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Khufu's Pyramid
Date Added: 18th Jan 2021
Site Type: Pyramid / Mastaba
Country: Egypt (Lower Egypt (North))
Visited: Yes on 18th May 2009. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4
Khufu's Pyramid submitted by AlexHunger on 26th Mar 2006. Largest of the pyramids with a height of 146 Meters, sides of 230 Meters and an angle of 51.5 degrees. It is the only surviving 7 wonders of the world.
There are 3 chambers and a grand Gallery angled passage.
4th Dynasty Pharao Khufu was the son of Sneferu who finally mastered the art and logistics of building pyramids.
There is only one small ivory statue of Khufu in existance, which is exhibited in the Cairo museum.
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Khafre's Pyramid
Date Added: 18th Jan 2021
Site Type: Pyramid / Mastaba
Country: Egypt (Lower Egypt (North))
Visited: Yes on 18th May 2009
Khafre's Pyramid submitted by Thorgrim on 13th Feb 2005. The most awesome experience is to enter the Pyramid of Khafre at Giza. Is it just a coincidence that Giza is located exactly 30 degrees and zero minutes from the equator? (Cairo is 30 degrees 1 minute North) Just think about it - some time before 2,500 BC, the Egyptians of the Old Kingdom placed the Sphinx and the great pyramids exactly one third of the way up from the equator and two thirds of the way down from the north pole. With all that space to go at - it must have been deliberate and pro...
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Great Sphinx
Date Added: 18th Jan 2021
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Egypt (Lower Egypt (North))
Visited: Yes on 18th May 2009. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Great Sphinx submitted by AlexHunger on 26th Mar 2006. Egyptologists generally claim that the Sphinx has the face of Khafre, while others claim the rock formation is much older.
The Egyptian authorities are about to start a refurbishment of the neck, shoulder and breast area, hence the scaffolding.
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Giza Valley Temple
Date Added: 18th Jan 2021
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Egypt (Lower Egypt (North))
Visited: Yes on 18th May 2009. My rating: Ambience 5 Access 4
Giza Valley Temple submitted by AlexHunger on 26th Mar 2006. 4th Dynasty Temple next to Great Sphinx and leading up to Khafra's Pyramid via a causeway.
The core of the temple is limestone, but the inner and outer blocks are Aswan granite. The hypostyle hall has 16 Collumns.
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Menkaure's Pyramid
Date Added: 18th Jan 2021
Site Type: Pyramid / Mastaba
Country: Egypt (Lower Egypt (North))
Visited: Yes on 18th May 2009. My rating: Ambience 5 Access 4
Menkaure's Pyramid submitted by Thorgrim on 13th Feb 2005. The romance and mystery of the Pyramids at Giza. Get there at dawn - this scene will be heaving with tourists and coaches within an hour or two. Go back to our main Khufu's Pyramid page for more on this location.
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Museum of Egyptian Antiquities
Date Added: 18th Jan 2021
Site Type: Museum
Country: Egypt (Lower Egypt (North))
Visited: Yes on 18th May 2009
Museum of Egyptian Antiquities submitted by Andy B on 17th May 2016. Some artifacts repatriated from the UK, part of the Repatriated objects exhibition held in 2015
Photo credit: Riham Mahmoud
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Elephantine Temple of Khnum
Date Added: 18th Jan 2021
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Egypt (Nubia)
Visited: Saw from a distance
Elephantine Temple of Khnum submitted by AlexHunger on 14th Jan 2005. Temple of Khnum
Aswan, Elephantine Island.
N24.08419, E32.88660
Built about 1490 BC during the new kingdom.
Khnum (aka: Chem, Kemu, Khem) was the Ram Headed god of Nile Flooding, and husband of Satet with the same functin who has a temple 100 meters to the north.
The picture shows the massive courtyard which originally had a colonnade. The entrance would have had pylons on either side. This site also survived relatively unscathed until about 1830 when Mohamed Ali leveled the place in o...
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Log Text: Viewed from the Nile
Tombs of the Nobles, Aswan
Date Added: 18th Jan 2021
Site Type: Rock Cut Tomb
Country: Egypt (Upper Egypt (South))
Visited: Saw from a distance on 1st Jan 2009
Tombs of the Nobles, Aswan submitted by Swinside on 21st Nov 2017. One of the pink granite tombs in the Tombs of the Nobles, Aswan
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Log Text: viewed from across the Nile
Aswan Museum, Elephantine Island
Date Added: 18th Jan 2021
Site Type: Museum
Country: Egypt (Upper Egypt (South))
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2009
Aswan Museum, Elephantine Island submitted by Orcinus on 18th Jan 2021. Pharaoh in Aswan Museum, 2009
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Flag Fen Visitors Centre
Date Added: 12th Jan 2021
Site Type: Museum
Country: England (Cambridgeshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 1989. My rating: Ambience 3
Flag Fen Visitors Centre submitted by Andy B on 15th Jan 2005. Reconstructed Bronze Age House at Flag Fen Visitor's Centre
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Arbor Low 1
Date Added: 18th Jan 2021
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Derbyshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 1987
Arbor Low 1 submitted by SueS on 23rd Oct 2011. Aerial photo of the central prt of Arbor Low taken by a camera hanging on the kite line
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Log Text: Visited with the MSC scheme folks from Creswell Crags, 1987
Nine Ladies
Date Added: 12th Jan 2021
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Derbyshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 1987
Nine Ladies submitted by Infinite_Fate on 31st Dec 2005. Looking North one November day showing banking (or, the Ladies' skirts).
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Wigber Low
Date Added: 12th Jan 2021
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Derbyshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 1990. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4
Wigber Low submitted by Stu on 8th Jan 2003. Wigber Low Barrow
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Log Text: I excavated here in 1990 with Sheffield University
Minning Low
Date Added: 18th Jan 2021
Site Type: Round Cairn
Country: England (Derbyshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 1990. My rating: Ambience 4
Minning Low submitted by TerryStaniforth on 26th Apr 2006. View toward Minninglow from the nearby railway embankment.
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Log Text: visited in 1990 with Sheffield University undergrads, whilst excavating Wigber Low
Creswell Crags
Date Added: 18th Jan 2021
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: England (Derbyshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 1987. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4
Creswell Crags submitted by dodomad on 15th Feb 2019. The biggest concentration of protective marks ever found in British caves has been discovered at Creswell Crags in the East Midlands. The caves are home to the only Ice Age Rock art in Britain.
The marks, known as apotropaic marks or witches’ marks, are scribed in the walls and ceilings of the caves to ward off evil spirits. Creswell Crags is a limestone gorge on the Nottinghamshire/ Derbyshire border with history dating back 60,000 years. Enthusiasts, Hayley Clark and Ed Waters from the ...
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Log Text: I was part of the Manpower Services Scheme employed here in 1987-88. I excavated in Pin Hole Cave (1cm spits)
St Lawrence (Eyam)
Date Added: 12th Mar 2021
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Derbyshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Aug 1988
St Lawrence (Eyam) submitted by TimPrevett on 11th Jan 2004. The wonderfully carved Anglian cross in the churchyard of St Lawrence in Eyam. SK 21787639
The cross is a Grade 1 listed Anglian high cross dating probably to the 8th century. There are carvings of plant scrolls and leaves on the shaft. On the upper half of the western face are carvings of figures which appear to represent the Virgin Mary with the child.
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St Lawrence (Eyam)
Date Added: 12th Mar 2021
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Derbyshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st May 1992
St Lawrence (Eyam) submitted by TimPrevett on 11th Jan 2004. The wonderfully carved Anglian cross in the churchyard of St Lawrence in Eyam. SK 21787639
The cross is a Grade 1 listed Anglian high cross dating probably to the 8th century. There are carvings of plant scrolls and leaves on the shaft. On the upper half of the western face are carvings of figures which appear to represent the Virgin Mary with the child.
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Beacon Hill (Leicestershire)
Date Added: 20th Jan 2021
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Leicestershire and Rutland)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2015
Beacon Hill (Leicestershire) submitted by Bladup on 22nd Apr 2013. An outcrop on Beacon hill, A good natural defence on this side for the iron age fort and/or a much older stone axe factory?
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Log Text: Visited frequently 2015-2019
Charnwood Museum
Date Added: 20th Jan 2021
Site Type: Museum
Country: England (Leicestershire and Rutland)
Visited: Yes on 20th May 2017
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Bottesford Cross
Date Added: 17th Jan 2022
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Leicestershire and Rutland)
Visited: Yes on 12th Jan 2022. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 5
Bottesford Cross submitted by Anne T on 19th Mar 2019. Market Cross in Leicestershire and Rutland England. Looking east across the market cross and the remains of the stocks and whipping post, down Grantham Road.
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