The Pyramid of Cheops in Egypt is one of the oldest and well-preserved architectural monuments. It is one of the Seven Wonders of the World and is a center of attraction for tourists from all over the world. For many millennia, the Cheops pyramid remained the tallest structure on the planet.

History and secrets of the construction of the pyramid

The construction of the pyramid began during the lifetime of Pharaoh Cheops (Khufu), for whom it was supposed to serve as a tomb. The exact date of foundation is unknown, although all possible research methods were used to establish it. Their results vary. Scientists call 2720 BC. e, 2577 BC. e. and 2708 BC. e. At the same time, in Egypt itself the official date of the founding of the pyramid is considered August 23, 2560 BC uh.

Another problem in establishing the age of the Cheops pyramid is that there is no mention of it in ancient papyri. For the first time in the 5th century BC. e. the construction is described by Herodotus.

As for construction technology, everything here is also ambiguous. Some scientists seriously suggest that the tomb of Cheops was built by aliens. Its scale, the accuracy of mathematical calculations and the quality of construction are so amazing.

Interesting fact! It could take 20-40 years to build one of the Seven Wonders of the World.

For the construction of the Cheops pyramid, a place with stable and dense soil was chosen. Main material - limestone, blocks of which were cut out of the rock and then hewn. The weight of one block was 2.5 tons, and some specimens weighed several tens of tons. The methods of transporting and lifting them still remain a mystery.

Description of the structure

Visually, the Cheops pyramid looks like a stepped mountain. Its base covers an area of ​​53,000 square meters. m. Previously, the surface was covered with durable, cladding slabs shining in the sun, but now they are completely absent. Part of it was removed in 1168 by the Arabs who plundered the city, and part of it was taken by the Egyptians themselves to build houses.

The original height of the Cheops pyramid was 149 m. Over its centuries-old history, it has somewhat collapsed and subsided, so now the landmark of Egypt is 11 meters lower. To understand the scale of construction, it is worth knowing that this is the height of a 50-story building.

The blocks in the pyramid are laid in layers. The height of each layer varies and ranges from 60-150 cm. This may indicate that there were periods of excess and shortage of labor during the construction process.

It is noticeable to the naked eye that pyramid faces are concave. Now none of the scientists is ready to answer for sure whether this is the result of subsidence of the structure or whether it was originally intended.

The entrance to the tomb of Cheops is located on its northern side at an altitude of almost 16 meters. It is formed by stones laid in a certain way.

Interesting fact! The true entrance to the Cheops pyramid has not been preserved; it is blocked with a granite plug. The entrance that tourists and researchers now use is a breach made by one of the Baghdad caliphs. He wanted to find the pharaoh's treasures in the building.

Internal structure of the pyramid

Inside the Cheops pyramid are burial chambers, connected by descending and ascending corridors. Main premises of the building:

• Pharaoh's burial chamber;
• unfinished chamber number 5;
• "Queen's Chamber"
• Large gallery.

From the entrance to the burial chambers there is a descending corridor, the length of which is 105 m. In the first third it has a fork: one corridor continues to go down and leads to the unfinished chamber number 5, the second leads up to the tombs of the pharaoh and his wife.

To get to the pharaoh's burial chamber, you need to go through the ascending Great Gallery - a tunnel 2 m wide and 8.74 m high. At the bottom of the walls in the gallery there are paired ledges, the purpose of which is unknown. These can be containers for a lifting, locking or other massive mechanism.

The pharaoh's burial chamber is quite spacious. Its floor is located at a height of 43 m from the base of the structure. It is difficult to establish the exact height of the ceilings, since the surface of the floor and walls is highly deformed. Highly polished granite was used to finish the chamber. In the room there is a granite sarcophagus of Cheops, on which there are no inscriptions or decor, and the lid is missing.

"Queen's Chamber" should not be in the tomb of the pharaoh, since the wives of the rulers were buried separately. However, a stepped niche in the room suggests that this is a female burial. The chamber has a rectangular shape and a gable roof supported by walls about 4.5 m high.

Interesting fact! The Pyramid of Cheops is extremely laconic inside. There are no wall inscriptions, rich decorations, or decor to be found there. It is assumed that if anything valuable was stored in the tomb, it was taken out long before the first researchers came there.

Interesting facts about the Cheops pyramid

The history of the Cheops pyramid has many interesting facts and scientific theories, mysterious rumors and legends. Not a single excursion is complete without getting to know them.

Here are some of them:

• The approximate weight of the structure is 6.5 million tons.
• The construction took 2.25 million limestone blocks.
• Inside the pyramid, the temperature does not rise above +20 ℃, even if it is +50 ℃ outside.
• There is an assumption that the tomb of Cheops served as an observatory for the ancient Egyptians, since its edges correspond to the four cardinal directions.
• It is believed that the builders of the tomb had excellent knowledge about the circumference of the Earth, the speed of light, the golden ratio, and mathematical quantities that were somehow incorporated into the structure.
• Contrary to popular belief, it is believed that the pyramid was not built by slaves, but by professional masons.
• Scientists have never been able to prove that the body of Cheops once lay in the sarcophagus of the tomb.
• Inside the pyramid there are narrow shafts, through which the wind makes certain sounds.
• There is a version that the Egyptians only rebuilt the pyramid created by representatives of the previous civilization.

Note! Scanning of the pyramid and other modern studies suggest that there are several more rooms inside it that have yet to be explored.

Visiting an attraction

Visits the Pyramid of Cheops about 3 million people per year. They explore not only one of the Seven Wonders of the World, but also the surrounding buildings. These are three satellite pyramids, ruins ancient temple, and modern museum, where the main exhibit is an ancient Egyptian boat.

At night, tourists are shown a light and sound show, when each building is illuminated with spotlights and their history is told, Interesting Facts. In a small shop you can buy memorable souvenirs.

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There is probably not a person who does not know the main Egyptian attraction - the Pyramid of Cheops. And the number of tourists who have visited Egypt and not visited the only surviving Seven Wonders of the World can only be counted on one hand.

Despite numerous studies, the Cheops pyramid keeps many secrets. The pharaoh's sarcophagus has not yet been found.

The height of the largest pyramid in Egypt today is 140 meters, and the total area is more than 5 hectares. The Pyramid of Cheops is made up of - attention - 2.5 million stone blocks! To deliver these blocks to the construction site, the ancient Egyptians had to overcome distances of hundreds of kilometers! It took 20 years to build the Cheops pyramid.

Millennia have passed, but the pyramid is still highly revered in Egypt. Every year in August, the Egyptians celebrate the day the construction began.

True, historians have never found reliable information confirming this fact.

Climbing

The entrance to the pyramid of Cheops, like all ancient Egyptian tombs, is located on the north side at a height of about 17 m. Inside the pyramid there are three burial chambers and a whole network of descending and ascending corridors leading to these rooms. For the convenience of tourists, multi-meter passages are equipped with wooden steps and railings. Lighting in the pyramid has been done, but it is better to take a flashlight with you.

Despite numerous studies and excavations, the pyramid of Cheops keeps many secrets. So, for example, it has not yet been possible to find a corridor leading to the chamber with the pharaoh's sarcophagus.

In the funeral room of the ruler's wife, scientists discovered secret doors that supposedly symbolize the road to afterworld. But the archaeologists could not open the last door...

Near the pyramid of Cheops, several disassembled boats were found. Now everyone can admire the assembled ships (by the way, it took the researchers almost 14 years to do this).

Practical Information

How to get there: by bus or taxi from Tahrir Square in Cairo (about 20 minutes on the way), from Hurghada (5-6 hours), from Sharm El Sheikh (7-8 hours).

Working hours: daily from 8:00 to 17:00, in winter - until 16:30.

Entrance: on the territory - 80 EGP (for adults), 40 EGP (for children); to the pyramid - 200 EGP (for adults), 100 EGP (for children).

The Pyramid of Cheops is a rare case in Egyptology when we can be sure who owns the monument. Often the ancient monuments of Egypt were appropriated by later rulers. The technology of appropriation was very simple - the name of the pharaoh-builder (cartouche) was simply lost from the inscriptions in the temple or in the tomb, and another name was knocked out.

This phenomenon was very common. Take, for example, the famous Pharaoh Tutankhamun. Until 1922, when archaeologist Howard Carter dug up, Egyptologists doubted the existence of this ruler. There was almost no written evidence about him; everything was destroyed by subsequent pharaohs.

In the 19th century, archaeologists often used very barbaric research methods. In the Cheops pyramid, gunpowder explosions were used to find hidden rooms. You can still see traces of such methods on the surfaces of structures (see photo on the left).

During this study, small rooms were discovered above the main burial chamber. Explorers rushed there in the hope of finding treasure, but, of course, there was nothing there except dust.

These rooms, only 1 meter in height, had a purely technical purpose. These are unloading chambers; they protect the ceiling of the burial chamber from collapse and relieve mechanical stress. But it was on the walls of these unloading chambers that scientists discovered inscriptions made by ancient builders.

These were block markings. Just as we now put a label on a product, the ancient Egyptian foremen marked the blocks: “This block is for the pyramid of Khufu, produced at that time, laid at that time.” These inscriptions cannot be fake; they prove that this structure was built by Cheops.

A little about Pharaoh Cheops

In the last paragraph we used the name “Khufu”. This is the official Egyptian name of this pharaoh. Cheops is the Greek interpretation of his name, and not the most common one. Other pronunciations “Cheops” or “Kiops” are more common.

The name “Khufu” is more common in the world. If you are going on an excursion to Giza with a Russian-speaking guide, then there will be no problems, he will be aware of this phonetic difference. But if you communicate with local residents or tourists from other countries, we recommend using the name “Khufu”.

Although Pharaoh Khufu is one of the, it is impossible to write much about him. We know very little about him.

In addition to the fact of the construction of this pyramid, we know that Khufu organized expeditions to develop useful resources in the Sinai Peninsula. That's all. To this day, only two artifacts have survived from Khufu - a giant pyramid 137 meters high and a small ivory figurine only 7.5 centimeters high (pictured on the right).

Pharaoh Cheops remained in people's memory as a tyrant ruler who forced people to work on grandiose construction. We can read about this in the works of the Greek historian Herodotus, who visited Egypt and recorded the stories of the priests.

Surprisingly, his father, Pharaoh Snofru, remained in people's memory as a very kind ruler, although he built as many as three pyramids (and) and overexerted the country twice as much as Cheops.

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Many articles and books have been written about the Egyptian pyramid of Cheops, considering it from the standpoint of a modern materialistic view, without taking into account that it was built during the period of a previous highly developed civilization, the knowledge of which has not reached us. The Pyramid of Cheops, with its enormous size, involuntarily raises the question of the methods of its construction. The hypotheses put forward in this regard are far from the truth.

The Pyramid of Cheops, built about 4,600 years ago, is located on a rock plateau in the Libyan Desert. The stones for its construction were brought mainly from the quarries of the Makkatim Highlands, which is located east of the Nile River. The construction of the pyramid was carried out under the leadership of the famous architect Khafre over a period of 20 years. According to ancient sources, peasants took part in its construction only three months a year, in their free time from field work, during the Nile flood. But this does not exclude the work of a small number of specialists who prepared the work front for thousands of seasonal peasant builders.

The purpose of building a tomb pyramid.

The word “pyramid” literally translated from Greek means “fire that is inside.” By “fire” here we must understand the presence of an ordered energy flow both inside and outside the pyramid. Similar energy flows can be observed in crystals (quartz, diamond...), in trees, etc. A vertical energy flow is formed above the top of the pyramid (tree...), which is sometimes called a cosmic channel (pillar). In the morning, at dawn, this energy flow can be seen above the top of the pyramid with the naked eye. The energy flows at the top of the Cheops pyramid connect with the energy flows of neighboring pyramids, forming a channel-energy connection with each other. In nature, a similar energy connection is observed in trees of crystals (druze), etc. At the same time, the formation of an additional dome energy shell, a collective aura, is observed above them. Until now, the pyramid was considered as a material body without taking into account its energy properties, just as in medicine the physical body of a person is studied without taking into account his other six subtle bodies.

The pyramid, like the human physical body, is only a material frame for subtle energy systems. Legends say that the pyramid contains the Great Stone, which flew from Space to Earth. He has great energy and magical powers. Similar stones are found in the Kaaba mosque (Mecca, Saudi Arabia) in the Himalayas, and was previously with Emperor Tatzlau in Atlantis, who is buried in Taimyr. These are stones of spiritual centers and centers of civilization.

To create energy vertical columns of cosmic communication (streams) on Earth, humanity has used a variety of technical solutions throughout the millennia. For example, in mountainous areas The tops of the mountains were built in the form of pyramids, tents, sphinxes and other structures, and underneath them were tombs. In flat areas, artificial architectural above-ground or underground structures were created (mounds, pyramids, labyrinthine drawings...)

The pyramid has design characteristics to obtain the necessary types of energy flows. The larger the pyramid, the more powerful its energy flow. Above the top of Mount Everest (Himalayas) there is one of the most powerful energy flows on Earth.
The tombs of Ancient Egypt are found both in mountainous areas (near Lake Victoria) and in lowland areas (near the Nile Delta). Their construction was carried out mainly during the heyday ancient civilization, which had a high technical level of development (air transport (vimanas, chariots), eternal lamps, energy, laser, nuclear, sound weapons, etc.).

Start of construction.

The Pyramid of Cheops has a height of about 150 meters with a base length of one side of 250 meters. It was built on the western bank of the Nile, near the city of Cairo.
The famous architect Khafre did not build this pyramid from scratch. Here were very ancient squat pyramids made of monolithic stone, which were called “remnants” by modern experts. Khafre used one of the ancient pyramids with its energy flows and underground passages (built about 14,000 years ago) for its intended purpose, increasing its height and redesigning the internal passages and rooms. This ancient pyramid had a powerful foundation and special entrances to the dungeons for underground work.

The Cheops pyramid, like the ancient one, is oriented towards spiritual centers (Shambhala in the east, and Thule in the north), since the north pole 12,000 years ago was located in northwestern Canada near the border with America. The geographic North Pole is constantly migrating around the globe.

By using the ancient pyramid as the basis for a new one, the builders achieved a significant reduction in labor and material costs and a reduction in construction time. Now no one remembers the more ancient builders, although more than half the volume of the Cheops pyramid is made up of stones ancient pyramid. The original monolithic pyramid (remnant) had its own burial chamber with other dungeons. During the construction of the pyramid, Khafre made a new redevelopment of the dungeons. Therefore, some voids from the ancient pyramid that do not fit into the new layout do not find a logical explanation among researchers.

Today we will take a trip back several thousand years, to the time of the ancient pharaohs and the majestic pyramids. To do this, we will go to the Giza Plateau, a suburb with a population of more than 3 million inhabitants, which is visited by tens of thousands of tourists every year. After all, this is where the Great Pyramids of Egypt are located, and not in Cairo itself, as many are accustomed to believe. And it is this place that provides us with an amazing opportunity to see with our own eyes the only one of the 7 wonders of the world that has survived to this day - the Pyramid of Cheops, as well as one of the largest statues in the world - the famous Great Sphinx. Just think, the complex has existed for more than 4,500 years! These numbers make my head spin.

What is Giza, a suburb of Cairo, like today?

The modern district of Giza looks poor and unattractive. Nothing special - a lot of cars, people, shops, signs...

...sometimes not entirely clear.

Smiling residents of modern Giza.

Ironically, the inconspicuous town is adjacent to one of the most famous ancient architectural complexes in the world. What immediately catches your eye is the unusual combination of city buildings and the tops of the pyramids hanging over them. The majestic pyramids seem to beckon you, inviting you to come closer to lift the veil of their secrets and legends.

GIZA PYRAMID COMPLEX

Information:
Giza pyramid complex
Location: Pyramids Road, Giza
How to get there: by bus: stop next to the Ramses Hilton hotel - bus 357, or minibuses towards Giza; by metro: The Giza station, then by minibus or taxi to the pyramids; by taxi (20-30 pounds)
Cost: 80 LE, students – 40 LE
Opening hours: summer – 7:00-19:00, winter – 8:00-17:00
The ticket includes entrance to the Giza Plateau (external viewing of the pyramids), a visit to the Valley Temple of Khafre, the satellite pyramids of Cheops, and some free-standing small pyramids

Individual tickets:
Pyramid of Khufu – 200 LE, students – 100 LE; summer – 8:00-11:00, 13:00-18:00, winter – 8:00-11:00, 13:00-17:00; Only 150 tickets are sold before the break and 150 after.
Pyramid of Khafre – 40 LE, students – 20 LE; Pyramid of Menkaure - temporarily closed;
Museum of the Solar Boat – 60 LE;
ISIC card discounts available for students

Sound and Light Show– daily at 19:00 – in English, 20:00 – German, Italian, Spanish, French (depending on the day of the week), 21:00 – in Arabic. Duration - about an hour. It is possible to translate into Russian, Japanese, Polish, Chinese and other languages ​​(via headphones, included in the price).
Phones: (+202) 338-57320, (+202) 338-47823, (+202) 338-67374

Photography is prohibited inside the pyramids. Shooting on a plateau with a tripod - 20 LE. Tickets for the plateau and separate tickets for entry to the pyramids of Cheops and Khafre, as well as the light show, are sold near different entrances.

Briefly about the main thing. The Giza Plateau lies in the Libyan Desert. Here are buildings from the times of the Old Kingdom (XXVI-XXIII centuries BC). The basis of the complex is made up of 3 Great Pyramids along with their satellite pyramids. Also on the plan of Giza you can see the tombs of members of the families of the pharaohs and nobility, the statue of the Great Sphinx, 4 cemeteries, several temples, modern center exploring the pyramids and museum. To look at all these buildings in detail, you will most likely need a whole day. Unfortunately, I didn’t have that much time, so only the most important objects are included in my article.

Complex plan:

And this is what the Great Pyramids look like from a bird's eye view. You can even see them from an airplane window if you fly over Cairo. So, during my first flight to Egypt, a good half of the passengers gathered at the windows when the captain announced that if we all moved together to the right side of the cabin, the plane would tilt from such a weight, and we would be able to see the pyramids. It worked :)

In the evenings, the Sphinx hosts light shows on the theme of Ancient Egypt and the pyramids (Sound and Light Show) in several languages ​​(for an additional fee).

I want to warn you - be careful with such touts. One friend told me the story of how her son was almost forcibly put on a camel and began to take photographs “absolutely free of charge.” But in order to remove the frightened guy from the hump of the proud ship of the desert, and return the camera to the owner, they began to demand baksheesh. I had to threaten with guides and police. The moral of this story is this: you can go for a ride, but be careful. If something happens, immediately boldly declare that you will call a guide now, even if you came here alone. This, oddly enough, works. Just don’t think that I’m dissuading you from doing this beautiful pictures on a camel. In my opinion, the idea is wonderful, the main thing is to agree on the price in advance :)

The Great Pyramids of Giza: the main decoration of the complex.

What kind of pyramids were not built in Ancient Egypt- stepped, broken, pink, huge or very tiny... The most famous of them - the Great Pyramids - are located in the central part of the Giza complex, where they are located on the same line - from the largest to the smallest. This pyramids of Cheops (Khufu), Khafre (Khafre) and Mikerin (Menkaure).

!!Fact: As you know, these 3 pharaohs were related. Khafre was the brother or son of Cheops, and Mikerin was the son of Khafre.

Each of the pyramids has its own “satellite pyramids”, where members of the families of the pharaohs are buried, and its own mortuary temple (see complex plan). Here they are, beauties, towering against the backdrop of Cairo.

From this angle, it seems that the pyramid with the “tip” is the largest in size, but in fact, it is the middle of the three - the Pyramid of Khafre.

The next photo shows the smallest pyramid of Mikerin with its tiny companions. Mikerin and Cheops each got 3 “satellite pyramids,” but Khafre got only one.

Until now, scientists are arguing whether these pyramids were built by people or alien beings, whether they were intended only for burials or had other secret meanings. If only I could go back in time for real, take at least one glance at the life of Giza several thousand years ago... Oh, dreams...

Pyramid of Cheops: along the corridors of one of the Wonders of the World.

After clicking a few “postcards”, I went inside the Cheops pyramid. The only one from our group. What kind of incurious people are these? So, gentlemen, it is the largest and most famous of Egyptian pyramids, the only one of the Seven Wonders of the World that has survived to this day. Hurray, and I saw it with my own eyes! Another name for the Cheops pyramid is Great Pyramid(Great pyramid). It was intended, in fact, for the burial of Pharaoh Cheops (or Khufu).

Its 3 companions - small pyramids standing nearby - are the pyramid of Queen Hetepheres (GIa) - the mother of Khufu, the pyramid of Queen Meritit I (GIb) - the 1st wife of Khufu, and the pyramid of Henutsen (GIc) - the 2nd wife of Khufu. One of them is visible in the photograph.

!!Fact: Initially, the top of the Cheops pyramid was gilded.

She probably has the most crowds of people than the other points of the complex combined. Everyone wants to touch her, smell her, lean against her, take a picture...

Here are the main parameters of the Cheops pyramid:

• The height of the pyramid is 139 meters.
• The 4 sides of its base are 230 meters long each, with a slight difference.
• Materials for construction - limestone, basalt, granite.
• The total weight of the pyramid is more than 6 million tons. It consists of about 2.5 million stone blocks. The average size of each block is 1 m³, the average weight is 2.5 tons. The heaviest of them weighs as much as 35 tons.

You can climb onto the blocks, which is what I did. True, not too high, otherwise the guards will start swearing. An excellent chance to “touch the antiquity” yourself.

As for the entrance, there are as many as 2 of them. Previously, one entered through the old entrance. The current one is located a little lower, and tourists pass through it these days. It was once broken into the wall of a pyramid, hoping to find treasure there. Not found.

So, let's go inside, passing through the open gate in the background. Unfortunately, this photograph was the only “legal” one inside the Cheops pyramid: for some reason, photography is prohibited here. You must leave your camera at the entrance at your own risk. I resisted for a long time; I was simply scared for the fate of my camera. True, in the end he was returned safe and sound. Further photographs will be taken using the phone, which I carefully hid so that it would not fall into the hands of security :)

The first impression of the pyramid is dim light and silence inside, long and very narrow corridors. There are no statues or wall paintings inside, such as are found, for example, in later tombs in. It has its own special atmosphere.

But imagine my disappointment when I discovered that you could only walk along a few corridors and enter only a few rooms. I compared what was open to tourists with what was on the pyramid plan, and realized that only a third was open to inspection. As a result, the entire hike down to the final point and back, if you don’t look at every corner, took only a few minutes. That's the whole Great Pyramid. I read the comments on the Internet, and came to the conclusion that either I somehow missed the passages to the top, or at that time they were simply closed. I'll explain what we're talking about. Look at Cheops pyramid plan.

As we can see, inside it there are 3 burial chambers, one of which for some reason was not completed. Also, the pyramid has a system of corridors with a large gallery. This is what I expected to see in theory. In fact, what I managed to get through - this is the path from the entrance (2) along the descending corridor (4) to the unfinished underground chamber (5). That's it, comrades! It's a shame.

Descending corridor (4).

The length of the corridor is 105 m. The descent occurs at a large slope. If for some reason you want to stop in the middle, it is unlikely that you will be able to do so unless you want to delay others: the passage is really narrow and does not even accommodate two people wide. Next comes short tunnel, leading to an unfinished underground chamber (5). I saw another passage, closed with bars. Apparently, behind it lies the missing part on the pyramid plan.

Camera (5) is a small, nondescript room. That's all, actually. Maybe I was looking in the wrong place?

Finally, one more fact. In the 20th century, a large wooden rook (boat), disassembled into parts, was found in one of the rooms. Now it is in the Solar Boat Museum, located next to the pyramid. Unfortunately, I did not have enough time to visit the museum.

We move on to another one of the most beloved tourist spots in the Giza complex - the Great Sphinx statue, the oldest surviving monumental statue in the world. Let me remind you that in Ancient Egypt the sphinx was a stone figure of a lion with the head of a man. For several millennia it has been basking in the Egyptian sun, carefully guarding the plateau and its buildings.

The height of the Sphinx is 20 m, its width is 73 m. For its age, the statue has been perfectly preserved to this day, although it has lost its nose in the fight against sandy winds. The face of the mythical animal is turned towards the Nile, from where the sun rises. Scientists believe that it bears portrait resemblance to Pharaoh Mikerin, the “master” of one of the three Great Pyramids.

What kind of photographs do travelers who come here take with the Sphinx... Some jump in front of him, others try to hug him, and still others even give him a kiss as hot as the Libyan desert. I was no exception. The Sphinx impressed me almost more than the pyramids themselves, and I think he deserved this kiss.

Next to the statue there is an extension - Temple of the Sphinx. Together they form a single complex. You don’t need separate tickets to visit the temple, no matter how one of the barkers tried to convince me otherwise. He, of course, tried to act as an usher himself.

I end my story with this romantic kiss shot. See you again with the heat of Egypt!