Travel The City Of A Thousand Minarets - Cairo  History Of Cairo:
Cairo was founded at around 969 AD, though it is believed that the history statrted almost 4 millenia ago Egypt lies between Africa and the middle eastern countries in fact one among the few of the important Arab states. It started as a Civilization along the banks of the River Nile and has been passing a history down to its children which is now almost over 6000 years old, and the traces of the existence of the early man that has been found is dated back almost 700,00 years ago. They built a civilization that was ruled bu them for almost 3 millennia. Ancient Egyptians used phonetic pictograph writing, which the Ancient Greeks called hieroglyphics (the individual characters are called hieroglyphics ) a written dialogue used by the people of that time to make sounds and compose words similar to what we use in these times, hieroglyphics was executed by drawing pictures of objects and the stylized representations of objects to make words and to represent sound combinations to record and communicate information . Scribes as they were the only people who could read and write and were kept to maintain a written record of the government dealings and also had to write letters on behalf of the Pharaoh, These scribes wrote in hieroglyphics and hieractic ( which was a shorter form of hieroglyphics) on a kind of paper called papyrus scrolls that was made out of papyrus reeds and eventually processed so that they could be written on ( the plural form of papyrus is papyri).The scribes also recorded their work in temple walls and tomb walls .  However in the course of the three thousand years of the Egyptian civilization three other scripts ( all in the form of signs and letters ) were introduced by the Egyptians for different reasons. Seth (is the simpler form of hieractics ) The area that occupies the city of Cairo has been inhabited since 3500 years ago and 9 cities have been located in this place. The earliest known settlement is Babylon Fort, which was founded by the Romans. It is believed that the Holy family settled in this area. The name Cairo in Arabic means "victorious" Cairo witnessed the rise and fall of the Greek, Persian, Roman, Arab, Ottoman, French, and British Empires The earliest known settlement is Babylon Fort, which was founded by the Romans. It is believed that the Holy family settled in this area. The name Cairo in Arabic means "victorious" The royal capital of Egypt during the Old Kingdom was located at Memphis, The city of Memphis was situated 28 km south of modern day Cairo on an island on the Nile River, founded by the first king of the first dynasty called of Egypt called Menes .Memphis remained the capital of Egypt until around 2200 BC and later for shorter periods during the ,New Kingdom.
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