One day, quite 100 million years ago, dinosaurs, the most important inhabited land in history, lived within the Nile Valley, specifically within the Faiyum and Beni Suef region, which was considered the shore of a large sea called the "Tethys Ocean", from which only the sea remained.
For nearly half a century, the Egyptian government decided to create a canal and tunnel through the Western Sahara, eight kilometres long, from the western side of the low-lying Faiyum region, which led to the flow of surplus agricultural wastewater from the Faiyum Oasis to wadi al-Rayyan, creating
Faiyum mummy portraits are described as the oldest portrayal of the human face. For the first time in history, and instead of depicting the person laterally, even if the body was drawn from the front or the back, as shown in Pharaonic temples’ paintings, Faiyum portraits depict the person
