Tag Archives: Archaeology
Local Sounds
The calls to prayer tend to layer on each other, as most mosques have a separate muezzin who calls the observant 5 times a day. With the population increases, many smaller mosques exist within the same community. The muezzins go … Continue reading
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Day 5: Valley of the Queens & Valley of the Kings
First we visited the Valley of the Queens, on the Western bank of the Nile in Luxor, where the wives of pharaohs were buried along with many of their children and other nobles. We headed straight to our our guide’s … Continue reading
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Amphorae, Aish (Bread) & Aggravating Cultural Conundrums
Today, we went to the National Museum of Alexandria and Montaza Palace. The former offered a wide scope on the history of civilization in Alex and in Egypt generally, from the Pharaonic period all the way up to the modern … Continue reading →
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