Pyramids Tour

I signed up for an all day tour of Cairo museum, Giza and Memphis. My tour guide Gabriel was knowledgeable. You really do need a guide to help with the understanding of everything you see on the tour. 
The first stop was the city of Memphis with the huge statue of Ramsey II. Here he was found on his back in mud and water, 38 feet long and 83 tons. I thought of the Shelley poem for dust we are and dust we shall return!

I met a traveler from an antique land

Who said: “Two vast and trunk-less legs of stone

Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand,

Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,

And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,

The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:

And on the pedestal these words appear:

‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare

The lone and level sands stretch far away.”