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The 5000 years old miracle pyramids consists of 2,600,000 stones without cement, each stone might weight 2~15 tons, the ceiling of the kings room consists of huge stones each one of them weights 70 tons. Strange !, how did they left it up without our modern tools ? The height of the Pyramid is 149,4 meters = a skyscraper of 48 floor.

Less than two weeks after a river boat sank and spilled oil into Egypt’s Nile River, a second barge has sank near the same spot close to Aswan in southern Egypt, the Egyptian official MENA news agency reported.

The past ten years have been witness to considerable changes throughout Egypt, as the burgeoning tourist industry throughout the Red Sea region brought about new developments on an unprecedented scale. Whilst many of these developments are designed to cater for the mass market demand, a select number have sought to create something entirely more aspirational in their focus. The Sahl Hasheesh has been designed to provide the most desirable residential locations in the Red Sea region, a place of unparalleled beauty, where inspirational design has led to some of the most stunning property developments to be found anywhere on the Red Sea.

An Egyptian environmental organization has launched a campaign against the country’s largest supermarket chain for the end of plastic bags along the Red Sea. The Hurghada Environmental Protection and Conservation Agency, which works mainly on environmental issues in the Red Sea, believes the use of plastic bags can be greatly curtailed in Egypt in an effort to promote environmental sustainability and a greener country.

A spill of around 100 tons of diesel into the Nile River has forced Egyptian authorities to shut down four water purification stations as a precaution to prevent contamination. The spill resulted from the partial sinking of a barge owned by the state’s Nile Co. for River Transportation that was docking in the city of Aswan, 650 miles south of Cairo, because of low water levels Saturday. It further degrades an Nile River basin already damaged by overuse, pollution and drought.