The Great Pyramid of Giza ( c. 2580 BC ) contains a huge granite sarcophagus fashioned of " Red Aswan Granite.

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.

At, it is the sixth-largest pyramid in the world behind the Great Pyramid of Giza, Khafre's Pyramid, the Luxor Hotel, the Red Pyramid and the Bent Pyramid.

Sekhmet is also featured in The Red Pyramid written by Rick Riordan as a minor antagonist.

Using more stones than any other pharaoh, he built three pyramids: a now collapsed pyramid in Meidum, the Bent Pyramid at Dahshur, and the Red Pyramid, at North Dahshur.

It is 321 feet ( 98m, about 32 stories ) tall and has base sides of 591 ft ; it is by some measures the sixth largest pyramid in the world behind the Great Pyramid of Giza ( 456 ft ), Khafre's Pyramid ( 448 ft ), Luxor Hotel ( 348 ft ), the Red Pyramid ( 341 ft ), and the Bent Pyramid ( 332 ft ).

The Bent Pyramid and the Red Pyramid were constructed during the reign of Pharaoh Sneferu ( 2613-2589 BCE ), father of Khufu of the Old Kingdom.

The Red Pyramid is the world's first true smooth-sided pyramid.

Sneferu's Red Pyramid

Sneferu's Red Pyramid

The south face of the Red Pyramid

Entry to the Red Pyramid

The Red Pyramid, also called the North Pyramid, is the largest of the three major pyramids located at the Dahshur necropolis.

Local residents refer to the Red Pyramid as el-haram el-watwat, meaning the Bat Pyramid.

These measures plus the improvement in Israel's relations with Egypt and Jordan, the renunciation of terrorism by the Palestine Liberation Organization, the on-going peace talks between the PLO and Israel, the collapse of the communist states in East Europe, which reduced the scope for sanctuaries for terrorists, and the more cautious attitude of countries such as Libya and Syria after the U. S. declared them State-sponsors of international terrorism, the collapse of ideological terrorist groups such as the Red Army Faction and the tightening of civil aviation security measures by all countries have arrested and reversed the steep upward movement of hijackings.

The Ababda or Ababde – the Gebadei of Pliny, and possibly the Troglodytes of other classical writers – are nomads living in the area between the Nile and the Red Sea, in the vicinity of Aswan in Egypt.

The Ababda extend from the Nile at Aswan to the Red Sea, and reach northward to the Qena-Quseir road, thus occupying the southern border of Egypt east of the Nile.

* Joshua led the Israelites out of the wilderness into the Promised Land, crossing the Jordan River as if on dry ground ( 3: 16 ), just as Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt through the Red Sea, which they crossed as if on dry land ( Ex.

Egypt has coastlines on both the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea.

Egypt has fairly good relations with Sudan, its southern neighbor, although it has a land dispute with Sudan over the Hala ' ib Triangle, a small area of land on the Egypt-Sudan border on the Red Sea coast.

Egypt currently disputes sovereignty of the Hala ' ib Triangle with Sudan, an area of land located on the Red Sea coast, between the political borders ( at the 22nd circle of latitude ) and the administrative boundary between the two countries.

* 1967 – Egypt imposes a blockade and siege of the Red Sea coast of Israel.

After the Ten Plagues, Moses led the Exodus of the Israelites out of Egypt and across the Red Sea, after which they based themselves at Mount Sinai, where Moses received the Ten Commandments.

The hostage takers demanded the release and safe passage to Egypt of 234 Palestinians and non-Arabs jailed in Israel, along with two German terrorists held by the German penitentiary system, Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof, who were founders of the German Red Army Faction.

Bomhard ( 2008 ) suggests a differentiation of Proto-Nostratic by 8, 000 BCE, the beginning of the Neolithic Revolution in the Levant, over a territory spanning the entire Fertile Crescent and beyond into the Caucasus ( Proto-Kartvelian ), Egypt and along the Red Sea to the Horn of Africa ( Proto-Afroasiatic ), the Iranian Plateau ( Proto-Elamo-Dravidian ) and into Central Asia ( Proto-Eurasiatic, to be further subdivided by 5, 000 BCE into Proto-Indo-European, Proto-Uralic and Proto-Altaic ).

* 1869 – In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated.

Selim I established Ottoman rule in Egypt, and created a naval presence on the Red Sea.

Elsewhere in Northeast Africa, the Periplus of the Red Sea reports that Somalis, through their northern ports such as Zeila and Berbera, were trading frankincense and other items with the inhabitants of the Arabian Peninsula well before the arrival of Islam as well as with then Roman-controlled Egypt.

It is bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the northeast, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the east, South Sudan to the south, the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west and Libya to the northwest.

The Suez Canal ( ), also known by the nickname " The Highway to India ", is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea.

The legendary Sesostris ( likely either Pharaoh Senusret II or Senusret III of the Twelfth dynasty of Egypt ) is suggested to have perhaps started work on an ancient canal joining the River Nile with the Red Sea ( 1897 BC – 1839 BC ).

Next comes the Tyro tribe and, on the Red Sea, the harbour of the Daneoi, from which Sesostris, king of Egypt, intended to carry a ship-canal to where the Nile flows into what is known as the Delta ; this is a distance of over 60 miles.

On page 47, Asterix offers the future assistance of the Gaulish people should Egypt consider a passage linking the Red Sea and the Mediterranean.

* May 23 – Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping, blockading Israel's southern port of Eilat, and Israel's entire Red Sea coastline.

* November 17 – In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated in an elaborate ceremony.

* January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 604 crashes into the Red Sea off the coast of Egypt, killing all 148 aboard.

The rods of both Moses and Aaron were endowed with miraculous power during the Plagues of Egypt ( Exodus 7: 17, 8: 5, 8: 16-17, 9: 23, and 10: 13 ); God commanded Moses to raise his rod over the Red Sea when it was to be parted ( Exodus 14: 16 ) and in prayer over Israel in battle ( Exodus 17: 9 ); Moses brings forth water from a stone using his rod ( Exodus 17, Numbers 20: 11 ).

* Panchaea, ( In ' Sacred History ' (" Hiera Anagraphê ") of Euhemerus, around 3rd c BC ), described as a rational island paradise located just after the Red sea and around the Arabian Peninsula.

On August 20, 1944, a c. 3, 400, 000-strong Red Army began a major summer offensive codenamed Jassy-Kishinev Operation.

* c. 7000 BC: Red pepper, bottle gourd, avocados, and squash cultivated on Pacific coast of Guatemala.

* c. 5600 BC: The Red Paint People become established in the region from present-day Labrador to New York state.

Dodge introduced what they called the " Adult Toys " line to boost its truck sales in the late 1970s, starting off with the limited edition Lil ' Red Express pickup ( featuring, a 360 c. i. police interceptor engine and visible big rig-style exhaust stacks ).

* Mangas Coloradas, ( Kan-da-zis Tlishishen-“ Red Shirt ” or “ Pink Shirt ”, also Dasoda-hae-“ He Just Sits There ”), ( c. 1793 – Jan.

Métis drivers with Red River ox cart s. c. 1860

* Irish — Dillon, Gerard: Many works, including Bird and Bird Canvas ( c. 1958 ), And the Time Passes ( 1962 ), The Brothers ( 1967 ), Beginnings ( 1968 ), Encounter ( c. 1968 ), Red Nude with Loving Pierrot ( c. 1970 ); Robinson, Markey: Many works.

* William Weatherford, also known as Red Eagle ( c. 1781 – 1824 ), led the Creek War offensive against the United States

* Sol Salkind, U. S. Cancels 1890-1900, with Special Emphasis on the Fancy Cancels found on the 2 ¢ Red Definitive Stamps of this period ( David G. Phillips Co. c. 1985 ).

* Red: Pantone 032 c

Erik Thorvaldsson (; 950 – c. 1003 ), known as Erik the Red (), is remembered in medieval and Icelandic saga sources as having founded the first Norse settlement in Greenland.

The eleven tales are not adjacent in either of the main early manuscript sources, the White Book of Rhydderch ( c. 1375 ) and the Red Book of Hergest ( c. 1400 ), and indeed Breuddwyd Rhonabwy is absent from the White Book.

Fort Pembina and Red River ox carts, c. 1870

The Red Velvet Room once contained the largest and most expensive paintings in Lord Burlington's collection, including paintings by Sir Anthony van Dyck ( 1599 – 1641 ), Giacomo Cavedone ( 1577 – 1660 ), Peter Paul Rubens ( 1573 – 1640 ), Rembrandt van Ryn ( 1606 – 69 ), Salvator Rosa ( 1615 – 1673 ), Pier Francesco Mola ( 1612 – 1666 ), Jacopo Ligozzi ( c. 1547 – 1632 ), Jean Lemaire ( 1598 – 1659 ), Francisque Millet ( 1642 – 79 ) and Leonardo da Vinci ( 1452 – 1519 ).

Some of these medieval poets were known by a pseudonym, for example Cynddelw Brydydd Mawr (" Cynddelw the Master Poet ", fl. 1155-1200 ) and Iolo Goch (" Iolo the Red ", c. 1320-c. 1398 ).

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Red velvet Minidress, c. 1965

* c. 3300 BC The Red Temple, the first phase of the Monte d ' Accoddi sanctuary in Northwest Sardinia, is built.

By Rhoda Broughton, author of " Nancy ," " Red as a Rose is She ," & c.