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City in Sharqia, Egypt
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Zagazig (Arabic: الزقازيق, romanized: az-Zaqāzīq) is a town of about 430,000 people (2021) in Lower Egypt, on the Muweis Canal. There is a museum of antiquities, the Sharkeya National Museum (sometimes called the Amed Orabi Museum, at Herriat Raznah) that contains many important archaeological exhibits
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متحف الزعيم أحمد عرابى
Museum dedicated to one of the first nationalist leaders in Egypt who was born here in 1841. Also includes exhibitions on the culture of the Sharqia region.
Bubastis
The ruins of the ancient sacred city of Bastet, the cat goddess. There are ruins of temples and catacombs of sacred cats.
متحف تل بسطة
Museum with Egyptian relics related to Bubastis, in particular to the cat goddess Bastet along with ushabti statues and mummies of the 18th dynasty. Pottery and mummy preservation stuff.
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By bus
You can reach the city by the Public Bus Service which is being run by "East of Delta co." or "Shark Al-Delta" as pronounced in Arabic.
By train
5 hours away from Cairo. Zagazig railway station is centrally located at Orabi square.
By taxi
From Aboud station you can reach the city using the road which connects "Cairo-Banha-Minyat Al Kamh- Zagazig" or From the El salam station "Locally widely known as Al aashr station" using the desert…
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