Pharaonic Village
Costumed living-history island recreating ancient Egyptian daily life, reached only by boat.
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This guide to Pharaonic Village follows Hassan Ragab, a former ambassador, general and engineer who returned from China needled by one fact: Egypt had invented paper thousands of years earlier and forgotten how to make it. It traces his four years of failed experiments with imported papyrus reeds, his eventual 1966 breakthrough, and the far stranger project it led him to on the island behind you. Even his own wife, he admitted, did not believe what he was building here.
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