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Somali Discovering His Roots In Egypt

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Meet Mahad Ibrahim, a third year Somali-born doctoral student in the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California Berkeley. He discovers entire temples in Upper Egypt full with rooms and reliefs dedicated to to ancient Somali Land of Punt.

 

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w/ Sadd El-Din our Nubian guide

 

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Desert at the edge of the nile

 

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resting before leaving philae

 

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cruise ships line up, about 250 on the river

 

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ver while travelling between kom ombo and esna

 

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reliefs of the expedition to the land of punt

 

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an old school puntlander

 

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the room with the story of the land of punt

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the reliefs back in the day were in full color, remenants of the paintings on the ceiling

 

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another example of the colors that would have been found everywhere

 

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hapushet temple, posing pharaonic style

 

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valley of the kings, notice the land

 

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fayiza helping me take a pic of the saidi dude using the piece of an oblesik as a bench

 

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me among the main hall pillars

 

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me being bad again, and paying baksheesh to climb to the roof of another spot in Karnak

 

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sunset at luxor, my last taste of fresh air as we head back to Cairo

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