Claire - like a child on a giant's chair

Some stats for you, built in 2589-2566 BC with over 2.3 million blocks of stone, with an average weight of 2.5 tons per stone - a total weight of 6 million tons & height of 140m.

Egypt, land of the Pharoahs

December 30th 2007
This blog should more accurately be called ‘a trial in sleep deprivation’ More on that soon… Well you may or may not know that Egypt was kind of thrust upon us - or at least chosen without our usual thorough planning. At about the same time as we reached the conclusion that we wanted to go somewhere hot for Christmas - the Arctic Circle in Norway and the freezing wet & windy Edinburgh for H ... read more

Africa » Egypt » Upper Egypt » Aswan

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

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