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Travel Information about Egypt:
All Egypt
Cairo
Abu Simbel
Alexandria
Nile River Valley
Aswan
Luxor
Red Sea and Sinai
Sharm El-Sheikh
Ain Sukhna
Dahab
El Gouna
El Quseir
Hurghada
Makadi Bay
Marsa Alam
Nuweiba
Safaga
Saint Catherine
Soma Bay
Suez
Taba
Taba Heights
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Sphinx and
Temple Ruins - Egypt
The
sphinx itself is carved out of a single piece of stone and is
one of the largest monoblock statues in the world. Much of the
stone used in the construction of the sphinx temple in the
foreground came from digging out the ground around the block of
stone that was to become the sphinx. Some of these blocks weigh
200 tonnes or more.
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