"This is Deir el-Bahri (Arabic الدير البحري ad-dayr al-baḥrī), and it's
exactly where terrorists from the Islamic Group and Jihad Talaat
al-Fath ("Holy War of the Vanguard of the Conquest")
massacred 62 people in 1997. Since then, Egypt's tourism industry went
drastically down, until this day.
When entering the site, it is hard not to think of this story and and
focus on the historic value of the site, as the mortuary temple of
Mentuhotep II."Our guide told us that there was only one guard for this site when the massacre occurred. President Mubarak flew down to the site and was filmed kicking his Interior Minister for letting this happen.
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