My Way Is The Highway

Sunil Shinde was here ...

The timeless desire to leave ones stamp on another artisan's work ...

Here is a 150 year old engraving left on the beautiful rocks at Karnak

And at Abu Simbel (Bottom right corner of the image.. on Ramses forearm)

600 AD Roman grafitti in the temple of Philae

1799 graffiti left by the French army

And Coptic graffiti :) 2000 year old in the temple of Karnak

And probably the most famous (and deplorable) of them all .. by Belzoni in Khafre's pyramid

I found a web-site Graffito Graffiti  dedicated entirely to graffiti's on the Egyptian and Sudanese monuments.

The Knows of Sphinx

	Head of the Great Sphinx by Luigi Mayer (1755- 1803), a watercolourist and draughtsman produced the monumental volumes The Holy Land (1842) and Views in ancient Egypt and Nubia (1846). More Information
	A Profile of the Colossal Head of the Sphinx by Frederik Ludwig Norden (1708-1742) from the book Voyage d'Egypte et de Nubie
	Norden again... Norden was the first illustrator to draw the Sphinx without the nose ...
	Napoleon and the Sphinx by Jean-Leon Gerome (1834 - 1904)
	La description de l'Egypte by Edgar Cayce
	View of the head of the Great Sphinx and the second Pyramid by Louis-Francoi Cassas (1756-1827)
	Approach of the Simoon by David Roberts (1796 to 1864) In this picture, David take a bit of poetic liberty is placing the sun on the wrong side. David's other paintings of Egypt and Nubia
	Le Sphinx, et les pyramides de Mykerinos, Kheops et Chephren by Craplet Louis Amable(1822-1867)
	The duality of the Sphinx by Sunil Shinde (1972- )

Were ancient Egyptians surgeons?

This is the photograph of a famous relief found on the rear wall of the temple of Sobek in Kom Ombo. While it is widely believed that they could as well be instruments of cult used for rituals, Egypt does not cease to impress and surprise.

I can see forceps, tongs, needles ...

It is also said that Imhotep was as proficient a surgeon as an architect he was ...