Statue of Alexandria-Born Female Scientist Hypatia Set Up at New Administrative Capital | Arts & Culture - CairoScene

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Statue of Alexandria-Born Female Scientist Hypatia Set Up at New Administrative Capital

Legends like composer Mohamed Abdel Wahab, founder of National Bank of Egypt Talaat Harb and the ‘Prince of Poets’ Ahmed Shawky are just a few of the influential names to have been commemorated in statue form. If there’s something we've been missing, though, it’s a lack of statues dedicated to powerful Egyptian women. But the tides might be turning - a new statue of famed Alexandria-born scientist and philosopher Hypatia is being placed in the New Administrative Capital.
 
Hypatia (c. 350-370) was a Hellenistic Neo-Platonist philosopher, mathematician and astronomer who lived in Alexandria, back when it was part of the Eastern Roman Empire. She was the first-ever female mathematician in the world - or at least, the first with such a well-documented life. 
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