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Faiyum (/faɪˈjuːm/ fy-YOOM; Arabic: الفيوم, romanized: el-
Fayyūm,
locally [elfæjˈjuːm]) is a city in
Middle Egypt.
Located 100
kilometres (62 miles) southwest...
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Faiyum Governorate (Arabic: محافظة الفيوم Muḥāfāzah Al
Fayyūm) is one of the
governorates of
Egypt in the
middle of the country. Its capital...
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Faiyum Oasis (Arabic: واحة الفيوم Wāḥat al-
Fayyum) is a
depression or
basin in the
desert immediately west of the Nile river, 62
miles south of Cairo...
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Mummy portraits or
Fayum mummy portraits are a type of
naturalistic painted portrait on
wooden boards attached to
upper class mummies from
Roman Egypt...
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Fayyum Fragment (Papyrus
Vindobonensis Gr**** 2325 [P.
Vienna G. 2325]) is a
papyrus fragment containing text that
could be from part of the New Testament...
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Itjtawy has not been
discovered yet, but it is
thought to be near the
Fayyum,
probably near the
royal graveyards at el-Lisht. The
order of its rulers...
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depression descends from
south to north.
While the
central town of al-
Fayyūm is
still around 24 m
above sea level, the
water surface of Lake
Qarun is...
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question of the race of the
ancient Egyptians was
raised historically as a
product of the
early racial concepts of the 18th and 19th centuries, and...
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Peter include the
Secret Book of
James and the Acts of Peter. In the
Fayyum Fragment,
which dates to the end of the 3rd century,
Jesus predicts that...
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Beginning with the
Twelfth Dynasty, the
waterway was
enlarged and the
Fayyum was
developed to
enlarge Lake
Moeris (now
Birket Qarun). The
canal was built...
