The Ministry of Antiques and Tourism Prevented the Dutch mission of the Leiden Museum from working in Saqqara for its support of the Afrocentric movement.

The Ancient Egyptians excelled in the art of architecture since the beginning of the civilization. Different forms of architecture emerged according to the need, religious, civil and military architecture, and till this day the Great Pyramid is evidence of the ingenuity and precision of the Egyptians in building and construction.The skill of the Egyptians in architecture led to the invention of construction equipment and tools that are still used today, such as sledge to pull huge stones, and measuring tools such as the cubit, angle, and horizontal and vertical plumb to adjust the locations and angles of building points with high accuracy.Construction tools from the Tomb of Sennedjem, tomb No. 1 in Deir El-Madina, dating back to the Nineteenth Dynasty (1295: 1186 BC) of the New Kingdom.Displayed in The National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Cairo, Egypt.

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"Al-Zahir Baybars" Mosque is considered the icon of Mamluk architecture in Egypt, and it is the third largest archaeological mosque in area after the Mosque of Toulon, and "Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah".The mosque restoration project began in 2007 and stopped in 2011 until work resumed in 2018. The development process included strengthening the foundations of the columns and the pulpit, restoring some areas of the mosque to reach the original shape of the monument, restoring its marble columns, and developing the iwans of the mosque (northeast and southwest) in addition to the entrances to the iwans. The methods used until the mosque was revived again in 2023

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You will feel that you are from the people of the country when you visit the beautiful areas in Egypt and talk like them.

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