But during the late summer and early autumn months, during the annual flooding of the fields with water from the annual innundation of the Nile ... the Sun temples, other pyramids.

Of all the great ancient civilizations, Egypt is one that remains the most shrouded in mystery. Although experts have been studying life in Egypt for years, there is still so much that is unknown.

It was near Heliopolis, basis of the cult of the sun god Re ... in the Egyptian calendar suggest the pyramids were built year-round and not just when the Nile was in flood. Giza pyramids 19th ...

Working around to the right, you can see, to the north, the Great Pyramid of Khufu; to the east, the plateau drops down to the Nile, with Cairo beyond; and to the south, the Menkaure Pyramid and ...

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videoBuilding the pyramids - part 2 of 5 In this reconstruction, Nakht and Deba take a boat up the River Nile with other slave ... believed in a God of the Sun who could be reborn in the afterlife.

Out of this ocean sprang the first mound of earth, the Sun God ... take a boat up the River Nile with other slave workers to start work on the building of the pyramid. Building the pyramids ...

Cruising leisurely down the Nile River is one of the most popular ... which is very affordable, and see the pyramids in Giza and the spectacular museums, but then hop a plane to Luxor and take ...