There is no agreement on when and where this Urheimat existed, though the language is generally believed to have originated somewhere in or near the region stretching from the Levant / Near East to the area between the Eastern Sahara and the Horn of Africa, including Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan.

In 1167, Nur ad-Din sent Shirkuh back to Egypt and Amalric once again followed him, establishing a camp near Cairo ; Shawar again allied with Amalric and a treaty was signed with the caliph al-Adid himself.

Anthony was born in Cooma near Herakleopolis Magna in Lower Egypt in 251 to wealthy landowner parents.

In Egypt, canals date back at least to the time of Pepi I Meryre ( reigned 2332 – 2283 BC ), who ordered a canal built to bypass the cataract on the Nile near Aswan.

He was born c. 376, in the small town of Theodosios, Egypt, near modern day El-Mahalla El-Kubra.

* St. Mina ( Menas ) Coptic Orthodox Monastery in Mariut, near Alexandria, Egypt

* 1940 – World War II: Operation Compass – British and Indian troops under the command of Major-General Richard O ' Connor attack Italian forces near Sidi Barrani in Egypt.

Sultan Qutuz of Egypt eventually defeated the Mongols in the Battle of Ain Jalut ( near Ein Harod ) and his successor ( and assassin ), Baibars, eliminated the last Crusader Kingdom of Acre in 1291, thereby ending the Crusades.

Herodotus, in Book II of his Histories, describes as a " labyrinth " a building complex in Egypt, " near the place called the City of Crocodiles ," that he considered to surpass the pyramids in its astonishing ambition:

* 1801 – The Battle of Alexandria is fought between British and French forces near the ruins of Nicopolis in Egypt.

After studying seven years with the Elder Palaemon, Pachomius set out to lead the life of a hermit near St. Anthony of Egypt, whose practices he imitated until, according to legend, he heard a voice in Tabennisi that told him to build a dwelling for the hermits to come to.

* 5 June 1967 to 10 June 1975 — Suez Canal is blocked by Egypt, following a war with Israel ; it becomes the front line during the ensuing War of Attrition and the 1973 war, remaining closed to international shipping, until general agreement was near.

* Taba International Airport ( IATA code ), near Taba, Egypt

* 28 November Karam Fathi Shehada al-Kurd, 14, of Rafah, Gaza, died of head wounds sustained Nov. 23 from IDF gunfire during a demonstration near the Rafah border crossing with Egypt.

The Qabr-er-Rumia -- best known by its French name, Tombeau de la Chrétienne, tradition making it the burial-place of Florinda, la Cava Rumía, the beautiful and unfortunate daughter of Count Julian -- is near Kolea, and is known to be the tomb of the Mauretanian king Juba II and of his wife Cleopatra Selene, daughter of Mark Antony and Cleopatra, queen of Egypt.

However, he did not see the same success in Egypt, for a Palmyrene underground, led by Timagenes, undermined Probus, defeated his army, and killed him in a battle near the modern city of Cairo in the late summer of 270.

By around 20, 000 BC, asparagus was being eaten near Aswan in Egypt.

File: HORUS GOLDENHEAD. jpg | Horus, patron deity of Hierakonpolis ( near Edfu ), the predynastic capital of Upper Egypt.

Kings and commoners from across Egypt built chapels, which served as cenotaphs, near the processional route.

Gamal's father, Abdel Nasser Hussein, was born on 11 July 1888 in Beni Mur, a village near the city of Asyut in southern Egypt, to Hussein Khalil Sultan.

Despite constantly changing schools, Nasser spent most of his spare time reading, particularly in 1933 when his uncle happened to live near the National Library of Egypt.

* The Monastery of St. Shenouda the Archimandrite ( White Monastery ) near Sohag ( Egypt ) is built.

The Battle of Abukir or Aboukir refers to three battles fought near Abukir, Egypt, on the Mediterranean coast west of the Nile delta:

Set was worshipped at the temples of Ombos ( Nubt near Naqada ) and Ombos ( Nubt near Kom Ombo ), at Oxyrhynchus in upper Egypt, and also in part of the Fayyum area.

The Great Sphinx and the pyramids of Giza are among the most recognizable symbols of the civilization of ancient Egypt.

Cairo is also associated with Ancient Egypt due to its proximity to the ancient cities of Memphis, Giza and Fustat which are nearby to the Great Sphinx and the pyramids of Giza.

The Great Pyramid of Giza ( also known as the Pyramid of Khufu or the Pyramid of Cheops ) is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis bordering what is now El Giza, Egypt.

The Red Pyramid of Egypt ( c. 26th century BC ), named for the light crimson hue of its exposed granite surfaces, is the third largest of Egyptian pyramids.

Others, however, detect management-like-thought back to Sumerian traders and to the builders of the pyramids of ancient Egypt.

For thousands of years, the largest structures on Earth were pyramids — first the Red Pyramid in the Dashur Necropolis and then the Great Pyramid of Khufu, both of Egypt, the latter the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still remaining.

As of 2008, some 135 pyramids have been discovered in Egypt.

While pyramids are associated with Egypt, the nation of Sudan has 220 extant pyramids, the most numerous in the world.

The ancient pyramids of Egypt

Smaller pyramids were also built by the Nubians who ruled Egypt in the Late Period, though their pyramids had steeper sides.

The pyramids of Kush, also known as Nubian Pyramids, have different characteristics than the pyramids of Egypt.

These buildings were not constructed in the same manner as the pyramids in Egypt.

This has created some debate about whether or not these " pyramids " are actually older than Egypt, which is part of the Black Athena controversy.

There are many pyramids all over Sudan, attracting many tourist from Syria, Egypt, Morocco, Jordan and other Arab countries.

In the Old Kingdom of Egypt, the Egyptian pyramids were constructed and would remain the tallest and largest human constructions for thousands of years.

The great pyramids in Egypt were actually genetic repositories, preserving the DNA of the survivors.

Its unique structure plays on the city's namesake in Egypt, known for its ancient pyramids.

Electrum was used for the earliest metal coins, and as early as the third millennium BC in Old Kingdom Egypt, sometimes as an exterior coating to the pyramidions atop ancient Egyptian pyramids and obelisks.

The mounds were built by hunter-gatherer societies in the Middle Archaic period, perhaps as early as 4500 BC, more than a thousand years before the pyramids of Egypt were begun.

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