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Egypt

December 2003 - January 2004
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The Sphinx, with the Great Pyramid in the background.
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The Sphinx, with the Great Pyramid in the background.

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  • Dawn at the Temple of Ramses II at Abu Simbel.
  • Busseri Mosque, Alexandria.
  • Morning view over the rooftops of Alexandria, with a multiplicity of satellite dishes.
  • Pompey's Pillar with sphinx of Ptolemy XII (father of Cleopatra VII), the acropolis, Alexandria.
  • The Bibliotecha Alexandrina - the world's largest library. The wall of the building features inscriptions in all known alphabets and scripts.
  • Crimson sunset over Fort Qaitbey and the Eastern Harbour, Alexandria.
  • Arch detail, Mosque of Ibn Tulun, Cairo.
  • Untitled photo
  • Morning view of the Mosque of Mohammed Ali, the Citadel, Cairo.
  • Minbar and mihrab of the Mosque of An-Nasir Mohammed, at the Citadel, Cairo.
  • Morning sunlight filtered through the window trellis of the 14th century Mosque of An-Nasir Mohammed, at the Citadel, Cairo.
  • 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.
  • The pyramids at Giza. Cairo is the grey agglomeration immediately to the right.
  • 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. Note the tiny black dot part way up on the right hand side; that's a person.
  • The Pyramid of Menkaure, with three Queen's Pyramids, Giza.
  • The Sphinx, with the Great Pyramid in the background.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • The ruined Pyramid of Unas at Saqqara.
  • The pyramids at Abu Sir, viewed from Saqqara. Cairo is the dark sliver on the extreme right, and the brown haze extending across the horizon is the pollution band hanging above the city.
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