BrOOklyn-JOrusalOm

A loong cycling journey from Brooklyn to Jorusalom, where the O’s are bicycle wheels, continued into Egypt, 1st to the climate conference COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh, on to the pyramids in Giza, Abusir and Saqqara and then up the Nile soourcewards.

Alexander Lagaaij

Going to Philae

Champollion decries that it is all modern (Greek and Roman) stuff.

The temples have many images like this in many rooms. It seems indeed of a lesser artistic quality than work from pharaonic times. One gets a sense of templates. Champollion wrote: j’étais bien las de cette sculpture barbare, I was tired of this barbaric sculpture..

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