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The OLX marketplace is a platform for buying and selling services and goods such as electronics, fashion items, furniture, household goods, cars and bikes. In 2014, the platform reportedly had 11 billion page views, 200 million monthly active users, 25 million listings, and 8.5 million transactions per month. [3]
Ink – Ink was used in Ancient Egypt for writing and drawing on papyrus from at least the 26th century BC. [134] Siphon – Ancient Egyptian reliefs from 1500 BC depict siphons used to extract liquids from large storage jars. [149] [150] Merkhet - The merkhet was an ancient surveying and timekeeping instrument.
Area. 52,366 ha. Old Cairo ( Arabic: مصر القديمة, romanized : Miṣr al-Qadīma, Egyptian pronunciation: Maṣr El-ʾAdīma) is a historic area in Cairo, Egypt, which includes the site of a Roman -era fortress, the Christian settlement of Coptic Cairo, and the Muslim-era settlements pre-dating the founding of Cairo proper in 969 AD.
In ancient Egyptian history, the Old Kingdom is the period spanning c. 2700 –2200 BC. It is also known as the "Age of the Pyramids" or the "Age of the Pyramid Builders", as it encompasses the reigns of the great pyramid-builders of the Fourth Dynasty, such as King Sneferu, who perfected the art of pyramid-building, and the kings Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure, who constructed the pyramids at Giza.
Nasr City is the largest neighbourhood in Cairo by area, occupying nearly 250 km 2 (97 sq mi) of the capital's total area of 1,445 km 2 (558 sq mi). For this reason, it is divided into two districts ( hayy ): East Madīnat Naṣr (Qism Awwal) and West Madīnat Naṣr (Qism Than), [3] and 25 sub-districts that have become shiakhas (non ...
The history of Egypt has been long and wealthy, due to the flow of the Nile River with its fertile banks and delta, as well as the accomplishments of Egypt 's native inhabitants and outside influence. Much of Egypt's ancient history was a mystery until Egyptian hieroglyphs were deciphered with the discovery and deciphering of the Rosetta Stone.
Foreleg of ox, a "choice cut of meat". Mortuary offering for ritual; the first item shown in the formulaic listing of items given to the deceased on the funerary stele (thigh, then fowl, bread, wine, beer, and linen, etc.). In ritual ceremony, the right and left forelegs of oxes is always "unfettered" while incapacitating the oxes, and are the ...
Bayut was founded in 2008 by Imran Ali Khan and Zeeshan Ali Khan, following their launch of Zameen.com in Pakistan. In 2014, Haider Ali Khan moved to the UAE from the USA as the CEO of Bayut. Haider also leads the UAE’s largest online classifieds website, dubizzle, as the company’s CEO and as the MENA CEO of the wider Dubizzle Group.