Hatshepsut temple

Luxor - Valley of the Kings

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September 14th 2019
Today was the hottest day yet, 44.4 degrees Celsius (112 F, sounds worst in Ferenheit) We docked in Luxor this morning. Luxor in ancient times was known as the “City of the One Hundred Gates”. It was the capital of Egypt twice in the middle kingdom, once in 2050 B.C. and again in the New Kingdom in 1550 B.C. Luxor has one third of the monuments in the world but yet Egyptologists still discove ... read more

Africa » Egypt

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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