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I'll be gone for a week in Egypt, starting Saturday. A day between Cairo and Giza, and three and a half days in Alexandria, as part of a project on the latter city. I think I've got it pretty well scoped out, but if anyone wants a picture of something specific, let me know. No guarantees -- I won't have much time in the National Museum, unfortunately.

Hey Dan, snap me a shot of the pyramids...not sure when I'll be getting there!

See if you can track down the elusive Fayum Shield !! lol:
........just kidding, but sometimes an inquiry on the spot/ in-country can provide surprising answers....alleged missing statues/reliefs that turn out to be in situ all the time etc....

Can you get pics of the area the light house and harbour were located..
I could not for the life of me figure out which peninsula was which when we flew in and out last year......guess but not 100%.....it would be nice to know anyway.....

Oh, just dig up Alexander's tomb. It's been missing for ever so long...

The remains of the Hellenistic wall in the Shallalat gardens in Alexandria: according to Chugg the only surviving part of the tomb of Alexander the Great. I had no opportunity to take that photo myself when I visited Alexandria two months ago.

Have a great time Dan!
I'll be happy to see *any* pictures you take, I just wanna see the rest of the world!

Have a lovely time, Dan!

I'm baaaaack.

A selection of 400 or so pictures from my trip are uploaded here at Flickr. Photos by request.... the Pyramid of Khafre, the tower in the Shallalat Gardens (Jona, there are more in my set, and you can use any you might like), and the Eastern Harbor, in the right background of which you can see Ft. Qaitbey, the site of the ancient Lighthouse...

Great pics, Dan, thanks.
I know that being there in person is even more breathtaking.

Wonderfull!

Quote:(Jona, there are more in my set, and you can use any you might like)

I've sent a p.m. THANKS!!

Darn! I'd have asked for pictures of anything of Legion III that may be there, marker stones and the like.

These pictures are great! Thanks for sharing!

Hope you had a blast. Next time take me...Pleeeaasssseee!

Great pics Dan, wish I had been able to get some arials when we flew in and out there, then I could have located the place......

Quote:Darn! I'd have asked for pictures of anything of Legion III that may be there, marker stones and the like.

If I'd seen any, I certainly would have taken a photo! There frankly isn't that much left, at least not that's visible. The Graeco-Roman Museum will be closed for (at least) another 7 years, and while the new National Museum of Alexandria and the Antiquities Museum in the Bibliotheca Alexandrina have picked up some of the slack, they don't exhibit a lot of the more "pedestrian" (to must people) stuff.