We went camping in the desert during the recent Eid holiday. Ok... we stopped at these Roman ruins close to the lake in Fayoum... and just to give you an idea of how high these walls were... you can open the pick on the right (ok... maybe it's on the bottom now...) and see the "speck" there (5 ft 6) ... just to give the wall height some perspective. I'm gonna' guess the walls were about 40 ft high. It's really amazing that this place was made out of mud bricks... and the Roman's haven't been in Egypt for quite some time now... right in front of this old outpost is part of a Roman road... of course it looks like it goes straight to the lake.
We went camping in the desert during the recent Eid holiday. Ok... we stopped at these Roman ruins close to the lake in Fayoum... and just to give you an idea of how high these walls were... you can open the pick on the right (ok... maybe it's on the bottom now...) and see the "speck" there (5 ft 6) ... just to give the wall height some perspective. I'm gonna' guess the walls were about 40 ft high. It's really amazing that this place was made out of mud bricks... and the Roman's haven't been in Egypt for quite some time now... right in front of this old outpost is part of a Roman road... of course it looks like it goes straight to the lake.
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