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- Image 1The Al-Hakim Mosque in Cairo, of Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, the sixth caliph, as renovated by Dawoodi Bohra (from Egypt)
- Image 4Women in Cairo wear face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic in Egypt in March 2020. (from Egypt)
- Image 6A tomb relief depicts workers plowing the fields, harvesting the crops, and threshing the grain under the direction of an overseer, painting in the tomb of Nakht. (from Ancient Egypt)
- Image 7Anubis, the god associated with mummification and burial rituals, attending to a mummy (from Ancient Egypt)
- Image 10Napoleon defeated the Mamluk troops in the Battle of the Pyramids, 21 July 1798, painted by Lejeune. (from Egypt)
- Image 12The pyramids of Giza are among the most recognizable symbols of ancient Egyptian civilization. (from Ancient Egypt)
- Image 14Four colossal statues of Ramesses II flank the entrance of his temple Abu Simbel. (from Ancient Egypt)
- Image 17Muhammad Ali was the founder of the Muhammad Ali dynasty and the first Khedive of Egypt and Sudan. (from Egypt)
- Image 18Naguib Mahfouz, the first Arabic-language writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (from Egypt)
- Image 20Frontispiece of Description de l'Égypte, published in 38 volumes between 1809 and 1829 (from Ancient Egypt)
- Image 23Tutankhamun's burial mask is one of the major attractions of the Egyptian Museum of Cairo. (from Egypt)
- Image 24A figure wearing the red crown of Lower Egypt, most probably Amenemhat II or Senwosret II. It functioned as a divine guardian for the imiut; the divine kilt, suggests that the statuette was not merely a representation of the living ruler. (from Ancient Egypt)
- Image 25Egypt's topography (from Egypt)
- Image 26Painted limestone relief of a noble member of Ancient Egyptian society during the New Kingdom (from Ancient Egypt)
- Image 27Egyptians celebrated feasts and festivals, accompanied by music and dance. (from Ancient Egypt)
- Image 29The Book of the Dead was a guide to the deceased's journey in the afterlife. (from Ancient Egypt)
- Image 31Hunting game birds and plowing a field, tomb of Nefermaat and his wife Itet (c. 2700 BC) (from Ancient Egypt)
- Image 32The Ptolemaic Queen Cleopatra VII and her son by Julius Caesar, Caesarion, at the Temple of Dendera (from Egypt)
- Image 34The Cairo Metro (line 2) (from Egypt)
- Image 37Ancient Egyptians playing music (from Egypt)
- Image 38The Edwin Smith surgical papyrus describes anatomy and medical treatments, written in hieratic, c. 1550 BC. (from Ancient Egypt)
- Image 39The preserved Temple of Horus at Edfu is a model of Egyptian architecture. (from Ancient Egypt)
- Image 41Egypt is the eighth most water stressed country in the world. (from Egypt)
- Image 42(from Egypt)Governorates of Egypt1. Matrouh2. Alexandria3. Beheira4. Kafr El Sheikh5. Dakahlia6. Damietta7. Port Said8. North Sinai9. Gharbia10. Monufia11. Qalyubia12. Sharqia13. Ismailia14. Giza15. Faiyum16. Cairo17. Suez18. South Sinai19. Beni Suef20. Minya21. New Valley22. Asyut23. Red Sea24. Sohag25. Qena26. Luxor27. Aswan
- Image 43Measuring and recording the harvest, from the tomb of Menna at Thebes (Eighteenth Dynasty) (from Ancient Egypt)
- Image 46Lower-class occupations (from Ancient Egypt)
- Image 47The Fayum mummy portraits epitomize the meeting of Egyptian and Roman cultures. (from Ancient Egypt)
- Image 48Green irrigated land along the Nile amidst the desert and in the delta (from Egypt)
- Image 50Wooden figures of soldiers, from the tomb of nomarch Mesehti (11th dynasty) (from Ancient Egypt)
- Image 51Pharaohs' tombs were provided with vast quantities of wealth, such as the golden mask from the mummy of Tutankhamun. (from Ancient Egypt)
- Image 52Seagoing ship of an expedition to Punt, from a relief of Hatshepsut's Mortuary temple, Deir el-Bahari (from Ancient Egypt)
- Image 54The Giza Necropolis is the oldest of the ancient Wonders and the only one still in existence. (from Egypt)
- Image 55The well preserved Temple of Isis from Philae is an example of Egyptian architecture and architectural sculpture. (from Ancient Egypt)
- Image 57Glassmaking was a highly developed art. (from Ancient Egypt)
- Image 59Protesters from the Third Square movement, which supported neither the former Morsi government nor the Armed Forces, 31 July 2013 (from Egypt)
- Image 60Egyptian honour guard soldiers during a visit of U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen (from Egypt)
- Image 62Al-Azhar Park is listed as one of the world's sixty great public spaces by the Project for Public Spaces. (from Egypt)
- Image 63Arabic calligraphy has seen its golden age in Cairo. This adornment and beads being sold in Muizz Street (from Culture of Egypt)
- Image 65The Temple of Dendur, completed by 10 BC, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City) (from Ancient Egypt)
- Image 67Early tomb painting from Nekhen, c. 3500 BC, Naqada, possibly Gerzeh culture (from Ancient Egypt)
- Image 68Tourists riding an Arabian camel in front of Pyramid of Khafre. The Giza Necropolis is one of Egypt's main tourist attractions. (from Egypt)
- Image 71The halls of Karnak Temple are built with rows of large columns. (from Ancient Egypt)
- Image 73The pharaoh was usually depicted wearing symbols of royalty and power. (from Ancient Egypt)
- Image 74Celebrating the signing of the 1978 Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin, Jimmy Carter, Anwar Sadat (from Egypt)
- Image 75An offshore platform in the Darfeel Gas Field (from Egypt)
- Image 76Rectangular fishpond with ducks and lotus planted round with date palms and fruit trees, Tomb of Nebamun, Thebes, 18th Dynasty (from Ancient Egypt)
- Image 78Coffin of Khnumnakht in 12th dynasty style, with palace facade, columns of inscriptions, and two Wedjat eyes (from Ancient Egypt)
- Image 80Egypt's population density (people per km2) (from Egypt)
- Image 86Egypt under Muhammad Ali dynasty (from Egypt)
- Image 88Ruins of Deir el-Medina (from Ancient Egypt)
- Image 89Prominent Egyptian dissident Alaa Abd El-Fattah was sentenced to five years of imprisonment in December 2021. (from Egypt)
- Image 90Smoke rises from oil tanks beside the Suez Canal hit during the initial Anglo-French assault on Egypt, 5 November 1956. (from Egypt)
- Image 92Smart Village, a business district established in 2001 to facilitate the growth of high-tech businesses (from Egypt)
- Image 96Egyptian literacy rate among the population aged 15 years and older by UNESCO Institute of Statistics (from Egypt)
- Image 97Change in per capita GDP of Egypt, 1820–2018. Figures are inflation-adjusted to 2011 International dollars. (from Egypt)
- Image 99Statues of two pharaohs of Egypt's Twenty-Fifth Dynasty and several other Kushite kings, Kerma Museum (from Ancient Egypt)
- Image 100The gods Osiris, Anubis, and Horus in the tomb of Horemheb (KV57) in the Valley of the Kings (from Ancient Egypt)
- Image 102The Rosetta Stone (c. 196 BC) enabled linguists to begin deciphering ancient Egyptian scripts. (from Ancient Egypt)