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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Nofret's statue in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. Nofret's parents are not known. Nofret married Prince Rahotep, a son of Pharaoh Sneferu. She had six children with Rahotep: three daughters - Mereret, Nedjemib, and Sethtet - and three sons, Djedi, Itu, and Neferkau. They all had the same title of "King's Acquaintance". [1]
Logistics. Founded. January 2, 1865. Headquarters. Cairo, Egypt. Website. www .egyptpost .org. Egypt Post ( Egyptian Arabic: البريد المصرى El-Barid el-Maṣri) is the governmental agency responsible for postal service in Egypt. Established 29 October 1865, it is one of the oldest governmental institutions in the country.
The Pharaohs' Golden Parade (Arabic: موكب المومياوات الملكية, Egyptian Arabic: موكب المميات الملكيه, Coptic: Ϯϫⲓⲛⲟⲩⲱⲛϩ ⲛ̀ⲛⲓⲫⲁⲣⲁⲱ ⲛ̀ⲛⲟⲩⲃ, romanized: Tiḏinouōnh nnipharaō nnoub) was an event held in Cairo, Egypt on 3 April 2021, during which twenty-two mummies belonging to Kings and Queens of the New Kingdom of ...
A stamp seal and its impression. The impression rotated clockwise 90 degrees probably yields a version of the Tree of Life -(see Urartian art photos). The stamp seal (also impression seal ) is a common seal die , frequently carved from stone, known at least since the 6th millennium BC ( Halaf culture [ 1 ] ) and probably earlier.
The history of Egypt has been long and wealthy, due to the flow of the Nile River with its fertile banks and delta, as well as the accomplishments of Egypt 's native inhabitants and outside influence. Much of Egypt's ancient history was unknown until Egyptian hieroglyphs were deciphered with the discovery and deciphering of the Rosetta Stone.