• KP ProjectsFlow Like the Nile: Egypt 2025Traveler
    Ramesses II, of course.
    The original maquette for the cap of the Great Pyramid.Chariots that were in pieces and stacked in the tomb, now assembled.The Tutankhamen funerary mask (taken through the mob)Alabaster boat with ibex heads and widow queen Mutnedjmet.Alabaster lion avatar of the pharaoh.Strappings for the mummy: the crook and the flail.Sacred cow.The Tutankhamen inner coffin.The symbols of the two Egypts: the cobra and the vulture.The outer Tutankhamen coffinEven the afterlife has gaming.Solar boats for boarding to the afterlife.One of the two figures guarding the tomb entrance.Goddess Neith protecting Tut's stomach in the canopic shrine.Hathor undefaced.Akhenaten, "heretic pharaoh" and the world's first monotheist prophet.

    Edifice Rex

    November 6, 2025 in Egypt ⋅ ☀️ 82 °F

    The Grand Egyptian Museum, which we visited opening week, is Egypt’s biggest project since the Aswan Dam, and, between avid tourists and proud citizens, already has Louvre-level crowds. Our guide Yasser was agog: “Never in my life have I seen so many of my countrymen in one place at one time.” We were all a little overwhelmed and buffeted, but the GEM is not overblown. Its enormous triangular windows frame views of the Pyramids and its signage proclaims “The History of the Future.” With Tutankhamen’s golden radiance now a treasured memory
    artifact, we wished Misr and its people peace, joy, and farewell.    Read more