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EPIC THRILLS IN EGYPT
THE LEGENDS, ARCHITECTURE AND SYMBOLISM OF AN ICONIC TRAVEL DESTINATION, UNPACKED
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ROM THE HEIGHTS OF THESE PYRAMIDS, FORTY
centuries look down on us.” I’m not usually moved by the words of dead French autocrats, but as I look up awestruck at the Great Pyramid of Giza, Napoleon’s 1798 speech to his troops comes, irresistibly, to mind. Camel drivers, selfie-snapping tourists, and even the vast Sahara Desert outside Egypt’s capital, Cairo, all seem to fade away. What I’m experiencing hits me like the 5.75-million-ton bulk of Cheops’ tomb.
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