standing in antiquity

Jerry and Judy Stone are lifetime travellers who have just returned from Egypt. With his permission, I am reprinting the following travelogue that Jerry sent me.
Our Egypt trip was perhaps the single most impressive of all our journeys. We were overwhelmed by the antiquity of the place. Standing in front of the Sphinx with the Cheops Pyramid in the background, the pyramid’s massive size and perfect triangularity seemed to possess a power and force as if it were pushed up from below by an underground god. It seems to suggest that all later architecture was born solely of fanciful human imagination. And to realize that these monuments of the third millenium B.C. stood centuries before our great Western literary tradition began to unfold with the Homeric and Hebrew texts. Even Herodotus, the 5th-century B.C. Greek historian, was describing ancient history when he wrote about Egypt!
Then the boat journey up […]

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