the Hanging Church in Coptic Cairo

Holy Cow I Went to Egypt: Part 2

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June 3rd 2008
On Monday Jordan and I had planned to go to the Egyptian Antiquities Museum and so got up early and worked our way down Tallat Harb to one of the main squares in Cairo: Midan Tahrir. From the square you can see the American University in Cairo, where I almost studied abroad, along with both fancy Hilton hotels, a Sheraton Hotel, an Inter-Continental Hotel, Cairo's main public administrative build ... 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