A "false door" inside a tomb near the Khufu pyramid. These doors where considered magic by the ancient Egyptians, in other words the spirit of the one burried behind could pass, while the living can't...
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Uhm...Tom Cruise and Will Smith ("I, Robot")... Aparantly they have handpainted movie billboards in Cairo.
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Egyptian Museum - Monday September 13, 2004
Garden in front of the museum.
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(Entrance.) Inside: a.o. Akhenaten (Achnaton) statues, animal mummies, the Royal Mummy Room, Book of the Dead scrolls and the Tutankhamun galleries (with the famous golden deathmask). Unfortunuately cameras weren't allowed inside :(
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Talaat Harb street - Monday September 13, 2004
Buzy night at the Talaat Harb street.
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Cairo - Tuesday September 14, 2004
Parking lot near Abdeen Palace. One of the few quiet places in Cairo.
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Abdeen Palace - Tuesday September 14, 2004
Former royal residence, occasionally used by president Mubarak for official business.
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Islamic Cairo - Tuesday September 14, 2004
Islamic Cairo has some of the messiest streets Cairo has to offer... (Uhm, is that woman following me? I could have sworn I've seen her before...)
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This photo doesn't do the Cairo traffic chaos justice.
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Ar Rifai Mosque - Tuesday September 14, 2004
Mosque of Ar-Rifai, where members of the royal family and the last shah of Iran are burried.
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Mosque of Ar-Rifia (l) and Mosque-Madrassa of Sultan Hassan (r).
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