What is Egypt? This is a very profound question. The very name conjures up, mummies, pyramids, sphinxes and temples. The Ancient Egyptians are so far away from us in time that Caesar is closer to us than to the time of Great Pyramids at Giza. Most of this once great civilization has all but vanished. But so astonishing were their achievements that even today they dwarf all early civilizations in architecture and sheer scale of their constructions. But their achievements goes way beyond the pyramids. The Greeks tell us that much of their knowledge of medicine, mathematics, geometry, pharmacology and so many other fields came from the Ancients Egyptians. Recent archeological evidence suggest that the Ancient Egyptians developed writing before the Sumarians, c. 3200 BCE. So Egypt has played pivotal role in human civilization. From the monuments we see can that the Ancient Egyptians were a deeply spiritual people, that they loved life so much, they wanted it to continue for eternity.
To me Ancient Egypt represents the infinite potential of human civilization. How could such an ancient people build such wonders? All later civilizations, including the Greeks and Romans, admired Egypt's great achievements. The Greeks had many very large temples built to worship their gods during the Ptolemeic Period (332BCE to 30BCE).
Here I present some photographs taken all over Egypt. It is such a vast and ancient land that no set of images can surely convey the beauty of the country. I have tried to capture some 'typical' scenes of daily life, its geography, and some hard to reach ancients sites, in effect to try and convey a better perspective of this Egypt.