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I've been back from my Mexico trip for almost two weeks now, and finally I've been able to sort through almost 2,000 photos and even work on a few of them! I'll post a few over the next little while.
This shot is the Teotihuacan Pyramids at dawn. This is a huge archaeological site not far from Mexico City. Check out the Wikipedia Page if you're interested. It's a truly amazing place.
Khafra's Pyramid in the foreground, the Great Pyramid behind it. The Great Pyramid is larger, but Khafra's often appears larger because of positioning. Khafra was Khufu's son.
We went to the central burial chambers of both of these pyramids.
Pyramide du Louvre, sous le président Mitterrand, architecte Ieoh Ming Pei, commandée en 1983, inaugurée le 4 mars 1988.
Paris, Le Louvre, de Phlippe Auguste à François Mitterrand, du château-fort à la pyramide, en passant par la Cour Carrée, la Cour Napoléon, et la statue équestre de Louis XIV.
balades des 4 et 5 juin 2009
© gaelle kermen 2009
The Pyramid of Khafre.
The people on the picture helps to give a sense of scale to show how huge the Pyramid is.
The Louvre Pyramid (Pyramide du Louvre), designed by I.M. Pei, is a large glass and metal pyramid, surrounded by three smaller pyramids, in the main courtyard (Cour Napoléon) of the Louvre Palace (Palais du Louvre) in Paris. The large pyramid serves as the main entrance to the Louvre Museum.
Sunway Pyramid, Bandar Sunway, Subang Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia
Ancient Egyptian design at Sunway Pyramid. Sunway Pyramid is Malaysia's first themed shopping and entertainment mall and was established in 1997.
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The 6th Dynasty pyramids of Neferirkare, Niuserre and Sahure at Abusir as seen from Saqqara (from the Tomb of Ti). The site of Abusir isn't currently open to visitors but its pyramids are easily visible from Saqqara further south. Along with the pyramids of Dahshur (visible to the south of Saqqara) and the Giza pyramids (visible to the north of Abusir on a clear day) the proximity of all these ancient sites reminds us that their modern designation merely relfects the nearest present-day settlements to each site and they should be considered as one vast site stretching several miles from Dahshur to Giza, constituting the ancient necropolis of Memphis.
Saqqara, the necropolis of Memphis, is one of the most fascinating sites in Egypt, as well as one of its earliest. The major monument here is Djoser's step pyramid, the earliest stone-built architectural monument which dominates the site.
Other pharaohs built pyramids here though most have not survived in such good conditions and some were never even finished. Two of the pyramids (those of Unas and Teti) contain chambers decorated with hieroglyph texts (the so called 'Pyramid Texts') that are amongst the earliest manifestations of ancient Egyptian writing.
The most significant survival from an artistic point of view however are the many early mastaba tombs (built from mud-brick and adorned with fine limestone reliefs within). Most visitors will not have time to do them justice and may have to just choose a couple to focus on if making a first visit. The art is of a very high quality and quite remote stylistically from the more esoteric scenes within the much later tombs of Thebes.
Saqqara can be a bewildering site to explore at first, but a little prior research will reveal the locations and best places to visit.
Dec 1992
I flew on the first KC-135 to have rollers installed for moving cargo. We flew from Altus AFB, OK to Cairo West, Egypt. Upon landing the plane broke so badly, the crew had a week to go anywhere we wanted. It was awesome!
This pyramid still has some of the original outer rock toward the top.
Pyramids of Giza, also spelled Gizeh,
Three 4th-dynasty (c. 2575–c. 2465 bc) pyramids erected on a rocky plateau on the west bank of the Nile River near Al-Jīzah (Giza) in northern Egypt. In ancient times they were included among the Seven Wonders of the World. The ancient ruins of the Memphis area, including the Pyramids of Giza, Ṣaqqārah, Dahshūr, Abū Ruwaysh, and Abū Ṣīr, were collectively designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1979.
Khufu’s pyramid is perhaps the most colossal single building ever erected on the planet. Its sides rise at an angle of 51°52′ and are accurately oriented to the four cardinal points of the compass. The Great Pyramid’s core is made of yellowish limestone blocks, the outer casing (now almost completely gone) and the inner passages are of finer light-coloured limestone, and the interior burial chamber is built of huge blocks of granite. Approximately 2.3 million blocks of stone were cut, transported, and assembled to create the 5.75-million-ton structure, which is a masterpiece of technical skill and engineering ability. The internal walls as well as those few outer-casing stones that still remain in place show finer joints than any other masonry constructed in ancient Egypt.
The question of how the pyramids were built has not received a wholly satisfactory answer. The most plausible one is that the Egyptians employed a sloping and encircling embankment of brick, earth, and sand, which was increased in height and in length as the pyramid rose; stone blocks were hauled up the ramp by means of sledges, rollers, and levers. According to the ancient Greek historian Herodotus, the Great Pyramid took 20 years(!) to construct and demanded the labour of 100,000 men. This figure is believable given the assumption that these men, who were agricultural labourers, worked on the pyramids only (or primarily) while there was little work to be done in the fields—i.e., when the Nile River was in flood. By the late 20th century, however, archaeologists found evidence that a more limited workforce may have occupied the site on a permanent rather than a seasonal basis. It was suggested that as few as 20,000 workers(!), with accompanying support personnel (bakers, physicians, priests, etc.), would have been adequate for the task.
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Restoration or something is going on at the Step Pyramid. Below it is the Funerary complex of Djoser.
Pyramids made of spices in one of the shops in Irani Souq, Doha
Exif - 1/100, 4.0, ISO-1600 at 55mm
Camera - Canon 400D
Lens - Sigma 55.0 - 200.0 mm
Several of the mountains in the Mavri Laki valley look like pyramids. This is even more obvious at night.
SUSS Crete Expedition 2010, 15 members of SUSS took to the mountains to find and explore previously unknown (mostly) caves. For 2 weeks we lived on food carried in on our backs and water sourced from a near by cave. Lefka Ori (White Mountains), Mavri Laki Valley.
The Pyramidal Orchid "Anacamptis pyramidalis
"I love this little gem of an Orchid. Raising it's spike above the dry, summer grass, waving it's head in the warm breeze with it's vivid pink blooms standing out so brightly, a real testimony of summer meadows and chalk banks. Here the sun is setting below the tops of Beech and Birch trees lining a chalky orchid bank in my home town of Faversham, usually famous for it's Monkey Orchids but we also have a good collection of Man, Birds-nest and Common Spotted as well as these stunning Pyramidal's.