Link to Wikipedia Luxor is the site of the Ancient Egyptian city of Waset, known to the Greeks as Thebes. Luxor has frequently been characterized as the “world’s greatest open-air museum”, with ruins of the temple complexes at Karnak and Luxor standing within the modern city. Across the River Nile lie the monuments, temples, and tombs […]
Link to Wikipedia The Giza Plateau is the site of some of the most impressive ancient monuments in the world, including a complex of ancient Egyptian royal mortuary and sacred structures, including the Great Sphinx, the Great Pyramid of Giza, and a number of other large pyramids and temples. Giza has always been a focal […]
Link to Wikipedia The Karnak Temple Complex is a collection of temples, chapels, pylons, and other buildings near Luxor, in Egypt. Construction at the complex began during the reign of Senusret I (1971 BC to 1926 BCE) in the Middle Kingdom and continued into the Ptolemaic period (332 to 30 BCE), although most of the […]
We went to Bethlehem to celebrate Christmas Eve. Tucked away in the middle of Israel, in the Palestinian Authority is the place where Jesus Christ was born. Machine guns, war zone, conflict…all quite different from what one might expect in a place that is where these religions were born. This was one of my most […]
Link to Wikipedia Masada is an ancient fortification in the Southern District of Israel situated on top of a mesa. Located on the eastern edge of the Judaean Desert, it overlooks the Dead Sea. Herod the Great fortified Masada between 37 and 31 BCE. According to Josephus, the siege of Masada by troops of the […]
