Egypt: High Antiquity
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Egypt is a conundrum, and no one really knows the true history of this desert land with a single vein of water and green. The perceptive observer can only surmise the dark and often tragic events that led into the present. It almost seems as though time and again even more legends are added to the countless myths and lore.
Now, in 2011, this country is at the crossroads, and the difficulties to get really close to its many sites of antiquity are only one sign of the change, and maybe also a foreboding of revelations that may render history books useless.
To me, Egypt is still an empire, albeit a silent one, without imperialistic power. It is an empire of time, and there is a high strangeness beyond the layers of millennia and sublimity. Egypt has been ruled by many gods — their power is still palpable...
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