Delta Barrage Airmail Stamp Overprinted for Palestine - 1 millieme

This high-value definitive issue features the elegant profile of Queen Nefertiti, one of ancient Egypt's most famous and powerful queens, who ruled alongside Pharaoh Akhenaten during the wealthy 18th Dynasty (Amarna Period, c. 14th century BC).Constructed during the 19th century and initiated under Muhammad Ali Pasha, these monumental irrigation dams were a landmark engineering feat designed to control the flow of the Nile River as it divides into the Rosetta and Damietta branches, transforming agriculture across Lower Egypt.