Day: February 4, 2003

Mastaba of Merou

February 4, 2003.Reading time 2 minutes.

The entrance to this mastaba is unassuming, but inside, the reliefs and paintings are well-preserved.

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Tomb of Inefret

February 4, 2003.Reading time less than 1 minute.

One of the smaller tombs in the complex of Saqqara, from the fifth dynasty

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Colossus of Ramesses II

February 4, 2003.Reading time 4 minutes.

If you aren’t familiar with Ramesses II before you go to Egypt, you will be heartily sick of him afterwards! No other pharaoh embarked on such a monumental building plan throughout Egypt

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Memphis Acropolis

February 4, 2003.Reading time 2 minutes.

The rest of the site of the “lost” city of Memphis is a small garden with some pieces of statuary, and remains of an embalming house attached to the long-gone Temple of Ptah.

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Alabaster Sphinx

February 4, 2003.Reading time 1 minute.

Everyone has seen the face of the giant Great Sphinx at Giza, but most people don’t see the hundreds of sphinxes that remain in the temples and ruins in Egypt. The Great Sphinx is certainly not alone

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