georgivs > Parapet detail, Busseri Mosque, Anfushi, Alexandria
georgivs > Your intrepid photographer slouches exhaustedly on the wonderful Art Deco bi-coloured granite throne of Farouk, Egypt's last king, in a dusty, forgotten corner of the Manial Palace, Cairo.
georgivs > Funerary temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el Medina.
georgivs > 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.
georgivs > The Sphinx, with the Great Pyramid in the background.
georgivs > The Pyramid of Menkaure, with three Queen's Pyramids, Giza.
georgivs > The pyramids at Giza. Cairo is the grey agglomeration immediately to the right.
georgivs > 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.
georgivs > Minbar and mihrab of the Mosque of An-Nasir Mohammed, at the Citadel, Cairo.
Parapet detail, Busseri Mosque, Anfushi, Alexandria
georgivs > Parapet detail, Busseri Mosque, Anfushi, Alexandria
Parapet detail, Busseri Mosque, Anfushi, Alexandria
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