You're going to be here. around the year 1200 AD, the medieval Arab traveler and scholar Abd al-Latif al-Bagdadi

departed from his hometown of Baghdad and set out on a journey of exploration.

As a young man, al-Bagdadi had studied law, medicine and philosophy, and was inspired by the works of classical philosophers, in particular Aristotle.

At the turn of the 13th century, Al-Baggedadi embarked on a series of journeys

that would take him to many of the great cities in the region.

He travelled to Mosul, to Jerusalem, Damascus, and Aleppo, and eventually around the year

1204, his journey took him across the Sinai Desert to the banks of the Nile.

On his travels, Al-Bagdadi wrote a book that was part travel account and part philosophy,

entitled The Book of Edification and Admonition.

In it, he recalls the remarkable impression that Egypt made on him.

In the Urdom, his Ram in the Bilal al-Bilah al-Jibati al-Athera, Egypt is a land of wondrous monuments and strange stories.

It consists of a valley and the land of wondrous monuments and strange stories.

It consists of a valley enclosed by two ranges of hills,

one to the east and one to the west.

The Nile runs between them until it reaches lower Egypt, where it divides into branches, all of which flow out into the sea.

The Nile is unusual for its length.

We know of no other river in the inhabited world that covers a greater distance.

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and the mooratineh a badmassafetan minute As al-Bagdah al-Bagdadir, as well as I'm gonna.

As al-Bagdadi travelled around Egypt,

he was struck by the incredible variety of ancient remains he saw, great temples of stone and tomb complexes

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