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Remnants of the Red Hot Chili Pepper concert that took place on on Friday.
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This boat is only 4,500 years old 😂 It was a ceremonial boat to shuttle the pharaoh in the afterlife
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Our friend Mohammed’s great uncle in his essential oil shop!
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Lunch with a view
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A truck full of garlic!
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Raafat explaining ancient pottery techniques with a shard he found at the Bent Pyramid (Red Pyramid in the distance)
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Ancient pottery
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Inside a royal tomb at Saqqara
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Inside a royal tomb at Saqqara
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Inside a royal tomb at Saqqara
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Inside a royal tomb at Saqqara
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Temple at the Step Pyramid at Saqqara
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An route to the Egyptian Museum today
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I swear I brought this with me into the Egyptian Museum!! #GreatMinds
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door at the Mosque of Sultan Assan
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The Scribe
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Detail of Tutankhamun’s throne
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Lanterns at the Mosque
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The only figure ever found of the Pharoah Khufu, the owner of the Great Pyramid
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Queen Hatshepsut
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Khafre & vulture
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Anubis
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Lights at the mosque
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Waking up on the Nile in Luxor
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Abydos
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Market day on the way to Abydos
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Abydos
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Look at the detailed musculature in Horus’s forearm
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Those kneecaps are perfection!
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Raafat demonstrates how a white cloth (or in this case, a hat!) could serve as a reflector to illuminate a whole wall when placed in a beam of sunlight
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A tea break after Abydos. Onward to Dendara!
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One of Hathor’s realms is magic, so BJ brought out his infamous magic trick 🐰🎩
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The Dendera light 💡(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendera_light)
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The Dendera light 💡(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendera_light)
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The crypt at Dendera
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Luxor temple
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Luxor temple
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Hard won ice cream 😂 🍦
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Queen Hatshepsut’s temple
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Colossi at Memnon
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Panorama at Valley of the Kings
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Luxor temple (the matching obelisk is in the Place de la Concorde in Paris)
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Luxor
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Ramesses VI tomb
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Luxor
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Luxor
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Luxor
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Luxor
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Luxor
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Luxor
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Luxor
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😍
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Luxor
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Karnak
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Karnak
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The Avenue of Sphinxes that will one day connect Luxor and Karnak temples
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Remnants of a Christian fresco over Egyptian carvings at Luxor
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On the Nile
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Karnak
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Karnak
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Karnak
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Karnak
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Luxor
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Luxor
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Luxor
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Karnak
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Karnak
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Karnak
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Karnak
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Horus @ Edfu temple
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The Nile
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Our discussions get so hardcore they require visual aids 😂
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Our towel crocodile! 🐊🐊🐊
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These gentlemen tie up to cruise ships and try to sell their wares, tossing the goods up 3 levels to the sun deck
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Getting ready to launch a dress up to the sun deck
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Tossing down money, inside a bag with other goods
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Sometime the guys toss their wares onto the shade canopy 😂
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Edfu temple
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The world’s first WiFi symbol?! 😉
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The only female Horus figure
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Horus
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Horus
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Edfu temple
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Edfu
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Isis temple at Philae
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Isis temple at Philae
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Carvings of medical tools at Kom Ombo
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Abu Simbel temple (which was painstakingly moved piece by piece so it would it be covered by water when the Aswan High Dam was built!)
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Inside Abu Simbel
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Photo op!
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Inside the Queen’s temple
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Hitchin’ a ride!
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A snap from Sherise of Abu Simbel on our approach!
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Boat museum next to the Great Pyramid
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😍
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The “Bent Pyramid” in the distance
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Ceiling at Dendera
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Raafat showing us Lady Horus
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The Unfinished Obelisk
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