Opening of the grand Avenue of the Sphinxes in Egypt

[Apollon]

Amazing show yesterday in Luxor. They opened the great avenue of Sphinxes between the Amun Temple of Karnak and the Luxor temple. In the old egyptian kingdowm the opet festival was a festival where statues of teh gods were transported through that avenue from one temple to the other. This was last done when Cleopatra died...yesterday this was done again and it was a gigantic show.

Look for yourself

Only two weeks until we travel to Egypt. Im super excited for this.

There are no other countries that have so much shared history as Greece and Egypt so its super special for me.

 

[Dariush the Great]

Glad to see Egypt focusing more on their pre-Islamic heritage. Question to Egyptian members : What influences from ancient Egypt do we see still today in the country/society? As far i know Egypt has not withstood the forceful Arabization process unlike Iran for example. Do you still have some ancient words in your Arabic language today? How about ancient traditions/rituals etc?

 

[Hack-Hook]

Glad to see Egypt focusing more on their pre-Islamic heritage. Question to Egyptian members : What influences from ancient Egypt do we see still today in the country/society? As far i know Egypt has not withstood the forceful Arabization process unlike Iran for example. Do you still have some ancient words in your Arabic language today? How about ancient traditions/rituals etc?

You must ask that from Copts . And I don't know if any of them post here

 

[SQ8]

Statues of the gods were transported from one temple to the other as part of ancient worship rituals. Interesting.. couldn’t they go themselves?

 

[Wilhelm II]

Amazing show yesterday in Luxor. They opened the great avenue of Sphinxes between the Amun Temple of Karnak and the Luxor temple. In the old egyptian kingdowm the opet festival was a festival where statues of teh gods were transported through that avenue from one temple to the other. This was last done when Cleopatra died...yesterday this was done again and it was a gigantic show.

Look for yourself

Only two weeks until we travel to Egypt. Im super excited for this.

There are no other countries that have so much shared history as Greece and Egypt so its super special for me.

I hope we have better friendship and more sharing our history my Greek friend

Glad to see Egypt focusing more on their pre-Islamic heritage. Question to Egyptian members : What influences from ancient Egypt do we see still today in the country/society? As far i know Egypt has not withstood the forceful Arabization process unlike Iran for example. Do you still have some ancient words in your Arabic language today? How about ancient traditions/rituals etc?

Egyptian history is not just pharaohs period
Even before of civilization Egypt have history upper and lower Egypt , unification of Egypt, Iranians, Greeks, Romans, Christians, Byzantium, Islam, crusade wars, Turks, Britain, and now
That's why Egypt have one of richest history ever so Egypt is not just pharaohs period
Today Egypt made by a long long colourful history

 

[Apollon]

I hope we have better friendship and more sharing our history my Greek friend

Egyptian history is not just pharaohs period
Even before of civilization Egypt have history upper and lower Egypt , unification of Egypt, Iranians, Greeks, Romans, Christians, Byzantium, Islam, crusade wars, Turks, Britain, and now
That's why Egypt have one of richest history ever so Egypt is not just pharaohs period
Today Egypt made by a long long colourful history

Im in Egypt from 12th to 18th december and super excited about it

Glad to see Egypt focusing more on their pre-Islamic heritage. Question to Egyptian members : What influences from ancient Egypt do we see still today in the country/society? As far i know Egypt has not withstood the forceful Arabization process unlike Iran for example. Do you still have some ancient words in your Arabic language today? How about ancient traditions/rituals etc?

The coptic language, and basicly the entire agriculture system there is from pharaonic times

 

[ARCH٤R]

Glad to see Egypt focusing more on their pre-Islamic heritage. Question to Egyptian members : What influences from ancient Egypt do we see still today in the country/society? As far i know Egypt has not withstood the forceful Arabization process unlike Iran for example. Do you still have some ancient words in your Arabic language today? How about ancient traditions/rituals etc?

We celebrate Easter and it's a national holiday, names of various places in Egypt are originally from the pre-Islamic era (see Assyut for example). From the Coptic POV we have several signs written in Coptic language (more ones are appearing through infrastructural updates and improvements) and the Coptic Orthodox Church uses Coptic prayers. Mind that "Arabic" varies from a country to another and from a region to another within most countries, Egyptian Arabic can have more pre-islamic roots than I can claim we do have Nubian people in modern day Egypt and they have their own words and culture, they are discriminated heavily though hence even I don't know much about them.
The Coptic Orthodox Church does teach the Coptic Language to its deacons and future deacons.

 

[Trango Towers]

Statues of the gods were transported from one temple to the other as part of ancient worship rituals. Interesting.. couldn’t they go themselves?

gods need help. Lol

 

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Do you still have some ancient words

They are called Egyptian hieroglyphs and they resemble emojis on smart phones