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An 1866 stamp of Egypt. Carlo Meratti, an Italian, set up the first postal system in Egypt in 1821. This was a private enterprise which in 1842 was named "POSTA EUROPEA". The Egyptian Government, in 1857, sanctioned it to carry on all inland postal services. This concession was purchased by the Egyptian Government and on 1 January 1865 it took ...
Gods. Aker – A god of Earth and the horizon [ 3] Amun – A creator god, patron deity of the city of Thebes, and the preeminent deity in Egypt during the New Kingdom [ 4] Anhur – A god of war and hunting [ 5][ 6][ 7] Aten – Sun disk deity who became the focus of the monolatrous or monotheistic Atenist belief system in the reign of ...
The Postal Museum of Egypt is located at Al-Ataba Square, second floor of the Central Post Office building, Central Cairo spread over 543 sq. meters. [1] The museum was established in February 1934 but it was not open to the public until January 1940. The postal museum has displays of postal artifacts, pictures and documents showing different ...
The gallery of passport stamps by country or territory contains an accurate alphabetical list of sovereign states, partially recognised states, and dependent territories with images of their passport stamps including visas. All Schengen countries and Cyprus use the same format for their stamps and stamps are not issued when traveling from one ...
Nut / ˈ n ʊ t / [2] (Ancient Egyptian: Nwt, Coptic: Ⲛⲉ [citation needed]), also known by various other transcriptions, is the goddess of the sky, stars, cosmos, mothers, astronomy, and the universe in the ancient Egyptian religion. [3] She was seen as a star-covered nude woman arching over the Earth, [4] or as a cow. She was depicted ...
The Paser Crossword Stela is an ancient Egyptian limestone stela that dates from the 20th Dynasty. It was constructed by Paser, c. 1150 BC, during the reign of Pharaoh Ramesses VI. The stela's text is a hymn to the goddess Mut. It is constructed to be read horizontally, vertically, and around its perimeter, therefore three times.
Died. December 5, 2012. (2012-12-05) (aged 70) Berkeley, California, U.S. Peter Randolph Feltus (1 January 1942 [1] – 5 December 2012 [2]) was an American philatelist, an expert on the revenue stamps of Egypt and Sudan. He was a member of the American Philatelic Society, the Sudan Study Group and, from 1962 until his death, the Egypt Study ...
Present location. Berlin, Germany. The Westcar Papyrus ( inventory -designation: P. Berlin 3033) is an ancient Egyptian text containing five stories about miracles performed by priests and magicians. In the papyrus text, each of these tales are told at the royal court of king Khufu (Cheops) ( Fourth Dynasty, 26th century BCE) by his sons.