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georgivs > Morning sunlight filtered through the window trellis of the 14th century Mosque of An-Nasir Mohammed, at the Citadel, Cairo.
georgivs > Minbar and mihrab of the Mosque of An-Nasir Mohammed, at the Citadel, Cairo.
georgivs > Detail of the arch above the main gateway to Old Cairo, the tiny Christian enclave adjacent to Fustat and dating to Roman times around which the largely Muslim metropolis has grown over the past 1400 or so years.
georgivs > The pyramids at Giza. Cairo is the grey agglomeration immediately to the right.
georgivs > The Red Pyramid at Dashur. Built by the Pharaoh Snofru, father of Khufu, it is the world's first true smooth-sided pyramid. It's also the third largest pyramid in Egypt.
georgivs > The Pyramid of Menkaure, with three Queen's Pyramids, Giza.
georgivs > The Sphinx, with the Great Pyramid in the background.
georgivs > View of the forecourt of the Step Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara, with a section of the Uraeus-topped perimeter wall at left. The rubble mound immediately to the right of the Step Pyramid is the Pyramid of Userkaf. The third mound, at the right of the picture is the Pyramid of Teti.
georgivs > The view of the Sphinx that the travel brochures don't show you; the ageless and inscrutable Sphinx stares across a concrete carpark at a group of suburban Cairo apartment buildings and twenty million tourists from every country on the planet.
View of the forecourt of the Step Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara, with a section of the Uraeus-topped perimeter wall at left. The rubble mound immediately to the right of the Step Pyramid is the Pyramid of Userkaf. The third mound, at the right of the picture is the Pyramid of Teti.
> View of the forecourt of the Step Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara, with a section of the Uraeus-topped perimeter wall at left. The rubble mound immediately to the right of the Step Pyramid is the Pyramid of Userkaf. The third mound, at the right of the picture is the Pyramid of Teti.
View of the forecourt of the Step Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara, with a section of the Uraeus-topped perimeter wall at left. The rubble mound immediately to the right of the Step Pyramid is the Pyramid of Userkaf. The third mound, at the right of the picture is the Pyramid of Teti.
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