Probably because chicken is fucking delicious and pork is a no-no in Islam, KFC does incredibly good business in North Africa and the Middle East. KFC is so popular in the Arabic world that when people in Gaza were unable to get the Colonel’s secret recipe by normal means, people built a secret tunnel to smuggle the stuff up from Egypt.
Last week, a group of Russians photographers apparently climbed the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt. They hid from guards for four hours after the end of the visits and began to climb. According to one of the photographers, climb the pyramid can give punishment of one to three years. But it was worth it. “I was speechless,” he wrote. “I felt a creepy pleasure, an absolute happiness.”
Right now, Egypt is in a weird place. President Mohammed Morsi is replacing the ousted Hosni Mubarek, and he’s being watched carefully by the Arab world, by Israel, by the US, UN and the people of Egypt. Shit’s about to blow up in the Middle East again, and Morsi is trying to balance loyalties… so when today he announced he was granting himself new powers like a complete lack of judicial oversight, it pissed of Egyptians and it pissed off the US State Department.
No really, what a douche. Twenty four year old Moustafa “Big Mo” Ismail of Egypt officially has the title of the world’s biggest biceps. Apparently, he’s moving to America to have access to better training equipment to get SUPER DUPER BICEPS.
Finally I would like to point out it kinda looks like he had breast implants, but in his arms.
Most of the ancient pyramids in Egypt are pretty easy to find. They’re the really, really big pyramid shaped things in the middle of an otherwise fairly flat desert. But what about the reeeeeally old ones? The above image, spotted on Google Earth, may be a group of some of the first pyramids, well before the famous ones at Giza. So old that they’re nothing but worn down mounds.
Two thousand years ago, Egypt was one of the great academic centers of the world. And now, one 19 year girl old named Aisha Mustafa has invented a quantum physics based propulsion system that would make the ancient Egyptian scholars proud, and it could represent the future of space travel.
There is no shortage of information out there on the Great Pyramids of Egypt, but if you want an in-depth 3D exploration of the pyramids at Giza in your browser, you can take a look at Giza 3D.
Pretty everyone has seen the Eye of Horus somewhere at some point. It’s been in every single movie, TV show, book and video game even remotely touching on anything to do with ancient Egypt, and it’s been turned into millions of cheap head shop pendants, but it’s more than meets the eye— it’s not just a cool symbol, but it’s a math problem.
Egyptian husbands will soon be legally allowed to have sex with their dead wives - for up to six hours after their death.
Archaeologists from Egypt and Sweden have unearthed the 1100 year old tomb of an ancient Egyptian female singer in The Valley of the Kings. The find is the first woman found to have been buried in this royal patch of ground who has not been royalty.
Earlier this year, angry Egyptians ousted Hosni Mubarek from power, and in the interim, the country has been ruled by a military council. Now pissed off (surprise surprise) that the interim council is fucking things up, Egyptians have once again taken to the streets in the past couple months to demand the military council step down in favor of… somebody. And in the clashes between protesters and police, a cache of priceless hundreds year old documents have been destroyed.