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He put his feet where there were marks depicting big feet on a stone base with Ramesses’s cartouche written on it. We saw reliefs depicting the ram-headed Khnum himself.
I only had a custodian who spoke no English to help guide me by gestures. His best was to impersonate Ramesses II, as he sat...
Presently, however, the sight of a goat grazing in the pile of garbage in the alley distracted him. Forgetting me he ran happily after the goat.
as he sat on the column bases remaining from a restoration of the Khnum Temple undertaken by that XIX Dynasty Pharaoh.
I visited a house which had turned its upper terrace into a small museum of local flora and fauna called Animalia.
Down in the alley, a group of women were sitting on the steps of a house, chopping greens in preparation for the family lunch.
I asked “for what?’ He put his hand to ears and said “baa!” Three Women were washing clothes outside a house.
At the entrance to another shop, a man called Ahmad Saber had his name, both in Arabic and Hieroglyphic, framed in a cartouche, the way the pharaohs did to protect their names.
On the television screen, a man was reciting verses from the Qur’an. The owner of a “cafeteria” invited me in to buy a meal.
The Romans built a new Nilometer of their own only a few steps away. This served the same purpose for centuries to come.
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