Giza

They're huge and people are still discussing how they were built. How did they get those huge blocks of sandstone to the site and up to the top of the pyramids?

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THE PYRAMIDS AT GIZA

April 23rd 2009
Our trip is full, all couples and all Australian. I’ve been keeping a list of Aussie words and phrases that capture the “strangeness” of their relative isolation from the rest of the English-speaking world. The group makeup also shows Australia’s uniqueness: two Chinese couples, one half-German couple, and one half-Malaysian couple. We visited the really famous pyramids that are loca ... read more

Africa » Egypt » Lower Egypt » Giza

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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