Egypt 2003 - Pyramids
Having met up with the other members of our little group, for the "Sinai Desert Adventurer", we intrepid adventurers set off in the morning of April 5th to look at the evolution of the pyramid, beginning at Dashur, with some of the earliest examples of the genre, then on to Memphis and Saqqara before ending up at the famous pyramids of Giza and, of course, the Sphinx.
True pyramid, Dashur
Collapsed pyramid (in the distance), Dashur
"Bent" pyramid, Dashur
Sphinx, Memphis
....two vast and trunkless legs of stone.... or "Up yer kilt": Ramses II, Memphis
Explicit relief in a mastaba at Saqqara
Step pyramid of Zoser, Saqqara: the very first dressed stone structure in the world?
Sphinx and pyramids, Giza