As I sat on the sun deck outside my riverboat cabin overlooking the surrounding scene, many of the most fabled attractions of Egypt came into view. The towering Pyramids of Giza were guarded by the world-famous Sphinx, whose face, believed to portray that of a pharaoh, sits on the body of a lion.
I spotted and marveled at some of the more than 100 pyramids dotted about the country. While they are the focus of much-deserved attention, I soon realized that equally impressive monumental temples dedicated to the worship of gods and the commemoration of pharaohs compete with them in size, beauty and wonder….