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Photographs of ancient Egyptian Heliopolis

Luxor News Blog (Jane Akshar)

A deliciously forthright pargraph from Jane accompanies a set of excellent photographs of ancient Egyptian artefacts and the Heliopolis obelisk on the above page:

I am really sorry but don’t bother going there. It is a tiny park in the middle of a very insalubrious part of town. You need an extremely reliable taxi driver to get you there. I have no idea of the opening times I had to shout and scream and jump up and down and eventually (after 45 minutes) they let me in on my SCA card. So I have no idea about prices either. The obelisk itself was covered in scaffolding and the other objects in the ‘open air museum’ were few and not particularly good examples. Still I have done it.

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