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This is an ongoing page for Dean to share his research on the places we visit and the people we encounter. Egypt Without water there would be no life. Without The Nile River there would be no Egypt....

By the time we got to the catacombs, the kids were already getting the idea that Alexandria sat at the crossroads of three great civilizations, Egyptian, Greek and Roman. The Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa...

Kom el Dikka sounded familiar because it is also the name of the Agri-lodge where we booked many of our activities when we stayed in Tunis Village in the Fayoum Oasis. I was surprised to see the same name...

When Dina told us about the Graeco-Roman Museum, we were eager to visit because it would provide the perfect segway from our exploration of Ancient Egypt to the next stop on our trip, Greece. We didn’t...

The Citadel of Qaitbay was built from 1477 to 1479 by the Mamluk Sultan QaitBay to defend Alexandria from the Crusaders. It was built on the site of the famed Lighthouse of Alexandria, which was already...