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1000places > CAIRO - In the Museum's courtyard rested the top of an obelisk that became separated from its lower section sometime in antiquity.
1000places > CAIRO - Touring the gardens of the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities, we came upon this carving. Could these be stone portraits of the same person? Or brothers, perhaps? Or fathers and sons? Or maybe this was just a block of granite that ancient apprentice sculptors used to practice carving faces.
1000places > CAIRO - An ancient and very well-presereved sculpture outside the museum displayed amazing colors in the stone.
1000places > CAIRO - The lotus flower - today's water lilly - frequently appeared in the writings and drawings of ancient Egypt, so it wasn't unusual to find the rare Egyptian blue water lilly growing in one of the fountains at the Egyptian Antiquities Museum.
1000places > CAIRO - Our next day began with a trip to one of the great museums of the world &#8211; Cairo&#8217;s Museum of Egyptian Antiquities. Sitting in the shadows of Cairo's modern downtown, the elegant coral-pink and copper-domed museum was built in 1900 (the museum has existed since 1835). Its 50 galleries trace 3000 years of Egypt&#8217;s history from the Old Kingdom to the Greek-Roman era, but photographs of the interior exhibits were not allowed.
1000places > CAIRO - Another carving in the garden of the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities displayed an intriquing triad of figures. We wished we had more time to inquire about the ancient symbolism of the figures, especially the lion/dog/human(?) figure on the right (it could have been a statue of Menhit, a lion-headed female deity that, legend says, led ancient Egyptian armies into battles).
1000places > SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA - In the central part of the city we found the Museo de Oro - the Gold Museum - which contained the largest collection of pre-Columbian gold jewelry in Central America (but photographs inside were not allowed).
1000places > SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA - One of the elaborately carved metates that date back to AD 500. The more ornate metates were not just for grinding corn but were often buried with nobles, presumably to assist them make tortillas in the afterlife.
1000places > SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA - One of the pre-Columbian sculptures in Costa Rica's National Museum.
CAIRO - In the Museum's courtyard rested the top of an obelisk that became separated from its lower section sometime in antiquity.

1000places > CAIRO - In the Museum's courtyard rested the top of an obelisk that became separated from its lower section sometime in antiquity.
CAIRO - In the Museum's courtyard rested the top of an obelisk that became separated from its lower section sometime in antiquity.

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