El Wadi Elgadid

El Wadi Elgadid  Governor ate of the largest provinces of Egypt, so it occupies approximately 37.6% of the total area of ​​Egypt.


Egypt's history is reflected in all ages in the El Wadi Elgadid, dotted by many effects from the Pharaonic era, Ptolemaic and Roman, Coptic and Islamic.

El Wadi Elgadid has personnel special nature as it is characterized by its inhabitants unique customs and traditions, and excel in a number of industries and crafts which they are famous a long time ago.

And blessed El Wadi Elgadid has a wonderful climate throughout the year, characterized by drought and moisture-free, bright sunshine and air purity which is not flawless of air pollutants in urban and densely populated areas.

The spread in the region, beautiful soft sand and herbs and medicinal plants, including drugs abstracted and vegetable oils and aromatic. The area is rich as well as eye and natural wells with high temperature to 34 ° C, and contains several elements metal great interest.

Zoser King

Zoser , Khet prose and is meant idol 's body , took the title of Bridge sense of the sacred . (2686 BC .  - 2600 BC . ) . And is the second pharaoh of the third dynasty Pharaonic and at the beginning of the old state , his name appeared in red Papyrus Torben , distinguished him from the rest of the kings of the Old Kingdom . The grave ( Pyramid ) is the first large stone building in history .
Male of Pharaonic Mantho Manetho, that Djoser ruled for 29 years (2640 BC. M. --2,611 BC). , While remember Papyrus Torben that the period of his rule extended only 19 years (2630 BC. M. --2,611 BC). , But many historians both cases recall that the wisdom of the period extended for a period of 29 years because of the magnitude of the construction work carried out . And therefore the difference in years between the two figures may mean that the pharaoh Zoser is the same as the first in the third family .
And his inscription in one of the islands of Aswan , lists the events of the famine that occurred during his reign due to lack of flooding of the Nile , where he presented Zoser offerings to Khnum , the god of the waterfall . And in which he stated the following:
My heart was in a tight painful, because the Nile did not lead to seven years. Grains were not abundant, dried seeds , everything was owned by the individual to eat was pathetic quantities , each person harvested campus . Not that anyone can walk more; older hearts were sad and legs bent when they sat on the ground , their hands are scared away . Even served temples they go, the temples were closed and shelters covered with dust . In short , everything in existence woundedComes the reply from Khanom by the inscription :
I will make the Nile rise to you . There will be no more years when batters immersion in the coverage of any area of land. Flowers Storiq , and bend under the weight of stumps pollen
AchievementsZoser taken from Memphis , dead hostage , the capitalThe extraction of copper and turquoise from the Sinai which the security of his huge wealth enabled him to carry out structural huge.Expanded state in the south after the extension of its influence on the Nubians and extending the country 's borders until after the First Cataract .
GraveSaqqara pyramid , Zoser built his tomb at a distance of a mile from the cliff Saqqara to keep away from the rest of the graves . And oversaw the construction and vizier Imhotep . Pyramid consists of six terraces and uneven height of 62 meters and clad in with Gerry white stone . The inside consists of a network of corridors and corridors , and the king 's burial room was built of granite.

Fayoum City

Fayoum city is located in the heart of Egypt between the Delta and Upper Egypt southwest of Cairo distance of 100 km , one of the oases in the Western Desert and is considered a microcosm of Egypt where Yusuf Sea represents gaining and Deltah represent Lake Qarun northern coastline. And Fayoum gathering where all of the elements and features attractions for its temperate weather throughout the year. Has appeared in which the successive civilizations of Egypt and left their mark through the effects of the Pharaonic , Greek , Roman , Coptic and Islamic . The total area of ​​the province of Fayoum ( 6068.70 km2 ), which includes five administrative centers are (Fayoum , Sinnuras , Atsa , Tamyah, Ibshway )

The Fayoum environments met three types - coastal and rural and desert - together in a beautiful harmony but it is not available . Among the most prominent features of the coastal environment which constitute a magnet mainly for tourism Lake Qarun , which lies 20 km from the city and 80 km from Cairo and allow the water sports , fishing and bird watching migratory and resident and located on the south coast range of facilities and tourist villages.
Tourism desert environment :
Fayoum close similarities oasis , where desert surrounded from all sides except for a point of contact with the Nile . So the desert represents 62% of the area which is rich in  its plants ,formations geological and mountains and hills and desert and , eyes natural ,birds and animals rare wild , has announced the desert north of Lake Qarun and around lakes and Wadi Rayan nature reserves because they contain components of environmental and natural rare.