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Horus at the Hot Chicken Soup Temple  
   

Horus at the Hot Chicken Soup Temple

Isn't it amazing that the colours can still be so vibrant after 3000 or so years! Also when they found Hatshepsut's mummy, to prove that it was in fact her they tested her DNA against her grandmothers (who they knew). Then to double prove she was who they thought she was they took a molar that was found somewhere in a royal box with her name on it and it fit perfectly into the empty hole in her gums.....bit gross but again amazing that the bodies are still so well preserved after .... 3000 years.
Handling the hassle, sailing the Nile and discovering an Ancient World

April 21st 2008
Well we sure got what we asked for when we woke up on our first day in Cairo....sun! Southern Morocco was nice and warm but Fes and Casa were around 15 when we were there so we really weren’t prepared for the 40 degree heat that awaited us in Egypt. We booked a 9 day tour of Egypt, deciding that of all the countries we were visiting on this trip, Egypt was the one that we’d most likely be tha ... read more
Africa » Egypt

Egyptian Flag 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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