Travel in Egypt
Gianluca Frinchillucci
Cairo, Cairo, November 17, 2009
I've been to Egypt four times and each time I appreciate more and more. I was amazed at the sight of the library of the monastery of St. Catherine, I ascended the holy mountain of Sinai where, according tradition Moses received the Tablets of the Law of God, drank tea with the Bedouins, nestled in the beautiful waters of the Red Sea, which came in the tombs of the Valley of Kings and walked between the columns of the temple of Karnak in Luxura ... but I want to know the Cairo, the pyramids come and see the treasures of Tutankhamen in the Egyptian Museum and visit the Italian shrine of El Alamein.
In my little village was founded by a Comboni missionary who now lives in Cairo, Father Giuseppe Cruciani. We've known ever since he was a friend of my father. He invites me to join him in Cairo to meet his missionary reality.
When Cairo has now come to the evening and go through a chaotic city. We reach the headquarters of the Comboni Missionaries, Father Giuseppe Cruciani has seventy-three, was born at Sant'Angelo in Pontano, my country, and was a friend of my father. He spent most of his life in Sudan has a degree in biology in 1991 and is in Cairo. His house is just ten minutes walk from the Cairo Museum.
curious Among the many memories I have of him as a child, any one is related to his passion for electronics: Sony used a radio-wave pattern which takes the stations around the world. I was fascinated. Among the many memories of our meetings just mentioned visti, c’è stato anche questo e padre Giuseppe ha preso una vecchia scatola e me l’ha data: conteneva la radio che avevo sognato in gioventù. “Ormai è superata, usiamo il cellulare per tutto”, mi ha detto. Per me rimane uno degli oggetti magici della mia adolescenza: essere collegati con tutto il mondo.
Padre Giuseppe assiste una comunità di profughi sudanesi sfuggiti ai massacri nella loro terra. Stiamo un po’ con loro e coinvolgiamo i bambini della scuola comboniana nel nostro scambio di disegni “Amici dal mondo”. Visitiamo anche le suore di Madre Teresa che assistono orfani e anziani in uno dei quartieri più poveri del Cairo.
With Father Joseph also visited the old part of Cairo, including the well of Moses next to the synagogue and the church that stands in the place where tradition did Mary and Joseph with the baby Jesus
arrange a visit to the shrine of El Alamein military where lie buried the paratroopers of the Folgore, float makers of Littorio and air, the soldiers of Pavia and young Libyans in the classified files of the Italian army. The latter buried next to a beautiful mosque. The Battle of El Alamein was compared to that of many of Thermopylae in August 19 480 to . C.
We pay homage to the graves of the fallen leaves and Laura a very moving message on the visitor log.
broken down and the road is a plaque: "He missed the chance no value." Italian troops arrived in 111 km from Alexandria. We reach the famous city to visit the harbor area where the lighthouse stood.
arrived in Cairo very late and we fall asleep talking about Tutankhamen. The next day we start with a guide to the pyramids found by his father Joseph. His name is Peter , Italianate his name. He has worked in business with a gentleman of Bari and knows a few words of Italian. It is very nice and told us in English a couple of jokes about policemen.
went with him to the discovery of Pharaonic Cairo.
The first step is to Saqqara, the necropolis of the city of Memphis . The site is huge and we decided to focus the visit on only a few elements. The first stop is a visit outside of the large stepped pyramid of Zoser . It was built in 2800 to . C. and reaches a height of 62 meters .
L’architetto Imhotep che l’ha costruita, ebbe la rivoluzionaria intuizione di rompere con la tradizione, infatti, fino a quel momento le tombe erano sotterranee costruite con mattoni di fango. La sua straordinaria capacità di lavorare la pietra gli permise di creare la più grande struttura in materiale lapideo.
After a narrow corridor on the left is the burial chamber, sacked in the past, with the sarcophagus of basalt. In the ceiling are shown at the stars e le pareti sono coperte di geroglifici.
Scatto alcune fotografie stupende dell’interno che stridono un po’ con la vista esterna della piramide depredata nell’antichità. La piramide si Teti è stata scoperta dall’archeologo francese Mariette nel 1850 e in origine era a gradoni colmati e rivestiti di calcare.
Ripartiamo dopo la visita per raggiungere le tre piramidi più famose: quelle di Giza .
In Egitto, alla sinistra del corso del Nilo ci sono circa settanta piramidi che ci accompagnano da 4500 anni. Le più famose sono le tre dei faraoni Cheope , Chefren e Micerino , risalenti alla IV dinastia (2700-2500 ca. a.C.), l’unica delle sette meraviglie del mondo antico giunta fino ai giorni nostri.
Nei loro pressi sorgono la Sfinge , alcune piramidi minori e diverse tombe di funzionari. Lo spettacolo è imponente. Camminiamo da una piccola altura e raggiungiamo le piramidi attraversando un breve tratto di deserto. Entriamo nella piramide più grande, quella di Cheope.
Non mi lascio andare ad espressioni del tipo “non è terrestre”, ma sento dentro di me a strong spiritual. The large burial chamber inside the pyramid is a perfect work of engineering.
Inside, a group of young Westerners, he is practicing meditation.
probably the Pharaoh has never rested in the room and then what is it worth? How was it possible to create something so perfect? What knowledge did they have? As they moved the boulders. Millions of boulders weighing several tons each.
In Italy, just before leaving I contacted the surveyor Civitanova, Elio Diomede, the man who ha elaborato una teoria rivoluzionaria che potrebbe spiegare come sono state costruite le piramidi, e la sua non è un’illuminazione extraterrestre, ma solo buon senso e tanta genialità. Lui ha pensato ad una particolare slitta in legno e a un sistema di trasporto basato su piccoli assi in legno. Con il suo sistema pochi uomini possono spostare pesi enormi.
Diomedi ha ipotizzato l’uso di rotaie in legno accuratamente ingrassate con grasso animale dove sopra scivola una slitta con il masso da trainare.
Elio mi mette in contatto con M. S. , un archeologo egiziano che lavora al Museo egizio and works with Awassa Zahi, the most famous Egyptian archaeologist, the new Indiana Jones.
Su indicazione di M. visito la stanza n. 79, dove c’è appeso alla parete un’anonima slitta in legno, numero di catalogo 5460. Il sogno degli archeologi egiziani e sperimentare the use of the slide according to the theory of Elio Diomedi .
visit the Egyptian Museum, I produce the Stendhal syndrome. I have tears in his eyes and senses confused. MS waiting for me sitting outside the entrance to the museum. I try many employees, he solves all the duties and tells us about his Egypt.
"Two-thirds of Egyptian archaeological material is still to be discovered," says Sadek, and continues: "prof. Awassa is collaborating with a law that proposes life imprisonment for tomb robbers. Around the pyramids of Giza there are still many things to trovare ma il prof. Awass ha il sogno di scoprire la vera camera sepolcrale della grande piramide, probabilmente ancora intatta nascosta da muri molto spessi. Con un piccolo robot è entrato in un cunicolo e ha trovato una porta sigillata, ora deve capire come entrare senza far crollare tutto.”
Parliamo di e della Valle dei Re : “mancano alcune tombe di faraoni all’appello. Il professore è convinto che ne troverà una, prima o poi, saccheggiata o intatta, comunque ancora non scoperta”.
Gli racconto della mia recente visita con la famiglia alla Valla dei Re e della passione di my son for the Egyptian and the tomb of Tutankhamen . My son a few days ago was enchanted by a documentary on the prof. Awassa and the tomb of the boy pharaoh, literally fascinated. Is intrigued by something.
will tell the prof. Awassa your child and try to get you when you return. So your child will have a picture with him.
I leave the museum with my friends and go to the mission. No one speaks, we all look back and absorbed the beautiful encounter that we have done and seen objects. I recall the phrase that heads on the official website prof. Awassa : "for me, archeology, is not a just a job. It combines Everything That I Could want-imagination, intellect, action and adventure. "
I think back to the archaeological sites I have visited around the world that I participated in the excavations and our recent expedition in the Andes of Peru in search of the lost city of Chicu and I can not make my the words of the professor. In particular, I can not make a comparison with the extraordinary discovery of the tomb of Sipan in 1987 in Peru. In that year, the Peruvian archaeologist Walter Alva discovered an intact tomb of a Moche king, the largest pre-Columbian archaeological discoveries. I spoke at length with Alva and I spent so much time looking at the findings of el Sipan tomb. I noticed in the words of Susan Alva , the talented archeologist wife of Walter, the same passion and the same faith that the archaeologists of the Egyptian museum. I am reminded of a phrase from the film Indiana Jones : "Archaeology is our religion."
is true, there is no action in our research, intellect, adventure, but also a very strong spiritual charge that leads us to believe what we do like a religion, ignoring a world of pure scientism that no longer wants to hear about romance and dreams, but of realism and coolness.
So my search continues behind the myths of the past, knowing that I'll never get to the end but my path will take me back even in the heart of Egypt, and who knows maybe one day to imitate the great archaeologists their findings in the past.
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