

The revolution makes a camel man waiting for tourists to buy a ride near panorama point at the Giza pyramids

Idle camels wait for the tour buses near the pyramids of Giza

Cruise boat of tourists makes its way up the Nile at sunrise, between Luxor and the Valley of the Kings

Alabaster carvers relax by murals depicting ancient Egyptian life near the show rooms in El Swellam, Luxor

Boat loads of visitors cross Lake Nasser to reach Philae Temple, which was built on an island in the Nile during the Ptolemaic period

Philae Temple was relocated to this higher site on an adjacent islet after repeated flooding by the Aswan Dam in the early 20th Century

Bas relief of Cleopatra VII with her brother Caesarion and their child on the Temple of Hathor in Dendara

Philae Island temple, in the corridor known as Tiperius Road

Abu Simbel Temple on the west shore of Lake Nasser

Two colossal statues adorn the main entry of Abu Simbel Temple

Morning in the White Desert near Farafra where wind has sculpted lake sediments into strange and beautiful shapes

Blowing sand tends to erode most rapidly near the dune surface, as seen here in the White Desert of Farafra

Late afternoon in the White Desert near Farafra

Morning in the White Desert near Farafra. The White Desert became a National Park in 2002

A village along across the Nile from Aswan retains the ancient style of Nubian architecture

El Qasr, a small village near Dahkla, which is now largely abandoned as the government encourages families to move to modern homes

The east bank of the Nile, looking north from Aswan towards Elephantine Island

Broken obelisk in an archaeological park inside Aswan city

Abandoned passenger barge with no propeller, engine, or wheelhouse, on the west shore of Lake Nasser

Temple of Amum, where Alexander the Great was declared a Pharoe and the Ptolemaic (Greek) era of Egypt began

Banks of flood lights for the nightly sound-and-light program at the pyramids of Giza

The bodies in this cemetery in Aswan are buried so that their heads point towards Mecca.