Tura (Egyptian Arabic: طرة Tora IPA: [ˈtˤoɾˤɑ], Coptic: ⲧⲣⲱⲁ, Ancient Greek: Τρωια or Τρωη) was the primary quarry for limestone in ancient Egypt. The...
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Mountains and Siberia Other Tura Beach, New South Wales, a community in Australia Tura, Egypt, a town in Cairo Governorate, Egypt Tura, Hungary, a city in Pest...
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List of pharaohs (redirect from Conventional chronology of Egypt)
"pharaoh" is used for those rulers of Ancient Egypt who ruled after the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt by Narmer during the Early Dynastic Period,...
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Diary of Merer (category 26th century BC in Egypt)
Wadi al-Jarf Find-spot Giza Tura quarries The Diary of Merer (also known as Papyrus Jarf) is the name for papyrus logbooks written over 4,500 years...
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white limestone from Tura and granite from Aswan. In 2013, papyri, named Diary of Merer, were discovered at an ancient Egyptian harbor at the Red Sea...
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Mount Sinai (redirect from Mount Sinai, Egypt)
Mount Sinai (Hebrew: הַר סִינָֽי Har Sīnay; Aramaic: ܛܘܪܐ ܕܣܝܢܝ Ṭūrāʾ dəSīnăy; Coptic: Ⲡⲧⲟⲟⲩ Ⲥⲓⲛⲁ), also known as Jabal Musa (Arabic: جَبَل مُوسَىٰ,...
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Tora Prison (redirect from Tura Prison)
reportedly tortured) Ihab Saqr (2002–2006 Istiqbal Tura, 2006–2008 Liman Tura, 2008-? Istiqbal Tura) Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr (2003–?2007, reportedly...
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Roman Egypt was an imperial province of the Roman Empire from 30 BC to AD 641. The province encompassed most of modern-day Egypt except for the Sinai....
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Red Pyramid (category Pyramids of the Fourth Dynasty of Egypt)
white Tura limestone, but only a few of these stones now remain at the pyramid's base, at the corner. During the Middle Ages much of the white Tura limestone...
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Giza pyramid complex (redirect from Great Pyramids of Egypt)
base. These casing stones were made of fine white limestone quarried at Tura. Khafre's pyramid complex consists of a valley temple, the Sphinx temple...
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