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	Al Fayyum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Al Fayyum or El Faiyûm (Arabic: الفيوم ; Coptic Ph-iom or Fiûm), formerly Medinet al Fayyum (written in several different ways), is the capital of Al Fayyum Governorate, Egypt.
		It is located southwest of Cairo and has a population of 166,910; it occupies part of the ancient site of Crocodilopolis.
		While part of the Roman Empire, Egyptian death masks were painted on wood in a pigmented wax technique called encaustic, and the mummy portrait from al Fayyum representes this technique.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Al_Fayyum (194 words)

	Fayyum, Egypt
		Fayyum offer may attractions to visitors in the tranquil beauty of its scenery and its remains of the past.
		The Fayyum Oasis is in the form of a triangle with rounded corners and its point to the south, extending 40mi/65km from east to Wat its widest part and 30mi/ 50km from north to south.
		In prehistoric times the Fayyum Depression was probably still covered by the waters of an arm of the Nile dating from the Pliocene era which here formed an extensive lake and swamp area with luxuriant vegetation and abundant animal life.
	www.planetware.com /egypt/fayyum-egy-elfay-fayy.htm (831 words)

	World Art Treasures:The Fayyum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Fayyum played a significant role during the 12th Dynasty, and later under the Ptolemies.
		The Fayyum portraits conflict in an intriguing manner, scattered as they are around the world in museums and collections and, which, here, bring together the image to be viewed as a whole.
		An ideal museum, which may be visited city by city, to which we soon become attached, to the extent that, during the visit, already familiar traits await us, as one of this art's truly ambiguous features is its ability to multiply effigies which, at first sight, quickly, even too quickly, elicit a feeling of déjà-vu.
	www.bergerfoundation.ch /Fayoum (156 words)

	Wikinfo \| Al Fayyum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Al Fayyum is one of the governorates of Egypt located in the centre of the country.
		Having an area of 490 mile² (1,270 km²), Al Fayyum is an oasis and a distinctive region in character between the main Nile Valley and other desert oases: its fields are watered by a channel of the Nile, the Bahr Yussef, as it drains into a desert depression to the west of the Nile Valley.
		Differing from the typical oasis, whose fertility depends on water obtained from springs, the cultivated land in the Fayyum is formed of Nile mud brought down by the Bahr Yusuf.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Fayum (875 words)

	Middle East Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Pro-reform activists have escalated their campaign for constitutional and political reforms in the country in recent weeks, with many calling on the veteran leader to step down when his mandate expires later this year.
		Police clashed with hundreds in the town of Fayyum, as well as in Mansura and Zagazig in the Nile Delta region, and fired tear gas to disperse the crowds, the opposition Muslim Brotherhood claimed.
		It said that security forces arrested about 100 protestors in Fayyum and another 100 in Zagazig in a day of coordinated rallies up and down the country that it organized to press for political reforms.
	www.metimes.com /articles/normal.php?StoryID=20050504-021520-8541r (391 words)

	Hermenegildo Bustos
		The Al Fayyum portraits are the final expression of the ancient funerary cults of pharaonic Egypt.
		Two traditions merge in the Al Fayyum sarcophagi: the cult of Os iris (in his Hellenistic identity, Serapis), with its promise of resurrection, and the Roman portrait, which reproduces the physical traits of a person in order to perpetuate his personality.
		The Al Fayyum portraits are part of a religious ritual whose keystone is belief in resurrection.
	home.earthlink.net /~cheetahead/bustos.html (6167 words)

	Fayyum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In Pharaonic times, Fayyum was one of the 20 nomes of Upper Egypt.
		Its capital was "Ihnisia," which after flourishing was renamed "Birsin" or "House of the Crocodile," the sacred animal at that time.
		Fayyum boasts a combination of rural, coastal, desert, and urban environments, and thus holds out great attraction to tourists.
	www.osoris.net /fayoum.html (151 words)

	A Town Full of Gods
		Note also that from the fourth century onwards, when their choice of names makes it possible to identify them, this magic was as much used by Christians as pagans, and spells and invocations, calling on innumerable different 'demons' with extraordinary names, went on being used through the Byzantine period and after the Arab conquest.
		The spread of Christianity in the Fayyum is extraordinarily difficult to document, as it is elsewhere.
		The earliest dateable Christian event in Fayyum is the visit around AD 262 of Dionysios, bishop of Alexandria, and a devoted pupil of Origen, the notoriously extreme ascetic.
	tebtunis.berkeley.edu /lecture/townfull.html (6340 words)

	Predynastic Egypt
		There are indications of seasonal or only temporary occupation of the Al Fayyum in the 6th millennium BC, with food activities centering on fishing, hunting and food-gathering.
		Items dating to this era of the Al Fayyum (5200 BC-4000 BC) include: axes of basalt, dolerite and limestone; a diorite mace head; dolerite vase; a wooden sickle and sickle blades; arrowheads; stone palettes and grain rubbers; silos; dishes, cups, bowls and pots; as well as beads of amazonite (feldspar).
		By 4000 BC we have evidence of pre-dynastic alchemists having invented the use of mortar (masonry) via one of the oldest known of chemical reactions.
	www.crystalinks.com /predynasticegypt.html (783 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.06.41
		The political history of the Ptolemies and their various institutions relating to the administration of the land is outlined also, along with further information on the economic systems as well as land rent, taxes, and types of land.
		The land tenure regime in the Fayyum depression is examined in chapter four (pp.
		The Fayyum was dominated by military settlers and royal land to ensure a ready and loyal fighting force.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2004/2004-06-41.html (1653 words)

	Fathom :: The Source for Online Learning
		These gardens occupied various bits of high ground, but they were most densely concentrated around Alexandria and in the Fayyum, an area in north central Egypt, where the Nile's flow was regulated and a higher proportion of land was devoted to gardens than elsewhere.
		A crocodile niche in the South Temple at Karanis in the Fayyum.
		But most of the Fayyum villages were creations of the Ptolemaic period (4th-1st century BCE), named after Macedonian ancestors, like Karanis, or ancestral gods, like Dionysias, or members of the royal house, like Philadelphia.
	www.fathom.com /feature/2172 (2024 words)

	About Oasis
		The most significant are Fayyum, Kharga, Dakhia, Paris, Farafrah, Bahereya, Siwa and the Qattara Depression.
		Fayyum boosts a combination of rural, coastal, desert, and urban environments, and thus holds out great attractions to tourists.
		Water Wheels: Fayyum boasts of 200 water wheels that are used to irrigate the land (shown to the right).
	www.a-1hotels.com /eg/allaboutegypt/html/about_oasis.html (892 words)

	HAWARA 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The survey was further made possible by the kind collaboration of Mr.
		Ali Mohammad Al-Bazidy, General Director of Fayyum Antiquities, and Mrs.
		The work on the field could be conducted in a most positive way thanks to the kind help of Mr.
	fayum.arts.kuleuven.ac.be /hawara/intro.htm (143 words)

	MEI: Letter from Fayyum
		August 20th, 2003 -- He was waiting for me as I climbed down from the covered truck by the bridge over the irrigation canal in a village in Fayyum.
		He said he was, one of the small farmers whose land had been taken away in 1997.
		In the village of Uta Arun in Fayyum province, the 16 landless families who had benefited from land distribution in 1967 with two feddans (8,000 sq.
	meionline.com /backcover/131.shtml (727 words)

	Project to turn Fayyum monuments into tourist attraction
		Fayyum is a an area rich in its natural and cultural resources.
		A project has been recently initiated in Fayyum by the Supreme Council for Antiquities in cooperation with Piza University to convert Fayyum into a unique cultural city that gives peculiar attention to the environment, to handicrafts and cultural heritage.
		Fayyum on the whole then is to be prepared for receiving large number of tourists.
	www.arabicnews.com /ansub/Daily/Day/020117/2002011745.html (524 words)

	Egyptian Pharaohs
		Sesostris II's greatest achievement was his beginning of the development of the Fayyum, the rich area near the royal residence.
		There, where the lake in the Fayyum received in its flow from a branch stream off the Nile, the king constructed a dam and floodgates to regulate the lake's level and reclaim partly the marshy ground around its shores.
		Egypt was divided into three districts, one from the Delta to the capital in the Fayyum, above Cairo; the second from the capital to Thebes; and the third from Thebes to the southern border.
	www.hooper-home.net /CHRONO/Pharaohs.html (5864 words)

	Middle East Online
		CAIRO - Egyptian riot police fired tear gas Wednesday and clashed with demonstrators in several cities demanding an end to the "dictatorship" of President Hosni Mubarak, arresting more than 200 people, organizers said.
		Police clashed with hundreds in the southern governorate of Fayyum, as well as in Mansura and Zagazig in the delta region, and fired tear gas to disperse the crowds, the Muslim Brotherhood claimed.
		It said security forces arrested about 100 protesters in Fayyum and another 100 in Zagazig in a day of coordinated rallies up and down the country it organized to press for political reforms.
	www.middle-east-online.com /english?id=13407 (370 words)

	EGYPTOLOGY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Topographical survey at the Soknopaiou Nesos site (Fayyum, Egypt) in conjunction with 'The Archaeological Mission of the Universities of Bologna and Lecce led by Professors S. Pernigotti and M. Capasso.
		Collaboration with the 'Mission for the Restoration of Egyptian, Greek and Latin papyri' conserved at the Egyptian Museum of Cairo, led by the 'Centre for Papyrological Studies' of the University of Lecce, led by Prof.
		Meetings with 'The Archaeological Mission of the Universities of Bologna and Lecce' on the Fayyum.
	www.unile.it /ects/cultural/corsi/egy.html (148 words)

	WenkeR_15_1.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Epipaleolithic and Neolithic Subsistence and Settlement in the Fayyum Oasis of Egypt
		Recent research suggests that subsistence changes in NE Africa between 11,000 and 7000 B.P. have significant implications for general models of the origins and spread of agricultural economies.
		In the research reported here, surface collections and excavations were used to investigate the origins of agricultural economies in the Fayyum area of Egypt at about 7000 B.P. The Fayyum data are considered in relation to evidence from other areas and various reconstructions of NE African agricultural origins are discussed.
	www.bu.edu /jfa/Abstracts/W/WenkeR_15_1.html (108 words)

	Oxford University Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Dorothy J. Thompson: Irrigation and Drainage in the Early Ptolemaic Fayyum
		Michael Sharp: The Village of Theadelphia in the Fayyum: Land and Population in the Second Century
		James G. Keenan: Fayyum Agriculture at the End of the Ayyubid Era: Nabulsi's Survey
	www.oup.com /ca/isbn/0-19-726183-3 (430 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Fayyum, Al (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		FAYYUM, AL [Fayyum, Al] see Faiyum, El, Egypt.
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Fayyum, Al" at HighBeam.
		More information is at your fingertips at HighBeam Research:
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/X/X-Fayyum.asp (170 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.11.06
		As well as acting as general editors, Bagnall has written the sections on the Western Oases and the Eastern Desert (Chapters 9 and 10) and Rathbone those on the Delta, Giza, and the Fayyum (Chapters 2.6, 3.3 and 5).
		Chapter 5, The Fayyum, by Rathbone, sensibly begins with a sub-section on Access and what one could reasonably expect to cover on a day trip from Cairo or Giza.
		I was surprised to find that Lake Moeris, the central feature of the Fayyum, was not only misspelled as Moiris (it always has an eta in Greek) but did not appear at all in the general index.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2005/2005-11-06.html (1418 words)

	Egypt - Western Desert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The other major oases form a topographic chain of basins extending from the Al Fayyum Oasis (sometimes called the Fayyum Depression) which lies sixty kilometers southwest of Cairo, south to the Bahriyah, Farafirah, and Dakhilah oases before reaching the country's largest oasis, Kharijah.
		A brackish lake, Birkat Qarun, at the northern reaches of Al Fayyum Oasis, drained into the Nile in ancient times.
		For centuries sweetwater artesian wells in the Fayyum Oasis have permitted extensive cultivation in an irrigated area that extends over 1,800 square kilometers.
	countrystudies.us /egypt/50.htm (407 words)

	Amazon.com: A Guide to the Antiquities of the Fayyum: Books: Mary Ellen Lane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Designed for both interested Egyptians taking day-trips and for foreigners visiting Egypt--this guide is arranged by itineraries and includes the history and archaeology of 19 sites in the Fayyum.
		Lane has lived in Egypt since 1979 is the Asst.
		We know more about Karanis than about any other town in the ancient Fayyum.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/9774240421?v=glance (462 words)

	The World & I Magazine - Peoples
		"I came here from Fayyum," he said, briskly slicing a potato along its length with a small wooden-handled knife.
		He then wrapped it in a page torn from a magazine whose advertisements showed cars, furniture, and other items: things that he will never own.
		His wife and five children remain in Fayyum, far from Cairo, Gomah explained.
	www.worldandi.com /newhome/peoples/2001/1_Jun/Html/page9.asp (189 words)

	Coptic Synexarium
		On this day of the year 280 A.D. a Holy Council assembled in an Antiochian church to judge Paul of Samosat.
		May their prayers and blessings be with us all.
		On this day also was the martyrdom of St. Theophilus and his wife in Fayyum in the days of Emperor Diocletian the infidel.
	www.saintmina-holmdel.org /Synexarium/readday.php?tm=Babah&td=19 (438 words)

	Egypt on the Web (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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		The Fayyum Oasis lies in a depression, right in the Western Desert, about 103 km.
		It is surrounded by high plateaus, and separated from the Nile Valley by a high ridge to the east at al-Lahun.
	www.egyptontheweb.com /soe-theoases.asp (548 words)

	Tourist Attractions in Egypt - Sightseeing in Egypt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		For more background information on Cairo's magnificent history, read this article.
		The oasis of Fayyum is the perfect getaway when the traffic and chaos of Cairo gets to you.
		In and around the Fayyum Oasis there are some ancient Roman sights.
	www.travel-to-egypt.net /tourist-attractions-in-egypt.html (415 words)

	Elara Adventure Travels - Horse Safari Itinerary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		After breakfast, group members will depart Meidum for the Fayyum Oasis.
		In Fayyum, you will have the opportunity to take a felucca (sail) boat ride on the Lake of Quran before having lunch.
		After lunch, you will be transported back to your hotel where you can reclaim your luggage and rest or shop during the afternoon.
	www.eskimo.com /~tlotus/horse_itinerary.htm (566 words)

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