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  • homeless dogs are everywere in Egypt. Even on the beach, like here in Sharm el Sheikh, but in touristic places they are usually chasen away. Cats and dogs used to be holy animals in ancient Egypt, but not any more.
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  • homeless dogs are everywere in Egypt. Even on the beach, like here in Sharm el Sheikh, but in touristic places they are usually chasen away.
    sharmdog.jpg
  • Skulptures of Basted, The Cat Godess, is sold everywere on tourist markets in Egypt. And also used as decoration, like here outside a casino in Sharm El Sheikh.  But live cats, who were ones holy creatures, are in no high esteem today. At Beni Hasan, an Egyptian archeological site, more than 300,000 mummified cats were unearthed. Cats were regarded with something approaching veneration, to the extent that to kill one was a capital offence. Cats and dogs used to be holy animals in ancient Egypt, but not any more.
    sheikhcats.jpg
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