Great Pyramid Climb: Andrej Ciesielski’s 2016 Video and Lifetime Ban
In early 2016, an 18-year-old German tourist named Andrej Ciesielski slipped past the guards at Giza and climbed the Great Pyramid of Khufu...
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Egypt: Stories & Places to Explore
Explore Saint Simon’s cave church in Cairo, its modern community history and rock-cut setting, with thoughtful advice for a respectful visit. Discover Thonis-Heracleion, Egypt’s sunken port, through archaeological research, its double name and the difference between ruins and exhibits.
Start with Saint Simon’s Cave Churches, Cairo: A Thoughtful Visitor Guide and Thonis-Heracleion: What Egypt’s Sunken Port Reveals.
Egypt Travel Guide: Giza, Luxor, Aswan, Sharm el-Sheikh and Alexandria
Egypt rewards travellers who pick their bases well. Five places cover most of what first-time visitors come for: the pyramids at Giza, the t...
Thonis-Heracleion: Egypt’s Sunken Port City in Abu Qir Bay
For centuries Thonis-Heracleion was known only from ancient writers and a few inscriptions. Then, in 2000, divers led by French underwater ...
Cave Church of Saint Simon, Cairo: The Rock-Cut Church of the Zabbaleen
At the foot of the Mokattam cliffs on the eastern edge of Cairo, a church has been carved into the living rock that can hold up to 20,000 wo...