The Lover Isadora who preceded Juliet by more than a thousand years

Sincere love never dies, even if it ends with a tragic end.

 In ancient Egyptian history there are many stories that make you a captive to it, among these stories one that stole hearts

The events of this story took place in Pharaonic Egypt during Greek rule in the central Upper Egypt region in Minya 130 BC.

Isadora is a beautiful Egyptian girl, 18 years old, who lived in Egypt in the second century B.C., in the era of Emperor Hadrian, and she is the daughter of a Greek family who lived in Egypt in the city of Antinopolis, and her father was the ruler of the region known today as Minya Governorate, and his great palace was located in the city of Antinopolis Where it overlooks the Nile.

The beautiful girl fell in love with the Egyptian officer (Habi) who lived on the western side of the Nile in the city of Khomno (now Al-Ashmonin), he was one of the guard forces in the city, and he was a normal person from the Egyptian common people and he was not from the top of the people, there is no Any way to compare them in terms of level. Despite this, her love prompted her to meet her lover.

Isadora went out from her city across the river to attend one of the celebrations, and there she met the officer (Habi), and she became attached to him and was fascinated by her, and the two kept meeting every day and every night, so she would go to him by the lake, and he used to come to her near her father’s palace.

After three years of sincere love, her father knew about this, and decided to prevent him, because in his

 custom his daughter of Greek roots should not be associated with an Egyptian young man, and he ordered the guards to follow her, and to prevent that young man from meeting her. Isadora was sad and decided to commit suicide, and that life without her lover is meaningless. But she decided to see him for the last time, and indeed she was able to mislead her guards, and she went to the same place at the lake and did not tell her lover what she had decided to do, which was suicide and said goodbye to him and went, even if she reached the middle of the river she threw herself into the arms of the Nile.

Her father deeply regretted what he had done to his daughter. He built a beautiful tomb for her in the form of a house, and wrote on the walls of the tomb two poems in the Lament of Isadora in Greek

As for her lover Habi, he remained faithful to his love for her and decided not to marry, and he used to go to her grave daily to sit with her for hours so that her soul would not remain alone in her grave, and he wrote on her grave his words: “O beautiful little, innocent kind, and a fresh flower that withered in 

the spring of life, oh My pure angel, who passed away without farewell, "these were his last words.

The story of the lover, Isadora, hijacked the heart of “the Dean of Arab Literature” Taha Hussein, so the Dean of Arabic Literature, Taha, went to her and built a resting place next to the Isadora tomb.

And every evening he went to the tomb of Isadora and lit a lamp as her lover did, and he built his tomb next to her.