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The Tomb of Tigrane Pasha in Alexandria

  The Tomb from Tigrane Pasha Street The  Main Tomb at Kom el-Shoqafa( the Tigrane Tomb) presents the most convincing case for active worship of Isis and her mysteries in Alexandria.  In comparison to the scale of the Great Catacomb at Kom el-Shoqafa, the Tigrane Tomb, which was discovered in 1952 in the eastern necropolis near the tombs at Moustapha Pasha, appears exceedingly modest.  it consisted of one room fitted with loculi and another in the form of a triclinium-shaped burial chamber, but only the burial chamber was removed from the earth. The triclinium shape A  triclinium  (plural:  triclinia ) is a formal  dining room  in a  Roman  building. The word is adopted from the  Greek   triklinion  ( τρικλίνιον )—from  tri-  ( τρι- ), "three", and  klinē  ( κλίνη ), a sort of  couch  or rather  chaise longue .  of the burial chamber is formed, as it is in the Main Tomb at ...

Nubian Museum in Aswan

  Construction of the Museum    The building of the Nubian Museum from the outside is surrounded by a big garden, which includes a lot of different plant species originally from Egypt. The inside of the museum consists of 3 floors. The first floor is below the ground level and it’s where the workshops and restoration laboratories are located. The second floor is a somewhat larger hall which includes a lot of monuments. Last but not least, the third floor contains a library, café, rooms for the museum staff, and rooms to keep safe the photography and microfilms.     Aswan in Egypt is one of the most famous touristic cities in the world, and in it, there are a lot of museums, one of the most impressive museums is the Nubian Museum. This museum includes about 3000 masterpieces from different eras divided over 17 different displaying sections, and these sections are the Nubia region, the Nubian environment, the origin of the Nile Valley, the prehistoric era, the Neo...