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Egypt

December 2003 - January 2004
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Archways, niches, roundels and columns; a corner of the Mosque of Ibn Tulun, Cairo.
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Archways, niches, roundels and columns; a corner of the Mosque of Ibn Tulun, Cairo.

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  • Small pyramid tomb at Deir el Medina. This ancient town was the home to the artisans and builders who constructed the New Kingdom pharaoh's tombs in the nearby Valley of the Kings. In their spare time they built their own elaborate tombs, of which this is one example; the burial chamber is buried deep underground, with access via a tunnel below the pyramid.
  • Today it's a fairly nondescript intersection, but 2000 years ago this was the dead centre of the second-biggest city on earth. The street with the red-coated pedestrian walking down it was called the Way of the Soma, and the mausoleum of Alexander the Great is reputed to have been located on it, within 100 metres to the left of where I was standing when I took this picture; some people think it's still there, awaiting rediscovery. The street the cyclist is riding along was called the Canopic Way (because it led to the nearby city of Canopus); it featured a collonade along its length.
  • Minarets of the Mosque of Abu Al Abbas Al Mursi, Anfushi, Alexandria.
  • Window detail, Busseri Mosque, Anfushi, Alexandria.
  • Parapet detail, Busseri Mosque, Anfushi, Alexandria
  • Archways, niches, roundels and columns; a corner of the Mosque of Ibn Tulun, Cairo.
  • Corner detail of the collonaded courtyard and parapet of the 14th century Mosque of An-Nasir Mohammed, at the Citadel, Cairo.
  • Shadowed passageway somewhere in the interior of the mediaeval Mosque-Madrassa of Sultan Hassan, Cairo.
  • Looking into the central courtyard of the Mosque-Madrassa of Sultan Hassan, Cairo.
  • The faded neon glory of the Metro (phonetically approximated in Arabic on the sign as "m-t-r-oo") Cinema, downtown Cairo.
  • Your intrepid photographer slouches exhaustedly on the wonderful Art Deco bi-coloured granite throne of Farouk, Egypt's last king, in a dusty, forgotten corner of the Manial Palace, Cairo.
  • Your intrepid photographer.
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