Faiyum
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Oct 26, 2026
K.J. SheehanHOST
They told him that there were 1,500 more chambers below ground level, but they were sacred and strictly off limits.
K.J. SheehanHOST
Yeah, these lower vaults held the royal crypts of kings who designed the installation alongside secret subterranean crypts dedicated to Sobek, who was the crocodile god of Fyum.
K.J. SheehanHOST
All right.
K.J. SheehanHOST
The crocodile god of Fyum? Fyum.
K.J. SheehanHOST
That's the place.
K.J. SheehanHOST
F-A-I-Y-U-M.
Sandy RueveHOST
We went to two oasises.
Sandy RueveHOST
One was part of the retreat, which was Fayum.
Sandy RueveHOST
And then the other oasis, which was the big one, Siwa, which is Cleopatra's hangout.
Sandy RueveHOST
That was an add-on.
Campbell PriceGUEST
It's been pretty comprehensively emptied since.
Campbell PriceGUEST
But he finds Fayoum Porters.
Campbell PriceGUEST
And he describes, he's got a beautiful description of the richly stitched, he's very impressed by the wrapping.
Campbell PriceGUEST
So it's not just gold, it's the wrapping styles, it's these painted faces.
Synthetic SalmaHOST
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Synthetic SalmaHOST
Second, the government's inching closer to running trial runs at three strategic warehouses in Fayoum, Suez, and Luxor.
Synthetic SalmaHOST
The extra space would let the state stock up on wheat and other staples for longer, and we're told four additional sites that'll be offered under public-private partnerships are on the agenda.
Synthetic SalmaHOST
Third, Hatem Duwadar, who's the former CEO of Itasalat, has taken a direct stake in the customer experience startup Tactful AI through an extension of its pre-series A-Round.
Aryeh RotenbergHOST
It's about 24 kilometers.
Aryeh RotenbergHOST
Went into the deep depression of Fayum.
Aryeh RotenbergHOST
And he brought water to the deep depression and became a great lake.
Aryeh RotenbergHOST
And this is where Israel lived.
Aryeh RotenbergHOST
in the Egyptian, by the Egyptians with that name, they called the place the People of the Lake.
Aryeh RotenbergHOST
This was the west side of the Nile.
Aryeh RotenbergHOST
And Joseph had prepared that place, Goshen, by creating this canal before the Suez Canal, a canal that brought water to the Fayum area.
Aryeh RotenbergHOST
And up to this day, it's a very, very productive area.
Heather M. ByeNARRATOR
Amten was no sooner ennobled than his functions began to expand.
Heather M. ByeNARRATOR
Villages were rapidly added to villages, then towns to towns, including such an important one as Buto, and finally the nomes of the harpoon, of the bull, of the silurus, the western half of the Saite nome, the nome of the haunch, and part of the Fayyum came within his jurisdiction.
Heather M. ByeNARRATOR
The western half of the Saite nome, where he long resided, corresponded with what was later called the Libyan nome.
Heather M. ByeNARRATOR
It reached from the apex of the delta to the sea, and was bounded on one side by the Canopic branch of the Nile, on the other by the Libyan range, a part of the desert as well as the oasis fell under its rule.
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Heather M. ByeNARRATOR
From the beginning of the fourth to the end of the fourteenth dynasty, during more than fifteen hundred years, the construction of pyramids was a common state affair, provided for by the administration, secured by special services.
Heather M. ByeNARRATOR
Not only did the pharaohs build them for themselves, but the princes and princesses belonging to the family of the pharaohs constructed theirs, each one according to his resources.
Heather M. ByeNARRATOR
Three of the secondary mausoleums are arranged opposite the eastern side of the horizon, three opposite the southern face of the supreme, and everywhere else, near Abusir, at Saqqara, at Dahshur, or in the Fayyum, the majority of the royal pyramids attracted around them a more or less numerous cortege of pyramids of princely foundation, often debased in shape and faulty in proportion.
Heather M. ByeNARRATOR
The materials for them were brought from the Arabian chain.
Heather M. ByeNARRATOR
According to the Egyptians, Menes, the first of their mortal kings, had found, so they said, the valley under water.
Heather M. ByeNARRATOR
The sea came in almost as far as the Fayum, and excepting the province of Thebes, the whole country was a pestilential swamp.
Heather M. ByeNARRATOR
Hence the necessary period for the physical formation of Egypt would cover some centuries after Menes.
Heather M. ByeNARRATOR
This is no longer considered a sufficient length of time, and some modern geologists declare that the Nile must have worked at the formation of its own estuary for at least 74,000 years.
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Heather M. ByeNARRATOR
Bastet of Bubastis was a cat or a tigress, while Nekhebit of El-Kab was a great bald-headed vulture.
Heather M. ByeNARRATOR
Hermopolis worshipped the ibis and Cenocephalus of Thoth.
Heather M. ByeNARRATOR
Oxyrhynchus, the Mormyrus fish, and Ombos and the Fayum a crocodile, under the name of Subku, sometimes with the epithet of Azay, the brigand.
Heather M. ByeNARRATOR
We cannot always understand what led the inhabitants of each nome to affect one animal rather than another.
EmilyHOST
They appeared to be a peaceful expedition, but they all carried arms hidden in their robes.
EmilyHOST
And then when they reached the white tent at the center of Al-Fayyum, they withdrew their scimitars and rifles and they attacked an empty tent.
EmilyHOST
At that point, the men of the oasis had surrounded the horsemen or the tribesmen that had come there from the desert.
EmilyHOST
And within half an hour, all but one of the intruders were dead.
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