The World – January 14, 2023

American billionaire Elon Musk participated،

The CEO of Tesla and the owner of Twitter, tweeted a video of the Egyptian temple of El-Dandara, located in the governorate of Qena in Upper Egypt, and commented," ancient Egypt was glowing".

The video clip shared by Musk on his account included showing several Catacombs inside the temple, and their walls decorated with impressive pharaonic drawings.

Within hours of Musk posting the tweet, it met with great interaction as it achieved more than 8.5 million views, more than 70 thousand likes, and more than 4245 thousand retweets.

Community Stars and officials in Egypt reacted to the tweet posted by Musk, and most of the comments were invitations for Musk to visit Egypt to learn more about it.

At the forefront of the commentators was the Egyptian Minister of international cooperation Rania Al-Mashat, who said: "Come join us and discover more untold stories about ancient Egypt at the Grand Egyptian Museum with the complete and unprecedented collection of King Tutankhamun.

Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass commented on Musk's tweet, saying that it is the best advertising for tourism in Egypt, which is free, and did not cost the state a single dollar.

Billionaire Egyptian businessman Naguib Sawiris only commented using "emoji" to express his happiness with Musk's tweet.

"Everything is still there, you can come to check it,"media personality Sharif Amer also wrote.

The comedian Mohamed heneidi joked with Musk and invited him to visit Egypt and wrote to him:" come here in Egypt and I will be your guide".

The famous journalist Amr Adib called on the Egyptian government to act quickly and invite Musk to visit Cairo, saying, "I would if the Egyptian government sent him immediately a private plane to answer him to the temple of Dandara".

Egyptian tweeters agreed that Musk's tweet is very important and useful for stimulating tourism.

He called on the tweeters to take advantage of the large views that accompanied the video of the temple, quickly start promotional campaigns for the site, and introduce the world to it more, especially since there was a rush of foreigners who watched the video, asked about the details of the construction of the temple and its history.

Some Egyptians in the comments gave a detailed explanation about the temple, the way it was built, and how it was designed.

Some of the explanations were :

The temple was built to worship Hathor, the God of love and beauty of the ancient Egyptians.

It was built in the Greco-Roman era by King Ptolemy III.

Its construction lasted for 200 years.

It is characterized by being decorated with hieroglyphs.

The vaults inside it were dedicated to the celebration of the holidays of ancient Egypt.