The Wandering Scot
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Alexandria
Alexandria Harbor
Fort Quaitbey
Fort Quaitbey
Fort Quaitbey
Fort Quaitbey
Bibliotheca Alexandira
New Library of Alexandria
National Museum
Serapis
Lord of Dandera (Roman era)
Head of Akhenaten
Statue of a Scribe (Old Kingdom)
Pomepy's Column
30 meter granite column, actually dedicated to Diocletian.
Ruins of Serapeum, etc.
Restored Tunnel
Replica of Apis Bull
Cairo
Giza: Pyramids & Sphinx
Great Pyramid Entrance
Down into the Great Pyramid
Great Pyramid Tomb Chamber
Egyptian Museum
Egyptian Museum
Menkaure, Hathor, Goddess (~2480 BC)
Ramses II, remodeled as Merenptah
King Chephren (aka Khafra)(~2500 BC)
Seated Scribe (~2400 BC)
Copper statue of Pepi I (~2300 BC)
Hatshepsut (~1450 BC)
Hatshepsut (~1450 BC)
Akhenaten (~1340 BC)
Akhenaten (~1340 BC)
Akhenaten's Coffin Lid (~1334)
Akhenaten's Coffin Lid (~1334)
Tanis Royal Funeral Mask (~1000 BC)
Tanis Funeral mask
One of the outer shrines of Tutankhamun's Sarcophagus
Throne of Tutankhamun (~1330 BC)
Tutankhamun Chest with Pharaoh slaughtering his enemies
Tutankhamun Bed
Tutankhamun Bed
Counting Cattle (~1800 BC)
Carpenter's Shop (~1800 BC)
Egyptian Spearmen (~2000 BC)
Numbian Archers (~2000 BC)
Dashur, Memphis and Sakkara
Red Pyramid
Red Pyramid Entrance
Red Pyramid
Red Pyramid: Inner Chamber
Red Pyramid: Tomb Chamber
Bent Pyramid
Bent Pyramid: Smooth limestone casing
Memphis: Giant Ramses II
Giant Ramses II
Sphinx of Memphis ~1200 BC
Step Pyramid
Scotsman at Step Pyramid
Temple ruin at Step Pyramid
Cairo to Luxor
Cairo Ramses Station
Cairo Ramses Station
128 miles S of Cairo
142 miles NW of Abydos
123 miles NW of Abydos
106 miles NW of Abydos
Luxor
Nile at Luxor
Winter Palace Hotel
Karnak
The Nile at Karnak
Luxor Temple
Luxor: East Bank
Colossus of Memnon (~1350 BC)
Entrance to Valley of the Kings
Tomb of Ramses VI
Tomb of Ramses VI: Ceiling
Tomb of Ramses VI
Route to Thuthmosis III's Tomb
Tausert & Setnakht Tomb
Tausert & Setnakht Tomb
Hatshepsut Funerary Temple
Hatshepsut Funerary Temple
Hatshepsut Funerary Temple
Hatshepsut Funerary Temple
Hatshepsut Funerary Temple
Hatshepsut Funerary Temple
Funerary Temple of Ramses III
Funerary Temple of Ramses III
Funerary Temple of Ramses III
Funerary Temple of Ramses III
Funerary Temple of Ramses III
Luxor Museum
Head of Goddess Hathor (~1340 BC0
Thutmosis III (~1340 BC)
Tutankhamun hunting/training chariot
Akhenaton (~1360)
Aswan
Nile at Aswan
The "Unfinished Obelisk"
Elephantine Island: Satet Temple
Nubian Museum
High Priest Horemakhet, 25th Dynasty
Egyptian style, but "Kushite" features.
Ramses II
Ram Mummy, for Khunom
Aswan Dam
View North from Aswan Dam
Lake Nasser
Soviet-Egyptian Engineering Monument
Lotus leaves, holding up a cog wheel.
Soviet and Egptian Emblems
Aswan Dam from Lake Nasser
Relocated Philae Island
Temple of Isis
Trajan's Kiosk
Steel markers show original temple site
Abu Simbel
The specially created hill.
Scotsman at Abu Simbel
Temple of Hathor
Temple of Hathor
Pharaoh bowshots his enemies.
Pharaoh smites an enemy
It is good to be Pharaoh
Pharoaoh's enemies. It is bad to displease Pharaoh!
Moving Pharaoh (1)
Moving Pharaoh (2)
Sculpture commemorating the transfer.
A natural "pyramid" across Lake nasser
Two Nile ferries
Squeezing on to the ferry.
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