Hi guys let’s discuss about some history  in this article... Wonder how? Don’t get worried, I assure you, it’s not going to make you bored. Well apart from India there are many other countries in this world, which are well known for its ancient history and some of them are Greeks, Romans and this article let us go to Africa, and find something about the Egyptians and Cairo and as a matter of fact let us not fully deal with history and also discuss some of the recent development that made Egypt one of the best tourism in this world.In the later part of this article let us also discuss the famous Tourism places in Egypt.

Cairo, the capital of Egypt was officially called as “Al-Qahirah” . I guess many would feel Egypt is an ancient city and there is nothing to see except the Pyramids. If you have anything like that in your mind then just forget about it. There are lots of place in Egypt for you to visit and to everyone’s surprise they also prove that they do have become modernized along with their ancient culture and tradition.Well, the development is taking at a rapid place to show that Egypt is one of the finest place in the world where you can see a lot of ancient monuments and also the latest development in infrastructures.

So let’s not get very deep into its history, and start with its modern history, and do you know when its modern history starts? It’s still long back dude, as have to start our discussion from 1882, to know what happened in Egypt. Everything was ok, and fine till the 1880’s, when Khedive Tewfiq was serving the country as Prime Minister. It all started in 1881 when there was a military coup in Egypt under the Army head Ahmed Urabi, who dismissed Khedive Tewfiq from the Prime Minister post.

So Britain and France never want to miss this chance of making their colonies in one of the Africa’s best country, Egypt. So they gathered their force at the Suez Canal and they finally managed to defeat the Egypt Army at Tel El Kebir, which was led by their leader Ahmed Urabi. So they also restored peace in the country and also made Khedive Tewfiq as the Prime Minister of the company. But they used this as a chance and in the name of maintaining political stability , they started to dominate them, because even before this they started to finance the country from 1876.

But, Lord Cromer, who was the Britain’s Chief reprehensive for Egypt, at that time had a different plan and he viewed this invasion of Egypt in a long term plan. He was very much keen in using the resources of Egypt and especially cotton, which is famous and cheap in Egypt. He saw the cotton economy as the money growing field and so he planned to export the cotton at a very cheaper rate and also earned many money for his country. But he didn’t realize that very soon than expected that Britain will leave Egypt.

But soon the Egyptians want the British soldiers to leave the country and the demonstrations were started in March 1919 and this has later become the First revolution of Egypt. And as a result of this revolution, many people lost their lie and after 3 years in 1922, the British Government declared the Kingdom of Egypt as independent and Sarwat Pasha was given the post of the prime minister.

But still the British played a vital role even after declaring Egypt independence and they also involved in the forming og government, financial control and other departments also.The Briish also held Sudan, Canal region and also some of the exterior portion of the Egypt and Egyptian Government also not willing to leave Sudan, and they gathered their troops there and the want to make Sudan as the integral part of Egypt. But the British rejected this and all the three that includes, National Political organization which was opposed by the British, The king Faud and the British itself.

However in 1936 King Fuad died in 1936 the 16 year old Farouk  succeeded him. But that was time Italy was very powerful and thei invasion of Ethiopia made the British to think again of their presence in Egypt and at last in 1949 they left the country, including the Suez Canal.

Later in 1958 Egypt came up with an extremely different idea, by which they along with th republic of Syria formed a state and it is known as the, which was existed till 1961 when Syria doesn’t want to continue to be in UAR.Then the period of Nasser came and during his period the Egyptian, Syrian and Jordanian armed forces were routed by the Israelis and this made Nasser to resign. As a result of this Israel captured and occupied

i) The Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip from Egypt
ii) Golan Heights from Syria
iii) West Bank and East Jerusalem from Jordan.
As a result of this till the Middle East countries suffer from war mainly between Israel and Palestine.

After Nasser’s death Sadat, who was the Vice President at that time, was elected President of Egypt and Sadat was concentrated mainly on the foreign relations but many felt that he was not liked by many people. But his period was lasted for around a decade and after that on October 6, 1981, he was assassinated by Islamic extremists and so his deputy Hosni Mubarak, was elected President and he serves as the President of the country till now and his image is shown below

Well, now let’s see some of the famous tourist spot to be visited when one travels to Egypt.

i)"Pyramids at Giza" and "Sphinx"

This is the sole survivor of the original Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and this is the symbolic representation of Egypt, because whenever we say Pyramids, we will think of Egypt. These Pyramids are well known for its
#) Sheer size
#) Incomprehendable for the age of construction
#) Mathematically brilliant in design

Apart from the Pyramids, Sphinx are also famous in Egypt.

ii) City of the Dead (Northern Cemetery)

The name might make you frighten but actually it is one of the most popular tourist attractions in the city of Cairo and it is nothing but the home to ancient tombstones as well as Mamluk burials. This is an important cemetery, which is located beneath the Citadel. The history goes way back to 1841, when the Sultan Quaitbey built a hostel for the homeless here and it was used by many people.

iii)Gate of Conquest

This is also called as Bab el-Futuh, which features two towers and it is located on the old Fatimid City.

iv)Cairo Tower

This is the one of the eye catching view in Cairo and you can view the beautiful landscape of Cairo from this tower.

v) Museums in Cairo

#) Egyptian Antiquities Museum : You can know about the past and history of Egypt here

#) Egyptian Ethnological Museum : Contains mainly village crafts work

#) Military Museum: Many famous battles description are available here

#) Museum of Islamic Art : more than 10,000 paintings are available here

vi) Khan Al-Khalili Market, Cairo

This is the famous market in Cairo and whenever you travel here, you can purchase variety of goods and you can also bargain for the rates. This is the best shopping place for the foreigners who travel here.

Apart from this there are many other place, which are centre for tourist attractions