We saw the pyramids and the sphinx in person. They are amazing. The climate? Horrible. They were, without doubt, truly an amazing culture, but they didn't continue on forever. By the end of the B.C. era they had been replaced by Arabs. Arabs AIN'T no Egyptians.
TODAY, Egypt is Arab. We loved our two visits there while we were living and working in the middle east. The Egyptians, at the time, really LIKED Americans. I was so used to the world view, that Americans suck, that I enjoyed being where we were liked.
I have nothing but good things to say about Egypt. It's a shame that it's Arab now and turning to s*** something less that it used to be. Oh well, nothing's perfect.
I’ve heard the same from most people who traveled there. A former coworker went there with her husband on their honeymoon (they made a weeks-long trip throughout the Holy Land and Egypt) in the late 1970s I think it was. She got all banged up in the bazaar in Cairo or other market area because the burkah-clad Egyptian beeotches would kick her or step on her feet because she was going around the way that women from actual civilizations go around.
That horrible mass-murder of tourists at Luxor was carried out by typical jihadi; the locals got very pissed off by that, and chased down the shooters, and beat the living hell out of at least one of them. I think that’s how all of them were apprehended.
At one time, that whole area was a rain forest, and it has been suggested that is when the Sphyx was built....