Physical Disabilities in Greco Roman Egypt and Measuring the Role of Archaeological Museums in The Innovation of Smart Technology to Serve the Physically Handicapped Tourists: Applying on Museums in Alexandria, Cairo

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Lecturer in Tourist Guidance department High Institute of Tourism & Hotels - King Marriott – Alexandria

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In ancient Egypt, physical disabilities or body deformities were considered as divine attributes granted to humans by the gods. In ancient Egypt there were many remedies for various conditions, including blindness. Medical and magical texts from the predynastic period contain different diseases for example, blindness.

The Egyptians and Greeks had differing world views of blindness. There is a considerable difference with the Greco Roman world concerning disabilities incurred during the course of one's life. Alexander the great created a new elite class of disabled men by placing them in prominent positions of authority. Ancient Greek and Roman It was believed that children who were disabled were unwanted by the gods and that their disabilities were forms of punishment for misbehavior and sin.

At nowadays,,there is a myriad of ways that museums can market themselves with disabilities people that are a word of mouth and the use of different technologies such as websites and social media. People with disabilities can now access museum collections and information through new digital technologies to promote their goods and services such as A tactile model is a model or copy of an artwork that could be touched to examine it to give people with visual impairments the opportunity to get acquainted with a specific object and electronic gloves contain sensitive figures that convey the real feeling of touching things to the person as well as Providing charging points for moving electric wheelchair as well as ramps for the movement of these wheelchair.

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