[nukkad] Re: Egypt!!

[Ragini <>]

Ravi's description and pics make me even more desirous to go visit the place.
Thanks for sharing them
I had also gone through two excellent books showing how they had made
the mummies: 'Living Tomb' and 'Inside the Tomb of Tutankhamun'. and
they amazed me enough.
Well, let's see when I can make it.
Ragini

On 5/3/06, Ravi_Menon@oxy.com  wrote:
> Folks
> I cant access gmail from work so here is my experiences of Egypt.
> Was awesome!! We flew into Cairo and went to the Museum and Pyramids
> before flying out to Luxor. From Luxor we took a Cruise ship down to
> Aswan before flying back to Cairo. The people  the country and
> everything was just great.
> Very much like Bombay and India. All life though in Egypt is around the
> Nile.
> One of the things that struck me as awesome was the similarity to India.
> There is a picture of a village priest - just like the ones in India pot
> belly half a dhoti etc..
> Another picture reminded me o the similarity to Krishna, stealing milk
> from the cows udder!!!
> This though is the absolute clincher for me at least!
> The Indian name Mishra is supposedly Egyptian in origin. The term for
> Egyptian is "Misri" in Egypt as well as the Arab world. They presumably
> migrated is the theory.
> Here be some pics
>
> 28 Cairo view from Hotel
> 34 Floating market @ Edfu
> 1  detail on column
> 11 reconstructed temple
> 13  The god Horus with the face of a bird
> 16  My photography
> 25 an obelisk @ Luxor
> 26 The Colossus
> 30 I took this just for the detail of the garment supposedly leopard
> skin
> 31 MohamedAli road? Or Cairo!!! Yep Cairo from my hotel room on the
> other balcony!
> Ravi
> Let me know how you enjoyed these :-)
>
>
>  <<The Pyramid of Cheops (a diff view ).JPG>>  <<000028.JPG>>
> <<000034.JPG>>  <<000001.JPG>>  <<000011.JPG>>  <<000013.JPG>>
> <<000016.JPG>>  <<000025.JPG>>  <<000026.JPG>>  <<000030.JPG>>
> <<000031.JPG>>
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