Sites in Egypt and Jordan Photo Gallery by normagerber at pbase.com

Sites in Egypt and Jordan

These photos of Egypt were made one year before the Revolution. Encountering the streetlife in Luxor, one could see the need for change in the humble lives of poor people. Elsewhere, the tourist sites dwarfed these problems. In Jordan, the drama of Petra seized the imagination.

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Luxor market spotlight	Luxor (Thebes) Market	busy street scene	watching the ducks
why spoil the furniture?	man at ease	Happy Girl Aims	what can he see?
ancient & modern Egypt	tire makes a toy	motorcycle, rug, and waterpipe	a horse is led along
making purchases	fresh fish	donkeys	turban and waterpipe
spice market	laundry and shadows	old man	carrying freshly baked bread
view of Cairo	The great pyramid (Khufu)	camel rides are available	young boys play on their camels
young rider on his camel	It's a puzzlement	The Great Two	after school group in Cairo
Young girls after school	Yes, KFC is everywhere	Arabic signs	Mickey Mouse In Cairo
inside the Coptic church	Cairo policemen	View of Cairo mosques	street view of oranges
Sad boy in van	Cleopatra in bazaar	mannikins on street	jewelry store in Al Kahili Bazaar
brasses in bazaar	old gate at Al Kahili Bazaar	old architecture at Bazaar	Al Fishawy cafe in Bazaar
view of mosques	inside of Sultan Hassan Mosque	mihrab	closeup of colors, curves at Sultan Hassan
Cairo street scene	Cairo street, buildings	wedding party on the road	delicate minaret at sunset
entrance to Abu Simbel	one of many Rameses statues inside	Rameses defeating enemies	feluccas
Hathor temple honors Nefertari (wife of Rameses)	Hathor Temple	all aboard the Mojito	aswan high dam
guideAyman,"habibie it's like this..."	Courtyard with collonade at Philae temple	Isis Horus Seth at Philae	winged protector at Philae
Pavilion of Nectanebo dedicated to Hathor	offering at Philae	temple of Horus at Edfu(btw Lux & Aswan)	pylon Ptolemy XII defeats enemies
goddess of night on ceiling	hierogyphics on high walls	Osiris as ibis	hypostyle hall with huge columns
sacred barque in chapel in Horus sanctuary	remains of color	model of structure	description of hypostyle hall
soaring collonaded court	hieroglyphics	cartouches in color	statue of falcon Horus
ptolemy XII	temple of Horus and Sobek (2 entrances)	Fighters	view of Nile
at Kom Ombo (double temple)	long court with colonnade	Greek priests visit	ancient columns of Temple of Sobek
Sobek crocodile is Seth, killer of Osiris	at temple of Sobek	original color of sky goddess wings	ancient walls
coronation	solar barque	at Sobek	walking through courtyards
at Sobek	columns	temple of Hatshepsut.	Hatshepsut Temple site in Valley of Kings
Hatshepsut	Hatshepsut	Rameses at Hatshepsut	Rameses statues at Hatshepsut
Rameses	guard	Hatshepsut as Hathor	Hatshepsut as Hathor
colossi of Memnon	Nubian salesmen	view of Nubian village from Nile	house at Nubian village
the crocodile is luck, fertility	Arabic teacher	a Nubian dwelling	knives for sale
Nubian children	crocodile in house for luck	avenue of ram sphinxes at Karnak	Karnak
Karnak Rameses II	Karnak sacred lake	group at Luxor	Luxor Temple to Amun, Mut, Khonsa
dual statues of Rameses	obelisk at Luxor (other is in Paris)	Papyrus bud columns	Rameses at Luxor
Luxor on Rameses statue	mosque overhanging temple	mosque over Luxor	Rameses at Luxor
remains of Christian church fresco	Luxor	Luxor collonade	Luxor
Opet festival-gods go btw Lux & Karnak	avenue of sphinxes connects to Karnak	what a cane!	Moses died in Jordan
Ajun castle	castle relief	church of St George in Jordan	St. George
Gate to Jerash Roman ruins	guide at Jerash	well preserved avenue of columns	nymphaneum
ruins before city of Jerash	ancient portal	theater	well preserved oval of columns
coptic cross and stone balls	Roman theater at Jerash	Petra, Jordan shadow on rock	rich colorations at Petra
curves and light	canyon	split in rock	tombs
gold and grey abstraction	first view of Treasury	Treasury	tomb opening
striations	patterns	theater	tombs
rider among the rocks	camels for hire	tombs	camels at rest, end of a journey

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