Giza Pyramids - me

Triangley things

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March 20th 2008
Coolies so after a pretty long flight from London, arrived in Cairo Sunday night to a city that is as big and as busy as I imagined. First stop was the Egyptian Museum. The pieces on antiquity are laid out in some chronological order, but things are generally pretty shambolic inside and I kept going in circles, retracing my steps to make sure nothing was missed. I am still amazed that these a ... read more

Africa » Egypt » Lower Egypt » Cairo

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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