Oct 5th, 2008 at 10:00PM: I'm enjoying the unique perspective of the Pyramids in this photo by Flickr user DS355. Too often when photographers take pictures of these amazing Egyptian structures, they focus exclusively on the Pyramids themselves. What I liked about this shot was the way the Pyramid is shifted to the background in a sort of soft-focus haze. Also interesting is the way this shot plays with perspective, ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Oct 5th, 2008 at 10:00PM: I'm enjoying the unique perspective of the Pyramids in this photo by Flickr user DS355. Too often when photographers take pictures of these amazing Egyptian structures, they focus exclusively on the Pyramids themselves. What I liked about this shot was the way the Pyramid is shifted to the background in a sort of soft-focus haze. Also interesting is the way this shot plays with perspective, ..."No Reservations" season 4, episode 18: Egypt
Aug 28th, 2008 at 8:00AM: Location: This week Tony finds himself in Egypt, home to the Great Pyramids, the Sphinx and plenty of other tourist stereotypes. Egypt is one of the world's great cradles of civilization as well as a crossroads of many cultures (and great cuisine) from all points north, south, east and west. Episode Rating: Three bloody meat cleavers out of five. Bourdain indeed delivers the unexpected when it ...An undiscovered gem: The pyramids of Tikal
Dec 22nd, 2007 at 4:00PM: I talked yesterday about a little known alternative to Machu Picchu. Today, I bring you the Mayan version: the ruins at Tikal in Guatemala. But here's the zinger: they're actually more impressive than the much better known pyramids at Chichen Itza in Mexico. Here's what one American had to say about the place. "I saw the Pyramids [in Egypt] ... This is better, because you can go on top of them, ...King Tut: you just can't get enough!
Oct 24th, 2007 at 5:15AM: Well, I certainly can't. I don't know why, but the whole King Tut deal was one of the very few things that stuck with me in history class. There is something spooky yet exciting about pharaohs and mummies, and King Tut is the 3500-year old mummy of all mummies. Unbound in the 20th Century by an English dude who died shortly after (apparently from the 'curse' of having the balls to open Tut's ...Experts Find Evidence of Giant Pyramid in Bosnia
May 1st, 2006 at 5:09PM: Ever dream of seeing the great pyramids? You
know, traveling to Central America? Or Egypt? Or ... ...Bosnia? From MSNBC.com: Experts in Bosnia have discovered solid evidence that
what appeared to be an odd-shaped hill in the small village of Visoko in Bosnia, is actually a giant pyramid, a third
larger than the Great Pyramid of Giza. If correct, this will be the first ...
