Al-Ahram Weekly On-line
3 - 9 September 1998
Issue No.393
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Museum of Islamic History A journey
into the past
The Pharaonic Village, originally intended to depict the lives of ancient Egyptians, now houses other major civilisations -- the Graeco-Roman and the Islamic. Rehab Saad sampled the different phases of the country's heritage
The minaret of Al-Khashawi Baltim's
secret minaret
A village from the early Egyptian Islamic era was recently unearthed in Kafr Al-Sheikh province, reports Nevine El-Aref