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    Cairo, pyramids & sphinx 15-20 Jan 2011

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    ... had progressed from the days of the pyramids.  I overhear a tour guide saying it has been raining at Giza. We then head to Memphis apparently this was the first capital of the old kingdom of the pharaohs. Here there is a statute of Ramese II and the ...

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    The amazing giza pyramids and sphinx

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    ... a man swimming in the muck. We were disgusted and Daniel noticed this guy swam with his head way above the water. Memphis was the ancient city and capital of Lower Egypt. There are no locals living there now. We got to see a lot of statutes of well known ...

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    Cairo

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    ... Kingdom. During this period the pyramids and associated monuments were constructed near the modern day capital of Cairo (at the time known as Memphis). A different dynasty of pharaohs made up the Middle Kingdom for around the next 300 years until Egypt ...

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    Ancient Egypt History Lesson-Part 1

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    ... while watching the Egyptian vs. South Africa football game. A clean defeat by the SA team put Egypt out of the African championships all together. A night in Cairo in my diary is not complete without a longer than desired stop at Mini Mall. Nasser ...

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    Cairo, the City of Superlatives

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    ... in the Egyptian movies and soap operas that graced television sets all over the Middle East. From Heliopolis, I left Cairo for Greece, leaving Egypt behind, with its superlatives of history and problems and its contrasts of desert and river, life and ...

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    King Tut's Gold

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    ... nbsp; Before making our way to the mummy room we stopped into the jewelry room, where we found...an Egyptologist studying at Memphis, Tennessee.  She told us some interesting things, like one of the mummies in the mummy room had his head bashed ...

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    Cairo

    ... hostel is clean and nice too. Tommorow we are going to visit the Pyramids at Giza, and then down to Memphis and Saqqara which are just south of Cairo, on Saturday we are going to visit the Egyptian musuem, and the Khan El Khali which is a huge bazaar ...

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    Cairo Days 2 -3

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    Day 1: Tour of the Pyramids at Giza, Sphinx, Memphis and Saqqara!  AWESOME! Day 2: Cruised around the massive Khan El Khalili Bazaar, Mohamed Ali Mosque, and Salah El Din Citadel, and Pyramids Sound and Light ...

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    Cairo, A City of Antiquity

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    ... where we saw the unearthed Solar Barque, an ancient boat that is believed to have carried the pharaoh's mummy across the Nile to Memphis millennia ago.  The boat was then buried at the foot of the pyramid to provide transport for the king in the ...

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    Mumble Jumble---November 27, 2008

    ... and jaw dropping architecture Dahshur pyrimid---the very first true pyimid---AWESOME Also visited the old capita of ancient Egypt---Memphis---saw the huge remains of Ramses 2 statue. Sorry for the brief update without much explanation...do better ...