A Year Later, 2013 pt 5
Christmas Day I wasn’t sure what I was going to do today, so I set out walking towards Luxor town centre. Much to my surprise, after the jackal and the hawk of previous days, as I crossed the road by the entrance to Karnak I came across a black cat sitting in the undergrowth washing […]
A Year Later, 2013 pt 4
The last two days seem to have flown past. Christmas Eve saw me on the West Bank visiting what is known as the Theban Necropolis, a vast area covering 2 square miles (5 square kilometres). The Valley of the Kings is a name familiar to most of us from various documentaries, but not so well […]
A Year Later, 2013 pt 3
After yesterday’s failure to find Akhenaten’s temple, I returned to Karnak this morning armed with a pdf copy of a photograph taken during the excavations done in the 70s. I was determined to find the temple site, or at least the place where it once stood. Again, as it was early, the whole complex was […]
A Year Later, 2013 pt 2
Luxor temple is beautiful, there is no other way to describe it. Built primarily by Amenhotep III and finished by Rameses the Great, with a mid section by Tutankhamun and his successors, it was the spiritual home of Mut, the wife of Amun Ra. Because of the political situation in Egypt, tourists are quite thin […]
A Year Later, 2013 pt 1
I find myself a year later writing to you once more, not begging for financial aid this time, but to keep you informed as to where things are. I am not as far with the book as I had hoped to be, for a variety of reasons, mostly beyond my control, however, this doesn’t mean […]