you enter a recreation of the Great Pyramid, and hike up the exact great hall into an identical Queen’s chamber only to use a robot — a real robot, known as Upuaut II — that had been created and used by Rudolph Gantenbrink.  In real life, Gantenbrink and his team, who searched out answers to Cairo’s mysteries, were kicked out of the Great Pyramid and their robot research was terminated.  You pick up where these men had truly been cut off...

[More]  Adventure Gamers, 06-01-2005, via ArchNews.

The Greek letters on the wide, Roman-style gate you cross driving northwest from Cairo immediately tell you this city is unlike others in Egypt. Built by Alexander the Great in 332 B.C., this port on the Nile's Delta may show influences of the glory of ancient Egypt, but its look is all Mediterranean.

Take a ride on the Corniche, the wide boulevard that envelops its crest-shaped East Harbor.  Look at the clear blue sky reflected on the aquamarine beaches and stop for coffee and pastry at one of the boulevard's many patisseries, and you'll imagine yourself in Naples or Marseille.  Heck, with its rundown buildings, it even resembles Havana's famed seawall...

[More]  The Miami Herald, Florida, USA, Jan. 09, 2005, via Explorator.