Egypt history research

EGYPT

And the Lord said unto Moses, Depart, and go up hence, thou and the people which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the land which I sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying unto thy seed, I give it. (Exodus 33 verse 1).

12,000 BC – Cotton was grown in Egypt in 12,000 BC. (Quilting patchwork applique. Caroline Crabtree (c)2007 UK).

3000 BC – Found in the Egyptian tomb of Prince Sabu in 1936. Son of Adjuib pharaoh of a dynasty in 3000 BC. A rock, vase and tool. Pinterest. 7 Nov 2015.

3000 BC – Fine cotton was woven in Egypt from 3000 BC. (Quilting patchwork applique. Caroline Crabtree (c)2007 UK).

2800 BC – 1160 BC – By around 2800 BC ancient Egypt began to write using papyrus, an aquatic plant found in Egypt, from which a paper like substance could be made . Because of the dryness of the climate, these materials have survived to the present day, in unusually high numbers for manuscripts that are so old. One example is the Harris papyrus, over 30cm long and dates to around 1160 BC. (The Middle East ©2006 C Catherwood).

2627-2513 BC – Reign of Cheops in the 4^th Dynasty. Officer of Vizor government military, archives and registers. The disappearance of the great library of Alexandria, ancient world. Hundreds of thousands of papyrus scrolls. Collect and store written archives. Burning of the library in Alexandria. (Archives power. Randall C Jimerson (c)2009 US).

2560 BC – The great pyramid of Giza in Egypt. (The story of archeology. Justin Pollard (c)2007 UK).

Before 2500 BC – Flax fibre was cultivated, spun and woven well before 2500 BC in ancient Egypt. 4,000 years before Christ. Most flax in the ancient world came from Egypt. (Quilting patchwork applique. Caroline Crabtree (c)2007 UK).

1900 BC – Abraham had a son, Isaac, who had two sons Esam and Jacob. These scriptures or Tanakh (Hebrew), shows that God loves repentant sinners. Jacob had 12 sons, the 12 tribes of Israel. The youngest one, Joseph, was born around1900 BC. He was rejected and enslaved by his brothers. He ended up in a powerful position in Egypt as a principle advisor to the Pharoah. Joseph saved Egypt from famine. His family came to live in Egypt in which they remained for centuries. (The Middle East ©2006 C Catherwood).

1520 BC – 1350 BC – Moses born around 1520 BC. Akhenaten the pharaoh lived around 1350 BC. Hebrew scripture or old testament records. Archeologists say around 1420 BC for the exodus of the Jewish people out of Egypt. Exodus chapter 20. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You shall have no other God before me. The spirit of the Ten Commandments is still with us today in the 21^st century. The prophet Amos, Hebrew scripture and the old testament. ( The Middle East ©2006 C Catherwood).

1450 BC – Joseph Egyptian Sabasabani given to him by the Pharaoh. Joseph era coins were found in Egypt. (Arutz sheva. Israel 25 Sept 2009).

1324 BC – The Tomb of Tutakhamin in Egypt. (The story of archeology. Justin Pollard (c)2007 UK).

11^th century BC – One of the oldest pieces of patchwork and applique dates from the 11^th century BC.The funeral tent of the Egyptian Queen Istremkeb. In the Egyptian museun in Cairo in 2007. Gazelle hide. (Quilting patchwork applique. Caroline Crabtree (c)2007 UK).

968-1171 BC – Store records and archives. Creating and preserving records. The Fatimid dynasty 968-1171 BC in Egypt. (Archives power. Randall C Jimerson (c)2009 US).

300 BC – Ptolemy found the Serapeum at Saqqara in Egypt. (The story of archeology. Justin Pollard (c)2007 UK).

196 BC – The Rosetta stone in Egypt. (The story of archeology. Justin Pollard (c)2007 UK).

168 BC – Antiochus IV King of Syria sent his army to Egypt to steal wealth. He defeated Ptolemec King of Egypt. Then he returned to Syria. (Daniel. Larry W Wilson. (c)2003 US).

41 BC – Cleopatra was ruler of Rome’s wealthiest client kingdom of Egypt. The city of Alexandria was a major centre of trade, in the Mediterranean, and the Kingdom also had a monopoly on trade with India and the Far East. (History Today. April 2013 UK).

30 BC – Cleopatra Slene was Queen of Crete and the Cyrenaica in 34 BC. She also reigned as Queen of Egypt in 30 BC for a short while. (History Today. April 2013 UK)

27 BC – Monument to Ramses II the Ramesseum in Egypt. Slavery in Karnak and Luxor across the Nile. Statues of Amenhotep III in Luxor, the 27 BC earthquake, buried tombs and caves. (Apocalypse. Amos Nur (c)2008 US).

27 BC – Temple of Amenhotep III in Luxor was destroyed. Timeline of earthquakes.

0000 - Jesus Christ was born and lived.

4^th century AD – In Egypt a piece of wild silk was found, dating from the 4^th century AD. Coptic. (Quilting patchwork applique. Caroline Crabtree (c)2007 UK).

969-972 – The emergence of the Mamluks in Egypt and Arab power in North Afrcia. The Fatimid dynasty, a Shiite family descended from Muhammads’s daughter Fatima. They took Egypt in 969. They moved the capital to the new city of al-Qahirah or Cairo. The Fatimids built the al-Azhar mosque in 972. (The Middle East ©2006 C Catherwood).

1064-1072 – Seven years of famine in Egypt. 40,000 people died. Wikipedia.

3 Sept 1260 – Mount Gilboa, Egypt Mamluks fought the Mongols. Ayn Jalut. (Holy wars. Gary C Rashba (c)2011 US UK).

22 Jan 1517 – Turkey conquered Cairo Egypt. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history. 22 Jan 2016).

16^th century – When Turkey conquered Syria and Egypt at the beginning of the 16th century. The overland trade routes were closed. Portugal was working on a sea trade route. (Quilting patchwork applique. Caroline Crabtree (c)2007 UK).

1798 – 1829 – The language was not known or decipherable until the decoding of the Rosetta stone, in the 1820’s by a French scholar, named Champollion. This object can be seen today in the British museum. Originally discovered by French troops in Egypt in 1798. It had a decree in the original Egyptian hieroglyphs (The Middle East ©2006 C Catherwood).

1799 – The Rosetta strone was unearthed in 1799 near Rosetta Egypt by French soldiers. Buried rock, a message written during the second century BC. Archeologists, and the ancient rock. After 1799, the Rosetta stone enabled them to decipher hieroglyphics of ancient Egypt for the first time. (Warning revelation is about to be fulfilled. Larry W Wilson (c)2014 US).

1799 – The book of Daniel was sealed up. Until the time of the end. Angel Gabriel. The Rosetta stone was found in 1799 near Rosetta Egypt. By French troops. It bears a message written during the 2^nd century BC, two forms of Egyptian script. Demotic and hieroglyphs. Archeology before 1799 could not read the clay tablets of Egyptian hieroglyphs or decipher the language. (Daniel. Larry W Wilson (c)2003 US).

1801-1802 – 1801 The British took Alexandria and Cairo from the French. In Feb 1802 the Rosetta stone was taken to the British museum. (The story of archeology. Justin Pollard (c)2007 UK).

1802 – In Feb 1802 the Rosetta stone was sent to London. In March 1802 the Rosetta stone was at the British museum, where it still was in 2007. Its maker was the Greek ruler Ptolemy V. King of Egypt from 205 to 180 BC. Recorded history on papyrus. (The story of archeology. Justin Pollard (c)2007 UK).

1805 – 1882 – Mehmet Ali, governor of Egypt twice between 1805 and 1849. He was powerful in the Arab world. British military occupation since 1882 and joint French occupation of the Suez canal. (The Middle East ©2006 C Catherwood).

1816 – Thebes statue of Ramses III, one of the first Egyptian statues in the British museum. (The story of archeology. Justin Pollard (c)2007 UK).

16 Oct 1817 – Tombs in Thebes Egypt, Ramses II. In 1816 they were found. They are now in the British museum. The Tombs of Pharaoh Seti I and Ramses II. (The story of archeology. Justin Pollard (c)2007 UK).

9 June 1840 – British sailors were massing in the eastern Mediterranean, to fight the French and the ruler of Egypt Mohammed Ali. (The opium wars ©2002 WT Hanes & F Sanello).

17 Feb 1867 – The first ships passed through the Suez canal. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history. 17 Feb 2016).

1875 – Baron Lionel Rothschild. The Suez canal. Balrat Khedive of Egypt. (Hidden history. Gerry Docherty. Jim Macgregor (c)2013 UK).

1882 – The Suez canal came under British military occupation of Egypt in 1882. (Empire of secrets. Calder Walton (c)2013).

1890 – Egypt DM Rameses II slide. (Trade me NZ. Antiques cultural ethnic. 7 April 2016. Wellington NZ).

Early 20^th century – Photo. Small Egyptian linen hanging applique Pharaonic motifs. (Quilting patchwork applique. Caroline Crabtree (c)2007 UK).

1906 – 1949 – Hassan al-Banna was born in the Egyptian town of Isma iliyya on the Suez canal. Muslim Brotherhood founder in 1928, al-Banna was assassinated by Egyptian secret police in 1949. In retaliation for the murder of the Egyptian prime minister, by a member of the brotherhood’s secret organisation in 1948. (al-Qaeda ©2004 J Burke).

4 Nov 1922 – Howard Carter found the tomb of Tutankhaman in Egypt. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history. 4 Nov 2015).

1924 – al Zawahiri’s sort to restore the Caliphate, the rule of Islam. The Ottoman empire in the 13^th century. (The looming tower. Lawrence Wright ©2006 US).

1928 – The Muslim Brotherhood was formed in Egypt. Founded by Hassan al-Banna. (al-Qaeda ©2003 J Burke).

1928 – Hasan al Banna founded the Muslim Brothers. With the aim of turning Egypt into an Islamic state. (The looming tower. Lawrence Wright ©2006 US).

1928 – 1845 – The Muslim Brotherhood was created as an Islamic revivalist movement following the collapse of the Ottoman empire. The brotherhood became a political group in 1936 as it took up the cause of the Palestinians against the Jews and British. Al-Banna visited Palestine between 1942 and 1945, establishing several branches of the Muslim Brotherhood in some cities. The Gaza strip was under Egyptian authority. (Inside Hamas ©2007 Zaki Chehab).

1929 – Rabie’s uncle Mohammed al Ahmadi al Zawahiri of al Azhar. Islamic Imam Mohammed. Rabie’s father and grandfather were al Azhar scholars too. (The looming tower. Lawrence Wright ©2006 US).

13 Nov 1935 – Anti British riots in Egypt. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history 13 Nov 2015).

1936 – Found in the Egyptian tomb of prince Sabu in 1936. Son of Adjuib, pharaoh of a dynasty in 3000 BC. A rock, vase and tool. Pinterest. 7 Nov 2015.

1937 – M15 defence security officer abroad in Cairo Egypt. The first Cairo DSO was Robert Maunsell, first head of SIME, secret intel middle east. (Christopher Andrew UK (c)2009 M15).

1947 – George Blake, a KGB spy in the UK. His uncle was Henri Curiel who was founder of the Egyptian Communist party and a KGB agent. (To secret to long. Chapman Pincher ©1984 US).

1948-50 – Sayyid Qutb flew from America to Egypt on 20 Aug 1950. The Egyptian govt had officially ended the Muslim brothers in 1948. After the murder of police chief Salim Zaki during a riot at Cairo university. The Muslim brothers were one million strong, out of Egypt’s 18 million population. (The looming tower. Lawrence Wright ©2006 US).

Sept 1948 – When British Donald Maclean left the US in Sept 1948 for a post in Cairo Egypt. US atomic energy commission. A Soviet spy. (Treachery. Chapman Pincher (c)2011 UK).

28 December 1948 – A Muslim brother assassinated PM Mahmud Fahmi Nokrashi of Egypt.

1949 – Political violence in the last years of the Egyptian monarchy. Al Banna the founder of the Muslin Brothers was assassinated. (Jihad. Gilles Kepel ©2002 UK).

12 Feb 1949 – The assassination of Hasan al Banna, who was the supreme guide of the Muslim brothers in Egypt. (The looming tower. Lawrence Wright (c)2006 US).

9 June 1951 – Al-Zawahiri was born. He came from a family in al-Sharqiyyah Egypt. Al-Zawahiri qualified as a physician in 1974 and later married a student from the school of arts in 1979. He joined an Islamist organisation at the age of 15. Over 30 years al-Zawahiri accumnulated expertise in clandestine operations. He built up Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Abu Ubadiah al-Banshiri was al-Zawahiti’s closest aide. He was formerly a Cairo police officer. He was dismissed for Islamist activities. He drowned in Lake Victoria Kenya on 21 May 1996 while preparing the east African embassy attack. (Inside al-Qaeda ©2002 R Gunaratna).

19 June 1951 – Umayma Azzam, Rabie’s wife was from a clan. Her father was Dr Abdul Wahhab Azzam of Cairo, father of King Said in Rijadh. Also Egypt’s ambassador, children Ayman and his twin sister Umnya were born on 19 June 1951. (The looming tower. Lawrence Wright ©2006 US).

1952 – Not until Colonel Nasser and his revolutionaries took power in a coup in 1952 were Egyptians again ruled by their own people. (The Middle East ©2006 C Catherwood).

1952 – Mehmet Ali was an Albanian Muslim who was part of a failed attempt to regain Egypt in 1799. The British left in 1803 and he took power and founded a dynasty, which lasted until its deposition in 1952. (The Middle East ©2006 C Catherwood).

1952 – King Farouk’s regime lost power in a military coup, which brought Nasser to power. He was intent on nationalising the Suez Canal. (Cold war ©1003 M Waller)

January 1952 – Twenty British were killed in anti-British riots in Cairo and Nasser seized power in a coup.

1954 – Bank Al Taqwe (fear of God) was a shell bank whose financial transactions were used mainly to support Islamist groups. Established in Nassau, Bahamas in 1988 with funding from the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. The bank included among its investors several members of the bin Laden family. One of its two directors was businessman Youssef Mustafa Nada. Youssef Nada was a Tunisian citizen born in Egypt. A member of the Muslim Brotherhood, chairmn of the Nada Management organisation. (aka al-Taqua management organisation), of Luganoi Switzerland. In 1954 he fled from arrest in Egypt to Libya. (Alms for Jihad ©2006 Burr & Collins).

1954 – Nasser had Qutb jailed, but after 3 months he let him out to be editor of the Muslim brothers magazine,. Al Ikhwan al Muslimin. In Aug 1954 the govt shut the magazine down. 26 Oct 1954 Nasser was in Alexandria, when a member of the Muslim brothers fired 8 shots at him, wounding a guard, and missing Nassser. Nasser had 6 members hanged and people sent to concentration camps. (The looming tower. Lawrence Wright ©2006 US).

1954 – 1966 – Two years after the coup in Egypt that brought Nasser to power, the Muslim Brotherhood was banned again and al-Qutb imprisoned. He was released in 1964, arrested again in 1965, and hanged in 1966. (al-Qaeda ©2004 J Burke).

1955 – The Soviet decision to expand military aid, for the first time, to a Third World country, Egypt. Egypt turned to the Soviet Union in anger, at Western support for the new state of Israel, and lack of similar support for Egypt’s economic and military development. Syria and Iraq had Soviet ties and the PLO also had Soviet ties which included military aid.

7 September 1955 – Egypt announced an arms deal, in which Czech would supply Egypt with Soviet arms. Fighters, bombers, tanks, anti-aircraft guns and bazooka in return for cotton and dried dates. The arms clearly marked the Soviet entry into Egypt. It was the first time that Russia had sent major arms outside its own area of influence, the first of many such incursions. (Arms Bazaar ©1977 Sampson).

1956 – In spring tension between the UK and Egypt was increasing. Nasser began moves which led to the Suez crisis later that year.

1956 – Nasser nationalised the Suez Canal Company, a new flashpoint, the British joined France and Israel to knock out Nasser. So began the second Arab Israel war. After the war the Russians supplied MIG-17 fighters, bombers and submarines. Then after 1959, MIG-18’s and MIG-21’s were supplied. (Arms bazaar ©1977 Sampson).

1956-67 – The ill fated seizure of the Suez canal by the UK and France in 1956 which chilled bilateral relations between them and Arab countries. Egypt’s support for the Algerian revolution and Nasser’s overthrow of King Farouk made the UK and France reject supplying the Nasser regime. So Israel cooperated in the canal seizure and invasion of Egypt and became the leading recipient of Europe’s weapons until the June1967 war.

26 July 1956 – The Suez canal was nationalised. Egypt blockades the straits of Tiran. France UK and Israel take the canal. The US pressures them to withdraw in November.

26 July 1956 – Dulles decided to stop the planned American loan to help Egypt build the Aswan dam on the river Nile. Nasser was getting too close to the Soviet bloc, buying Czech weapons and seeking to undermine the Baghdad pact. US and British intelligence were preparing contingency plans to bring down Nasser. (Cold war ©1993 M Walker).

31 Oct 1956 – The first sea lord Mountbatten and the cold war. The old PM Eden to stop the war, but troops were sent to Egypt. Troops and the Suez canal. (Who do you think you are, mag. April 2014 UK).

Late 1950’s – At Saudi Arabia’s Abdullah Tariki’s insistence the Arab league economic council convened its first Arab oil Congress in Cairo. Two non-Arab delegations were invited to attend Iran and Venezuela. (Yamani ©1988 J Robinson).

17 Feb 1957 – The Suez canal re-opened. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history. 17 Feb 2016).

4 April 1957 – E Herbert Norman Canadian diplomat in Cairo Egypt. Toronto Daily. Media blackout. Rumours and slander circulated. Suspicious death. (Great unsolved mysteries in Canadian history. Internet).

4 April 1957 – Canadian diplomat Herbert Norman, who went to Trinity college Cambridge UK with Paddy Costello, another Soviet spy. High commisioner to New Zealand in 1953. He allegedly jumped off the roof of an 8 storey apartment bulding in Cairo. Aged 47. Allegations of Communist spying. (Spies revolutionaries. Graeme Hunt (c)2007 NZ).

1959-67 – Raul Castro and Che Guevara visited Cairo. They made contact with the African liberation movements, stationed in and supported by Cairo. Both Cuban leaders also visited Gaza and showed support for the Palestinians.

1960 – The conflict between Saud al Faisal in Saudi Arabia, created by the Free Princes led by prince Talal, cane to a head, when prince Talal and the others quit and went to live in Egypt. (Yamani ©1988 J Robinson).

1960 – Dr Mohammed Rabie al Zawahiri and his wife Umayma moved from Heliopolis to Maadi. Rabie and Umayma in Egypt. Rabie was a professor of pharmacology at Ain Shams university. 31 member of the al Zawahiri family were doctors or chemists. (The looming tower. Lawrence Wright ©2006 US).

1960’s – Early and mid 1960’s Saudi intelligence Kamal Adham was friendly with Anwar Sadat of Egypt. One way he cultivated Sadat was by giving hundreds of millions in Saudi funds to him and Egypt.

1960-62 – Lev Alexeyevich Bausin was a KGB agent in Cairo. Nikolai Fyodorovich was the KGB resident in the Soviet embassy in Cairo. Foreign posting in 1960 as attache cover. The cold war was underway in 1962. He was also in Iraq 1967-68 in south Yemen 1969-71 and Lebanon 1976-78. (Under cover lives ©1998 H Womack).

1963 – Islamic banking attributed to the Egyptian economist Ahmad al-Najjar, who in 1963 created the Mit cham savings bank in Cairo. (Alms for Jihad ©2006 Burr & Collins).

January 1964 – The PLO had its origins at the Cairo summit of Arab states. Egyptian President Nasser had the main influence. (Compassionate peace ©1982 AFSC).

May 1964 – Nikita Khrushchev arrived in Cairo for a two week visit. After docking at Alexandria he travelled with Nasser by train to Cairo. Kremlin leader Khrushchev said he was waiving half of Egypt’s debt, for tanks, planes and anti-aircraft defences from Moscow. The Soviet leader officially opened the Aswan dam and toured an irrigation project on the Nile with Nasser. (Under cover lives ©1998 H Womack).

1965 – Archeology excavations in the late 1960s at Saqqara in Egypt. Ostraca with text in Demotic, 650 and 400 BC. Written by a scribe, prophecies based on his dreams. (The biblical world. Jean Pierre Isbouts. (c)2007 US).

April Aug 1966 – The trial in Egypt of Sayyed Qutb on 19 April 1966. Three months later Sayyid Qutb was hanged on 29 Aug 1966. (The looming tower. Lawrence Wright ©2006 US).

29 Aug 1966 – Sayyid Qutb was hanged in Egypt. (Jihad. Gilles Kepel © 2002 UK).

1967 – Wallas EA Budge. The Egyptian book of the dead. NY. Dover publications inc.

5 June 1967 – A wave of Israeli Mirages swept low across the Nile valley. below the radar curtain and dropped their bombs on the MIGs, parked on the Egyptian airfields. By the end of the day the Israeli planes had destroyed 300 Egyptian planes and 19 air bases and could occupy the Sinai desert the West bank and Golan heights. The third Arab Israeli war. (Arms bazaar ©1977 Sampson).

1 Sept 1968 – Mohammed Atta was born in Egypt. 28 Sept 2014 9/11 myths.

1970 – Within weeks of Nasser’s death, King Faisal sent Adham to Cairo to see Sadat, asking him to cut ties to the Soviets in exchange for aid.

1970 – Nasser died suddenly of a heart attack in 1970. His successor was Anwar Sadat. (The looming tower. Lawrence Wright ©2006 US).

February 1970 – France’s Pompidou under criticism from Israel sold Mirages to Libya, where Colonels had seized power. Libya loaned some of the Mirages to Egypt. (Arms bazaar ©1977 Sampson).

August – September 1970 – Nasser dies in September and he was followed by Sadat. After the August ceasefire, in the war of attrition. (Arms bazaar ©1977 Sampson).

28 September 1970 – Death of Nasser.

15 Jan 1971 – The Aswan dam opened in Egypt. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history 15 Jan 2016).

28 November 1971 – PM Wasfi Tal of Jordan was assassinated in Cairo. Four Black September members was arrested then freed in 1973.

1972 – In Egypt Khashoggi planned a $400 million trade centre near the Giza pyramids to include two big hotels, a tourist centre and a new pyramid faced with gold mirrors with an Egyptian exhibition inside. (Arms bazaar ©1977 Sampson).

19 February 1972 – The hijacking of a Jordanian plane was foiled in Cairo with one arrest.

July 1972 – Sadat expelled the Russians from Egypt. The Soviets left behind their arsenal including 1,700 tanks, 620 planes and 130 SAM missile sites. Moscow was still able to strengthen its ties with Syria and Iraq. Ten years of arming Egypt. (Arms bazaar ©1977 Sampson).

13 July 1972 – Sadat gave 15,000 Soviet military advisors one week to leave Egypt. He made all Soviet military bases, built since 1967, Egyptian property.

1973 – Egypt expelled 20,000 Soviet military advisors. Anwar Sadat. The Suez canal. (Gideons spies. Gordon Thomas (c)2008 UK).

1974 – al Zawahiri’s terrorist cell had 40 members in Egypt. Three years as a surgeon with the Egyptian army. (The looming tower. Lawrence Wright (c)2006 US).

17 Feb 1974 – 49 people died in a stampede at a soccer game in Cairo. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history. 17 Feb 2016).

1976 – Founded the Islamic bank of Egypt. FIBE. Saudi prince Mohammad al Faisal.

1976 – Faisal Islamic bank of Egypt FIBE part of a banking empire, built by Saudi prince Mohammed el Faisal . Muslim brotherhood and the blind sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman. FIBE was linked to BCCI . When BCCI closed it had a least $589 million in “unknown deposits” in UAE.

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Dec 1977 – 53 year old David Holden was a reporter for London’s Sunday Times. He was killed in Cairo, execution style at close range. A bullet to the back of his head. His body was dumped in a ditch on the outskirts of Cairo and stripped of ID. Holden was working on a book, about Saudi Arabia called the House of Saud. Unsolved murder. (Gerald S Posner. Secrets of the kingdom ©2005 US).

Feb 1978 – al Zawahiri got married at the Continental Savoy hotel in Cairo. (The looming tower. Lawrence Wright ©2006 US).

Oct 1981 – President Anwar Sadat of Egypt was assassinated. (BBC UK 7 Oct 2015).

6 Oct 1981 – Anwar Sadat was assassinated. By Egyptian Islamic Jihad major Ali Abdel Saoua Mohamed. (Peter Lance Triplecross).

12 Oct 1992 – A 5.8 earthquake killed 552 people. USGS historic world earthquakes.

Aug 1993 - al Zawahiri and al Jihad in Egypt. Egypt’s Interior minister Hasan al Alfi and a bomb laden motorcycle exploded next to the minister’s car, killing the bomber and accomplice. It broke the ministers arm but he survived. (The looming tower. Lawrence Wright ©2006 US).

1995 – Christopher Dunn. The Giza power plant. Technology of ancient Egypt. US Bear and co.

2002 – The use and abuse of information. Ibn al Shaykh al Libi, an al Qaeda prisoner in early 2002, was tortured in Egypt. (The 9/11 wars. Jason Burke ©2011).

26 Jan 2011 – Egypt protests. Three people were killed in a day of revolt. BBC UK.

28 Jan 2011 – Egypt's police use US made tear gas on demonstrators. ABC news.

4 Feb 2011 – P Chatterjee. Egypt's military industrial complex. The Guardian UK.

2 March 2011 – Where is Hosni Mubarak's money? Ask front man Hussein Salem. ABC news radio.

10 November 2012 – 10,000 people rally in Cairo demanding Sharia law. Islam and the Muslim brotherhood. Arutz sheva.

11 November 2012 – In Cairo Egypt a baby trafficking ring was broken up. Safe world for women. BBC. Arrested nurses and doctors. Kevin Connolly Cairo.

12 November 2012 – Destroy the idols. Egyptian Jihadists, with links to the Taliban, call for removal of the sphinx and pyramids. Al Arabiya news.

12 November 2012 – About 30,000 Salafists staged a rally demanding Shariah law in Egypt. Examiner.com Cairo. By Jim Kouri.

13 November 2012 – Growing ties between Egypt and Turkey may signal a new regional order. Cairo by Jeffrey Fleishman. Los Angeles Times.

13 November 2012 – Zawahiri calls on Muslims to impliment Sharia. By Thomas Joscelyn. Site intel group. The long war journal, foundation for defence of democracies.

16 November 2012 – Egypt, Gaza and the Sanai peninsula. Stratfor.

16 November 2012 – Thousands of Egyptians protest in Cairo and Alexandria, against Israel’s operation in Gaza, after Egypt’s PM visits Gaza. The Times of Israel.

3 July 2014 – Allegations of systematic rape in Egypt’s prisons. President Sisi. Women are raped inside police stations and prison transfer vehicles. Raped more than 14 times in one day at riot police training camp. Rape as a weapon. Middle East Eye. Anadolu agency.

31 Oct 2014 – CT scans were done on three Egyptian mummies. Washington uni in St Louis. Michael Purdy. Evidence of grave robbers. You Tube. Science and tech.

22 Jan 2015 – Daily news Egypt. In harms path, a new book about al Qaeda and 9/11. A bookshop in Zamalek Egypt. Yousry Fouda’s book. Fe Tareeq al Atha.

27 July 2015 – Antiquity collecting from heritage sites. Archeology artefacts and Egyptian smuggling, transnational organised crime. Artefacts stolen from museums. Trafficking. Interpol.

13 July 2015 – Egypt's government seized guns, drugs and stolen art in an operation targeting illicit goods. Interpol.

31 July 2015 – Egypt arrests 15 Muslim Brotherhood members in Suez as work begins on the Canal project. Twitter. Press TV.

7 Nov 2015 – Infrared scans show hidden chambers in King Tutankhaman's tomb. Egypt's ministry of antiquies. Care2. Marty.

7 Nov 2015 – Egypt is scanning Nefertiti's tomb. The university of Arizona archeology. Tutankhaman, buried in an underground chamber. Yahoo news. Daily mail.

10 Nov 2015 – Egypt's Giza pyramids. Cairo, thermal scanning of the pyramids 4,500 year old burial sites. Maram Mazen. AP. Yahoo news.

17 Nov 2015 – Egypt arrested two airport workers suspected of involvement in the bombing of a Russian plane. Two workers from Sham el-Sheikh airport. The Russian Metrojet plane crashed on 31 Oct 2015. Reuters. RT. G+.

4 Dec 2015 – 18 people were killed in a Cairo nightclub firebombing. A molotov cocktail attack on a Cairo nightclub. G+. RT. Al-Jazeera.

26 Jan 2016 – The revolution in Egypt is not over. Haaretz. http://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/.premium-1.699484

18 June 2016 – BBC UK. The Egyptians who disappear. Forced disappearances by government in Egypt.

5 July 2016 – Egyptian organ traffickers are smuggling women and children. People smugglers. Daily Mail UK. Sicily Italy say peopl.e are sold for organs on the black market. Hannah Roberts. Immigrants in Italy. Kill and transplant refugee's organs. Poor people are sold to traffickers for their organs.

5 July 2016 – Intel news. Egypt's president removes spy officials, after human rights violations report. Joseph Fitsanakis. 17 Egyptian intel officials fired. GID officers in Egypt.