Coptic Cairo is a part of Old Cairo which encompasses the Babylon Fortress and many other Coptic churches and historical sites. The Holy Family visited and stayed at the St Sergius & Bacchus Church. Copts are Egyptians whose ancestors embraced Christianity in the first centuries after Christ. Coptic Cairo was a stronghold for Christianity in Egypt until the Islamic era.
The Egyptian Museum in Cairo contains an extensive collection of ancient Egyptian antiquities. It has 120,000 items, with a representative selection on display. The museum's Royal Mummy Room displays about 9 mummies. One of them is the newly discovered mummy of Queen Hatshepsut. Queen Hatshepsut was discovered in the Niagara Falls curiosity museum in NY. There is a separate room for Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
After a busy day sightseeing at the wonderful things in Egypt there is always time for shopping. Don't forget to bargain. If a vendor says 10 you say 3 but finally settle at 5. Good luck :-)
> The Gayer-Anderson House Museum
The Gayer-Anderson House Museum is located in Cairo, adjacent to the Mosque of Ahmad ibn Tulun. The museum takes its name from Major R.G. Gayer-Anderson Pasha, who resided in the house between 1935 and 1942. It is noted for being one of the best preserved examples of 17th century domestic architecture left in Cairo, and also for Gayer-Anderson's vast collection of furniture, carpets, curio, and other objects. A number of legends are associated with the Beit al-Kritliyya, which were collected by Gayer-Anderson and published as Legends of the House of the Cretan Woman (see wikipedia).
Aswan stands on the east bank of the Nile at the first cataract and is a busy market and tourist center. The modern city has expanded and includes the formerly separate community on the island of Elephantine. Aswan is one of the driest inhabited places in the world; as of April, 2010 the last rainfall was a thunderstorm on May 13, 2006. In Nubian settlements, they generally do not bother to roof all of the rooms in their houses.
Philae an island in the Nile River and previous site of the Ancient Egyptian temple complex. The complex was dismantled and relocated to Agilika Island in the 1960’s by UNESCO to save it from being enveloped by the waters of the Nile due to construction of the Aswan High Dam.
Philae was one of the burying-places of Osiris It was held in high reverence by Egyptians to the north and Nubians to the south. It was deemed profane for any but priests to dwell there. The smaller structure is Trajan's Kiosk. It was constructed by the Roman Emperor, Trajan. It is 15.85 meters high; its function was "to shelter the bark of Isis at the eastern banks" of Philae Island.
The Aswan High Dam is the larger and newer of the two dams at Aswan Egypt. High Dam construction started in 1960 and completed in 1970. Periodic floods and droughts, known since Biblical times, caused devastating effect in the Nile Delta. The dams mitigated the effects of floods and droughts. A new fishing industry was created at Lake Nasser. The High Dam increased farmland 500% since 1970. The dam powers twelve generators each rated at 175 megawatts, producing a hydroelectric output of 2.1 giga-watts.