People & stories

Behind every view there are people: warlords who founded cities, exiled poets, architects who gave their lives to a single church. Here are 162 historical figures linked to our destinations and 1161 local stories. History and folk legend are labelled separately, and every story has a source.

埃及

Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt · c. 1303–1213 BC

Ramesses II

Pharaoh of ancient Egypt, 'Ramesses the Great'

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20th century · 1874–1939

Howard Carter

British archaeologist who discovered Tutankhamun's tomb

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c. 70/69 BC–10 or 12 August 30 BC (uncertain)

Cleopatra VII, Greek: Κλεοπάτρα Φιλοπάτωρ, full name Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator

c. 70/69–30 BC, last queen of the Ptolemaic dynasty and Egypt's last actual ruler.

摩洛哥

9th century · c. 800–c. 880

Fatima al-Fihri

Founder of the al-Qarawiyyin Mosque (and university)

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24 or 25 February 1304–1368 or 1369 (uncertain)

Ibn Battuta, full name Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Battuta, Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد بن بطوطة

1304–c. 1368/1369, Moroccan traveller and jurist, author of the *Rihla* (*Travels*).

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