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The Alabaster Sphinx at the open-air museum at Mit Rahina

November 10, 20225 min read2022

Dateline November 10, 2022, Saqqara, Memphis, and the Tomb of Teti

South of Giza to an older Egypt: Saqqara, with the oldest stone building complex on earth. The climb down into the tomb of Teti and its Pyramid Texts, Djoser's step pyramid and its great colonnade, then Memphis, first capital of a united Egypt, and the open-air museum at Mit Rahina with its Alabaster Sphinx and the fallen colossus of Ramses the Great.

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John and Janice on camels in front of the Giza pyramids

Egypt

November 9, 20227 min read2022

Dateline November 9, 2022, Cairo, the Pyramids of Giza

Into Cairo and across the Nile to Giza, in the shadow of the Great Pyramid, with a night at the historic Mena House. Our guide Sam at the Giza necropolis, the Great Pyramid of Khufu, a camel ride on the sand, the Great Sphinx, and Sam's own account, as a Coptic Christian, of the long story of the Christians of Egypt.

#Cairo #Giza #Great Pyramid

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