Egyptians celebrated ‘Sham El-Nessim’, on Monday, one of the world’s oldest folk festivals which traditionally falls close to the Coptic Orthodox Easter celebrations. Sham El-Nessim, which literally translates as “smelling the breeze”, is a Pharaonic celebration of the spring season in Egypt. The celebration, which takes place one day after Easter Sunday each year, dates back to Ancient Egyptian times, to at least 2700 BCE during the era of the ...