Tourist and Sports Festival in Luxor to revive 18 phaoronic games
A tourist and sports festival to revive 18 phaoranic games, created by ancient Egyptians and still in practise, will be organized in Luxor. The games, temple walls in Luxor and Karnak were played amidst large mass celebrations.
The feastival aims at higlighting phaoronic sports through dynamic presentations involving scenery, lighting, scenarios and other elements of artistic production. The presentations, to be shown in the same Pharoanic sportswear, will stress the importance of physical fitness for ancient Egyptians.
The 7-day festival to be publicized through Egyptian press and tourist offices abroad, aims at encouraging tourist inflows to Luxor. According to history, physical fitness was a common concern for ordinary ancient Egyptians as well as a pre-requisite for government posts. Inscriptions on temple walls in Luxor, Bani Hossam and Giza pyramids reflect interest in sports competetions. Many of these games that were played by men and men alike served as the bases of modern games.
These included wrestling, hockey, track and field, rowing, fencing, shooting, column climbing, swimming, hunting, boxing, yoga, archery in addition to rhythmic religious, military and entertainment dancing and community parties.
 
 
 

Aquaculture known by Egyptians since the 3rd Century

It was proved that ancient Egyptians knew aquaculture and used ponds as fish hatcheries since the 3rd Century AD.
An Egyptian excavation mission discovered, nearby Lake Maryot, a rectangular pond made of huge and irregular limestone boulders coated with grey water-resisting mortar. After examining the pond, the mission found out that it was used as fish hatchery.The two gateways on Northern and southern walls allowed motherbroads to enter into the pond for spowning.
The size of opening was suitable for the tilapias in particular. The female tilapia would spawn in the opening lined with parts of clay jars. Then enters the male fish to fertilize the eggs. Later female fish would incubate the fertilized eggs in her mouth. This was found out to be a high-quality method of aquaculture.
 
 
 
 
Nefertaris bust back in Egypt
Egypt has recently taken over from Great Britian the bust of princess Nefertari of 19th Dynasty. The Secretary General of the Supreme Council for Antiquities has recently returned to Cairo in company of the invaluable bust.Following the success of the British Museum in restoring the bust through legal channels. It was returned to Egypt through coordination between British and Egyptian authorities concerned.
Egypt has been keenly closing and restoring earlier stolen antiquities. The bust is areare masterpiece with various inscription and symbols expressive of a distinguished period of phaoronic history will be exhibited in the Egyptian Museum.
Kalabsha Open Museum
Four temples at Kalabsha Island in Aswan are undergoing a major restoration and development process. The Kalabsha temple was fully restored, with the site restructured and suitable rock passage cut out. Gurf Hussein temple,earlier relocated is being rebuilt.
Development works include preparation of the island to house an open museum comprising 36 murals. The development of Kalabsha Island will add one more tourist night for tourists coming to îAbu Simbelî especially after relocating the island marina beyond its harbour.
 
Most prominent fan of Islamic antiquities: a Copt
Dr. Henry Amin Awad, an Egyptian venereologist and dermatologist is the most famous fan of Islamic antiquities. He owns the greatest and rarest collections of antiquities (10000 pieces) dating back to the early first and second century of the Hegira (omayod era).
Most interesting also is that he is a frequent donor to state museums. This latest donation was a collection of rare antiquities to the Alexandria library museum. According to Dr.Awad, he was initially encouraged to take up this habby by his lifelong friend General Muhammad Naguib, Egypt? first president. He attributes his love for Islamic antiquities to the fact that, unlike pharoanic history, the Islamic history, in particular is a moving history. Over time, Dr.Awadh could collect 10000 pieces of high and rare value.

In view of the importance of this collection, the History Department of Washington University in cooperation with a panel of specialists conducted a detailed study of a part of the collection including coins, textiles, woodworks, beads and surgical too ls and drug andfood seals. this collection dates back to the early first to the second century of Hegira (21-133 AH). The 10-year study concluded that those pieces of antiquity had remained neglected in oblivion. The American University in Cairo .will is sue a book about this study of Cario from Dr. Awad his collection.
Dr, Awadh donated, to stste museums a number of great and rare collections of Islamic pieces of antiquity . These comprised matchless is lamic surgical tools, medical papyri, the only medical papyrus in the world, the oldest marriage contract in Islam dating back to 90 AH a tradition of the prophet Mohammad and a part of a manuscript including the story of tarturing al-hussein son of Caliph Ali Iben abi-Taleb and poems of his brother al-Hassan, The latter were donated to the Islamic Art Museum in Cairo.
 
 
 
Random Glossary of Pharaonic Civilization Stones:
The ancient Egyptians used the precious stones that were kept in small bags. From the eastern mines stone were brought such as turquoise, malchite and emerald and from Nubia carnelian, and hematite (bloodstone). Semiprecious stones were used in making amulets and inlaying wood or gold. Stones were available in ancient Egypt especially limestones and the rough stones were used in building internal walls and corners of buildings The Egyptians used the beautiful stones to decorate the main walls or reconstruct magificant temples. Those stones are cut carefully from certain quarries. The yellow sand stones come from Al-Silsla mountain, the white limestones from Tura, grey or red granite from Aswan, red quartry from Red mountain and alabaster from central Egypt. Temple of Ramsis II comprised all these types of stones.
In addition, basalat was used in paving roads. Statues and utensils w eremade from those stones as well as from diarite, marble, serpentine, porphyry and diorite of Kephren statue as well as grey from Hammamat valley. In 4000 B.C, beautiful potteries were from stones by simple tools.
Woods
Ancient Egyptians were also equally well-equipped with wood-cutting tools such as axes, saws, hammers chisels and drills. However, nature did not avail ancient joiners and shipbuilders of better raw materials as Egypt…s soil did not produce fine tember.
Therefore, solid pinewood was imported from Lebanon to make the strongest ships most precious coffins, huge temple tower mosts and gates. Egyptian tember was used in making less important works.
Palm-tree trunks were spilted and used as griders and struts pillars and sycamore trunks used in making plain coffins and simple statues._Moreover, Egyptians used acacia woods in making strong goods-carrying boats and plain wooden works such as boxes, furniture, weapons etc._Since the pyramid-builders epock, joiners knew tongue and groove jornery as well as stone, glass and metal inlaid woodworks. 		 
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