Hopes for a picturesque descent near the Great Pyramids were dashed by high winds.
In Cairo, the hotel faced the great pyramids, turning its back on the restless activities of the old city.
Egypt has reopened one of its great pyramids as it attempts to revive a tourism industry hit by last year's uprising.
Ludwig was right there with his open wallet and energy for a mapping project in Giza, where archaeologist Mark Lehner is looking for evidence of the civilization that built the Great Pyramids.
Ludwig was right there with his open wallet and energy for a similar mapping project in Giza, where archaeologist Mark Lehner is looking for evidence of the civilization that built the Great Pyramids.
Apparently, American cultural insensitivity was also on display, as Spalding recounts how in Egypt, U.S. ball players used one of the Great Pyramids for a backstop and photographed themselves atop the Sphinx, much to the chagrin of locals.
Her hours-long lecture is a mesmerizing romp of set pieces and extemporaneous patter, jumping from Christopher Columbus, to Egyptian pyramids, to the Great Wall, to Bill Gates.
The Maya ignored the crisis in front of them, instead dancing with great panaches of precious quetzal feathers on pyramids, as if the present would forever hold.
London (CNN) -- Coal slag heaps up to 450-feet high may not seem the obvious candidates to join a list that includes the pyramids of Egypt, the Great Wall of China, and Yellowstone National Park.
More than a decade ago, VW Chairman Ferdinand Piech, grandson of Ferdinand Porsche, commissioned a vanity project to rival the pyramids: to resurrect the great French luxury and racing marque Bugatti, right down to Ettore Bugatti's l'orangerie in Molsheim, in Alsace, France, and build there the greatest sports car of all time, with no compromise.
Causes included the outbreak of peace with Israel, the perception of great things to come (from an economic standpoint it had been downhill since construction of the pyramids) and the fact that millions of Egyptians working abroad were sending home part of their earnings.
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