Zoser's Pyramid

The Amazing Race-ish

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May 14th 2007
Today we checked out of our amazing, lovely, Mena House Hotel in Cairo for a day of sight-seeing around Caro and then journeying on by plane to Aswan. We all boarded the bus and headed to Saqqara first. The main point here was to visit Zoser's Pyramid which was apparently the oldest known pyramid that has been found. It was apparently once the center of a huge complex with temples and other st ... read more

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The regularity and richness of the annual Nile River flood, coupled with semi-isolation provided by deserts to the east and west, allowed for the development of one of the world's great civilizations. A unified kingdom arose circa 3200 B.C. and a ser... ... read more