Sweatshirts have an interesting history. They are believed to be the criminal’s garments who wear hooded sweatshirts in order to avoid being identified by surveillance cameras. But they are not actually criminal’s uniform, they are a casual piece of clothing that can carry funny messages or names of athletic teams or heroes, because again a sweatshirt can be the perfect wear for all of those who love going to the gym or running in the park. Remember that a sweatshirt is not an appropriate outfit for anything but casual occasions like spending a Sunday afternoon on the playground with your kids, playing football with your friends or going for a yoga class.

Sweatshirts have become very popular nowadays, when everybody wants to feel comfortable at home and get rid of the classic working suit. There are lots of online gift shops that sell different models of sweatshirts. Here you can find a funny sweatshirt like this Batman hooded sweatshirt. This will definitely make you feel like a superhero and let’s face it you actually are as you have survived another week. If you don’t feel funny at all, there are somesweatshirts gift shops that sell some “serious” merchandise.

Go for the Vasco da Gama sweatshirt if you are an adventurous explorer trapped in a corporate office or try the Namibia seal one. It is perfect for the tire-because-I studied-all-night-long students. They all are at bargain prices of $30. Also, search for the Indian States Waduwan sweatshirt, it sounds complicated but it looks even more interesting. If you are into the Egyptian culture, we have the perfect couch potato uniform: the Egyptian cotton sweatshirt. You can choose your print from tens of “classic” Egyptian Hieroglyphics. You can also find Nefertiti, Tutankhamen, Imhotep and all the others Egyptian VIPs. The prices vary between $30 and $34 and they depend on the size in which you want to receive the products. There are three available sizes.

A sweatshirt is supposed to be funny. We have some hilarious ones for you. Buy the “One by one the penguins are stealing my sanity” or go for the “If I won the lottery, I wouldn’t be one of those people who immediately quit their jobs. I’d make my boss’s life hell for a week or two first.” Remember that if you decide to buy the last one you should stay away from lottery tickets or your boss. Hard to believe or not, from a sweatshirt gift shop you can buy a vintage item, perfect for your father who does not stop collecting things.

A “classic” one, a crazy one, a handmade one or just a commercial funny one, sweatshirts have no age and they go perfectly with any kind of personality, job or financial status. What’s more can be said: they are great.

Egypt … a word that has a special attraction for many, a gateway to another world, to the cradle of past civilizations, but having a history that crossed over the ages. With a strong resonance Egypt became a “commercial” subject, many gift shops specializing in selling products that remind us of the pharaohs and the gods of the past. Let’s see, together which are the offers within various Egyptian gift shops.

Hand painted papyrus – They are the most popular souvenirs from the Egyptian gift shops. They are manufactured by a special technology and represent the Egyptian gods, pharaohs’ faces or scenes from the Egyptian mythology. Among the most popular images are those of Tutankhamen, Nefertiti, Isis, Anubis and Bastet. Not all the papyruses are original and many stores are relying on the fact that tourists do not know how to distinguish a fake one from a really papyrus. In some gift shops you will receive a certificate of authenticity, but many times, this one could also be fake!

Jewelry
It is known that the Egyptians worshiped the gold, because, according to their tradition, this noble metal covered the gods and pharaohs’ skin. The most common ones are the jewelry representing Egyptian motifs, bracelets worn on the forearm, and pendants in the shape of the bracket. Among the most common motifs on the Egyptian jewels are the ones presenting Queen Nefertiti, the Eye of Horus, and the Egyptian Ankh cross. The jewelry adorned with semiprecious stones presents a decreasing popularity in comparison to the ones made up of gold. The stones that are more often encountered in jewelry are the onyx and the nacre. Amulets, beaded jewelry or made of lace, copper jewelry are very well sold in Egyptian gift shops. Many gift shops sell pendants representing various figures of gods or pharaohs.

Perfumes and essences
Famous since the days of Cleopatra, natural perfume essences made Egypt even more famous for thousands of years. There are gift shops specializing in essential oils; fragrance oils and perfume essences are sold per gram. On the market there are more than 200 different essences, the most famous one being lotus and papyrus. Also, you’ll probably hear that some essences are aphrodisiacs. In the gift shops you will find entire collections of miniature bottles for perfumes and essences, richly ornamented, sometimes inlaid with pearls, which can be a gift great for your friends.

Decorative objects
Extremely popular in Egyptian gift shops are the Egyptian statues representing gods or pharaohs, glass and porcelain items (pots, plates, mugs with Egyptian motifs, ashtrays, boxes), and objects made of copper and brass (especially tea service, lamps, lanterns, candlesticks). In what concerns the most common themes it can be said that they are encountered in all sorts of objects made in the shape of scarabs and the vessels in which, according to Egyptian traditions, pharaoh’s organs were kept in the funeral ritual.

Alabaster objects
In gift shops there are sold plenty of pots, trays, decorative objects, chess sets, lamps, figurines and boxes in a variety of colors, from creamy white to dark green and gray. But beware of fake ones! Many of the objects are replicas of alabaster, actually being made of granite.

Beauty accessories
Queen Cleopatra represented a beauty standard in the ancient world, being the owner of well-kept beauty secrets recipes. Today, her face or name is associated with many lines of cosmetics, jewelry or perfume brands. Various objects made to represent beauty are included among the best selling products in the Egyptian gift shops.

So, if you or you friends are passionate about Egypt, you will have plenty of options where to choose from if you go into an Egyptian gift shop.

Egyptian civilization is one of the oldest and renowned in the whole history of mankind. Every body knows about the Egyptian dynasties and the two kingdoms along the Nile  River united under Pharao rules. Whoever reads the Bible finds the Egyptian kings there especially in the times of Moses, who took his people out of the Pharao’s land.

Ancient history going back some three millenium before Christ interlaces with more recent history events: the Greek period of Egypt called the Ptolemy era when ancient Egyptian culture interrelated with the Greek civilization resulting in the great city of Alexandria and the renowned Library of Alexandria, the greatest library in the world at that time. It was then that Europeans had a chance to read the Jewish sacred books called Ancient Testament in Greek: seventy learned Jewish scholars residing in Alexandria set out to translate the Scripture into Greek. The result of their work was called the Septuagint (reminding of their number) and is was the referential old Scripture text throughout all Christian patristic era.

A few years before Christ Egypt recorded another glorious moment through the Queen Cleopatra who went down in history for her beauty, cleverness and the capacity to manipulate the rulers of Rome (the great Julius Caesar and the valiant Marcus Antonius) into doing her bidding.

Egypt enjoyed six centuries of Christian culture until it was conquered by the emerging Moslem religion in 639 AD. During this period Egypt was one of the Patriarchates of the Ancient Church with worldwide known theologians such as Origenus, Athanasius or the controversial Cyril. Egypt desert gave the world the greatest Christian hermit tradition and another referential book, the Paterikon which comprises the story of the hermits above-mentioned.

After the conquest of Egypt by the Moslems, Egypt became a Kaliphate and a new culture emerged.

Giving that outstanding historical record, it comes as no surprise that Egypt is one of the most desired tourist destinations in the whole world. Everyone wants to see the pyramids, Luxor, Alexandria or Cairo or the renowned papyrus.

Once in Cairo, one of the most desired items we want to buy at the gift shops in the center of the city is the papyrus. There is an entire industry specialized in manufacturing replicas of the ancient papyri used in the old days of Egypt as we use paper today.

The papyri we can buy today in Cairo center gift shops contain the famous hierogliphs, the Egyptian alphabet, and images reproducing scenes from the life of the old civilization: ancient gods such Osiris, Iris, Anubis, Apophis or popular Pharaos such Keops, Tutankamon, Ramses can be found on these papyri. Scenes from the day-to-day life in Egypt or from the afterlife can also be seen on the precious artefacts.

Where can we find these things in Cairo? Cairo is composed of two cities, an old one and a modern one. In the modern (central) Cairo we can find gift shops that sell papyri for prices that range from $10.00 to $19.99 almost everywhere, in all hotels, antique shops.

If we don’t want to go to Egypt, we can buy a papyrus on Internet. There are various sites that sell papyri online. And they make a pretty good living out of it.

Today we are going to visit a more “exotic” place than the usual cities of the United States of America. And we’ll discuss about Cairo, which as you may already know is the capital of Egypt. But this is not all, Cairo is also the largest city in Africa and one of the most densely populated cities of the whole world. It has an area of 453 km² (174 square miles) and a big population of 6,758,581 residents. And the density is 31,582/ km² (81,797 / sq mi). It is also known as the “City of a thousand minarets”, thanks to its preponderance of Islamic architecture. This place has a very rich history and was established somewhere around the 10^th century. And it is also associated with the Ancient Egypt and this is because it is located close to the Great Sphinx and the pyramids.

Here in Cairo you can also find the oldest and largest film and music industries in the Arabic world and also the second oldest institution of higher learning in the whole world, which is the Al-Azhar  University. Since it is such a large city, and also a part of one of the most largest urban areas of the world, it suffers from high levels of pollution and traffic. Its metropolitan area is also among the 15 busies of the world, with more than 700 million passenger rides each year. There are so many more others things to be said about Cairo, that we need at least 10 articles to say it all .

So we’ll say just a few small conclusions about it…it is a very big, highly populated and crowded cities, but which is also the home of many beautiful tourist attractions (museums, towers, mosques, etc). And since there are so many visitors coming here, there are definitely a lot of gift shops too. But let’s say that you are not among those happy people that get the chance of visiting Cairo in their life time. But in this case there is a solution for you too, in case you would really like to buy a gift that is related to this  city. And this solution would be to visit one of the many Cairo, Egypt online gift shops. There are many of them on the internet, and one of them is this: http://www.egyptgiftshop.com/ . You can find here objects not only related to the capital of Egypt, but related with all of the other famous attractions from this country, especially the pyramids and the Sphinx.

There are quite a lot of them here on the site, and of course they are all related to this country and its unique attractions. The products are sorted on categories, and some of them would be: Egyptian papyrus paintings, hand made copper plates, Egyptian statues, Ancient Egyptian jewelry, Egyptian silver arts, Egyptian mother of pearl jewelry boxes, Egyptian cotton t-shirts, Egyptian perfume bottles, Islamic crafts, Egyptian leather wallets, purses and collectibles, Chocolate, Flowers, Egyptian Christmas gifts, Unique gift idea, Egypt DVD shop, Books on Egypt,

If there are so many categories of products, you can just imagine how many cool gifts you will find here on this site. But don’t just imagine what gifts can be found here, but make a visit to this site, and browse through all of the items. And if you ever get the chance of visiting the real city of Cairo, don’t forget to share all your experiences with us. Have a nice holiday!

Egypt is one of the most known countries in the world, thanks to its ancient civilization and one of the world’s most famous monuments (Giza pyramid complex, Great Sphinx). Situated in Africa and the Middle East, Egypt has in south a city named Luxor which contains numerous artifacts (Karnak, Valley of the Kings) and is widely regarded as an important political and cultural nation.

As we already mention, Egypt is one of the most popular countries in the world and this is happening in part thanks to the millions of tourists who are visiting Egypt every year. If you are one of this tourists, don’t leave Egypt without a souvenir or some remembrance item. And for that you have at your service the Egyptian Gift Shop, the place for merchandise that you can only buy from Egypt.

At Egyptian Gift Shop you can buy all sorts of Egyptian handmade merchandise, perfect imitations of what was made in ancient Egypt thousands of years ago, like: Egyptian papyrus paintings, Egyptian statues (porcelain ware) leather crafts and brass gifts, hieroglyphic silver cartouches and other Egyptian silver jewelry, Egyptian cotton t-shirts, Egyptian cotton apparel, ethnic Assuit wedding shawls, Nagada handwoven shawls, Christmas tree ornaments, candle holders, aroma oil burners and oriental ethnic oil lamps, authentic leather wallets and much more special gifts from the Pharaohs kingdom as sexy Egyptian belly dance wear.

We are trying to show you how great difference will make for your dear persons an Egyptian gift, with a large collection of Egyptian souvenirs (Pharaonic and Islamic) they will feel like they live in ancient Egypt.

Of course, like every respectable gift shop, the Egyptian Gift Shop has an online interface for the store in Alexandria. So, if you don’t want to carry souvenirs for thousands of miles to offer them to your friends or you just want to travel to Egypt and enjoy your trip not worrying how much Egyptian gifts you can take home, just enjoy your visit to Egypt and when it comes about the Egypt keepsakes souvenirs, get online and visit Egyptian Gift Shop online. There you’ll find a page for unique gift ideas, if you want to offer a personalized gift to your loved ones.

What kind of gifts you can find at Egyptian Gift Shop? Here you have some examples of Egyptian hand made gifts and Egyptian souvenirs: papyrus paintings with symbols of the ancient Egyptian history, Egyptian mouth-blown glass perfume bottles, mother of pearl boxes (inlaid treasure chests and jewelry keepsakes), decorating brass plates with famous Egyptian kings and the beautiful Queens scenes, Egyptian gold personalized cartouche, sterling silver personalized cartouche, Egyptian mosaic marquetry jewelry boxes. At Egyptian Gift Shop you can decorate your home and garden how you ever wanted with handcrafted wrought iron furniture. We have to mention here that all decoration items are shaped by heating and hammering solid iron and most important, each piece is unique.



We hope that we succeeded to give you the information that you need, and you’ll visit the Egyptian Gift Shop knowing that there you can satisfy your gift needs.