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Above left: The sacred lake at the innermost part of the Temple of Karnak at Luxor. Above right: Mary with the line of sphinxes at the entrance to the temple.

Above: Some of the huge pillars at the Temple of Karnak, begun about 2000 BC & mostly finished some 700 years later under the Pharoah Seti I. The massive pillars stand almost 140 feet high.

Above, left: Mary is dwarfed by the gigantic statues and, (below left) if it hadn't been damaged, I would be even more so! Above, right: Mary with one of the obelisks at the Temple of Karnak. Below, right: Another of the colossal statues at the Temple of Karnak (note tourist in background at lower left).

Above, left: A row of sphinxes inside the Temple of Karnak; note size of a visiting tourist. Above, right: Another row of enormous statues inside this 3000-year-old temple.

Picture Pages -- Mideast Trip

• Israel -- Tiberias, Zefat & Jerusalem
• Egypt -- Cairo
• Egypt -- The Pyramids and the Sphinx
• Egypt -- Sailing Up the Nile
• Egypt -- Ancient Temples:
  • Part I: Karnak
  • Part II: Luxor
  • Part III: Hatshepsut, Horus, Kom Ombo & Philae
• Egypt -- Galibaya Party!
• Egypt -- Aswan
• Egypt -- Street Scenes

Some things to check on Elmarco's web:

• SYC Senior Girls Soccer home page.
• Highligts of 1998 and 1997 -- Our Christmas letters.
• "The Year the Sickness Came for Christmas" -- an interesting chapter from "My Daughter Said She'd Burn This Book!" by that not-yet-published but (hopefully) soon-to-be world-famous author, L. David Mark.
• "The Wedding! -- Cindy & Israel.