CULTURE OF EGYPT

Culture of Egypt

Culture of Egypt

Introduction

Egypt located in the North East Africa bordering the Gaza strip of Palestine. The capital of Egypt is Cairo. Egypt has a covered area of 1,002,450km2; it has a population of over 80,810,170 people. The currency of Egypt is Egyptian Pound. The national language of Egypt is Arabic. In Africa and Middle-east Egypt is the most populous country. The religion practiced by a majority of the people in Egypt is Islam. Muslims amount to about ninety percent of the total population of Egypt. Egypt has immense cultural mix. The culture and civilization in Egypt has a history of more than five thousand years. Egypt recognized as some one of the most cultured country on the globe. Egypt is also famous because of the river Nile which mentioned in Islamic history books too.

Discussion

Culture of Ancient Egypt is quite different from the previous crop in Africa; studies suggest a hypothesis that there is extraterrestrial origin. However, a clear link with its sugar-Sudanese cultures. The concentration of the tribes, whose specific ethnic characteristics have created the Egyptian culture, associated with the transition to sedentary agriculture, adhered to the fertile, easily irrigated lands of the Nile Valley.

The modern culture of Egypt has its roots back thousands of years. During the end of 5th till the early 6th millennium BC humans first settled in the valley and the delta farmers began to make out of stone, are abundant in areas of desert uplands, the simplest tools: polished stone axes, flint blade (which, apparently, used as sickles), knives, daggers, arrowheads, as well as vessels from these hard rocks, like basalt and porphyry. To provide a more or less regular flow of Nile water to the fields on the river built stone dams and irrigation canals. The remains of waterworks of ancient Egypt led to the amazement of our contemporaries (Moscovitch, 2007).

Remarkable achievement of building art of the ancient Egyptians is Pharaohs tombs and temples, built of large hewn stone slabs. Pyramid-tombs of Egyptian Pharaohs preserved at Saqqara, near the ancient capital of Memphis, as well as in Giza, near Cairo. The most magnificent pyramid - the Pharaoh Khufu (Cheops in Greek) rises above the surrounding terrain to a height of 148 m, and the area of the base is 52.9 thousand square meters. The Pyramid is composed of 2.5 thousand stone slabs, each weighing about 2.5 tons. The stone slabs so ...