A Thank You Shout Out To Book Town

Today I want to take the time to thank the people at  Book Town who featured my book,
The Hidden Chamber In The Great Sphinx.

Not only did they put a banner at the top of their social media page, but they also featured the book in the middle of their main home page as well. I could not be more appreciative.

Again, THANK YOU!

If you are interested in meeting up with other authors, writers, or book reviewers, I encourage you to visit them and ask to join.

~Linda Cadose

Is this the missing link?

The missing link is the fossil that would show when humans separated from the apes.

In 2009, researchers claimed that the 47 million year old Darwinius masillae is the missing link.

The nine month old female primate was featured in a History channel documentary.

About Family Illiness

I have been a Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT) for forty years.

Patients who have a devoted spouse or a devoted family recover faster and better than those who do not.

Love is an important factor in recovery.

To quote the song, “Love is a Many Splendored Thing.” 

My Trip to Abu Simbel

The night before we left Luxor for Abu Simbel; I spilled coffee on my leisure suit. Leisure suits were very popular in the ’70s. I washed it out that evening in the hotel room’s bathroom. Twenty minutes later it was completely dry. That illustrates how dry the desert air is.

The following morning we took a bus ride across the desert to Abu Simbel. Ramses II built Abu Simbel. He was called the Sun Pharaoh because he was a great warrior and because he was a great builder. He lived to be 90 years old which was unheard of in his time.

The bus stopped very close to Abu Simbel and we all had a very short walk to the temple The first thing that strikes the visitor is the 65 foot statues of Ramses II. There are two on either side of the entrance. On the right side of Abu Simbel is the Temple of Hathor, the goddess of love.

In the Hathor Temple there are floor to ceiling columns with carvings of Hathor on each face of the columns. When the Aswan Dam was built, engineers knew that it would create Lake Nasser. The new lake would flood Abu Simbel so it became a United Nations project to move Abu Simbel. The U.N. team moved Abu Simbel without destroying its value as an antiquity.

Exciting Recent Finds

*A 33-foot sculpture of Antony &Cleopatra twins born in 40 BC was found by Egyptology Guseppina Capriotti. The twins were named Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene.

*The Abydos Temple, which was called “The Terrace of the Great God” was discovered recently.The temple contained animal mummies and a wooden statue of Hatshepsut. Hatshepsut was the only female Pharoah in Egyptian history.

*Mohamid Ibrahim, Minister of State for Antiquities announced that a deep well had been found near the tomb of King Tutmosis. In the well, he found a sarcophagus belonging to Amun Re, a lecture priest at Karnek Temple and a singer of the god Amun Re.

My Trip to Luxor, Egypt part 2

The night before we left Cairo for Luxor, we were served a special meal, baked pigeons stuffed with rice and herbs. This is considered a delicacy in Egypt. (I added a recipe below just in case you were interested.)

There were two architects on our trip. When the platters were placed in the table, they exclaimed, “Mm,  Mm, Mm, Southern Fried Chicken.”

I replied, “That is not chicken.”

They retorted, “How do you know?”

I replied, “The anatomy is wrong.”

They then asked, “Well, what is it then?”

I responded, “Pigeons, I’ve had them before. They’re delicious.”

Everyone who had the pigeons loved them.

The following morning we were off to Luxor. We took a bus ride across the desert.

The first thing we saw were the Colossi. There is a colossus on either side of the entrance of the Valley of the Kings. They stand 65 feet high.

We drove to the mortuary temple of Queen Hapchetsut the first female pharaoh.

I call her the first women’s libber.

From there , we proceed to King Tut’s Tomb.

When entering King Tut’s Tomb, the visitor walks down a flight of stairs.

At the bottom, there is a room with a open sarcophagus. Inside the sarcophagus, lies the coffin of King Tut and his golden mask.

The coffin is solid gold and, in1976, was worth 16 million dollars. As my readers know, its value as an antiquity is priceless.

There were elaborate paintings on the walls and scenes fro The Book of the Dead.

The Book of the Dead contains spells and is used in a pharaohs funeral.

Next, I shall discuss my trip to Abu Simbel near the Sudan border.

Stuffed Pigeon recipe :

Ingredients:

-          2 pigeons

-          Salted water for boiling

-          2 medium onion

-          3 tbsp butter

-          Salt and pepper

-          ¼ tsp cardamom powder

-          1 cup grits

-          Pigeons’ livers

Directions:

1-      Clean pigeons and spice with salt, pepper and cardamom.

2-      Prepare stuffing by washing grits then place it in a bowl and cover it with cold water. Leave it for an hour.

3-      Drain grits well.

4-      Chop 1 onion and pigeons’ livers into small pieces and add it to the drained grits.

5-      Heat 2 tbsp of butter then add the grits mix to it and stir. Spice with salt and pepper. Leave for ten minutes over low heat.

6-      Stuff the pigeons with grits and sow the openings so the stuffing won’t fall out.

7-      Boil the salted water then add the stuffed pigeons. Lower the heat.

8-      Add the other onion and cover until the pigeons are done.

9-      Drain pigeons off the water and leave it aside until it cools a little.

10-   Heat the rest of the butter and fry all sides of the pigeons.

11-   Serve on chopped parsley. Served with Egyptian Rice and another dish like Molokhia.

Egyptian recipes.net. 

My Trip To Egypt

I was so excited about going to Egypt that I could barely sleep at night in the days before the trip began.

I originally went to Egypt in the summer of 1976, the Bicentennial year.

When we landed in Cairo, our tour guide met us at the airport and accompanied us to our hotel.

The following day we left by bus for the 10 mile trip to Giza, Egypt.

 While on the tour bus, our tour guides asked us about the Bicentennial. One of our guide liked Americans so much that he liked to be called Mario.His real name was Mohammed.

We discovered that Mario and his fellow guides were very amused by we Americans. The Egyptian guides thought it was very funny that we Americans were so excited about being 200 years old.

They laughed saying that Egyptian civilization was 5000 years old.

When we arrived at the Giza Plateau, I was immediately struck by how massive the structures were.

The Great Sphinx stands 66 feet high: the Great Pyramid is 486 feet high.

While we were at the Great Pyramid we climbed the 108 steps to the King’s Chamber.

It was not possible to stand upright in the stone staircase; a person had to stoop.

While there, I took the opportunity to ride a camel. It was fun although it was a bony ride.

From Giza, we traveled south to Luxor which, in ancient times, was called Thebes.

In my next blog, I will write about my travel to King Tut’s tomb.