There are guys with huge trays of pita breads balanced on their heads bicycling through traffic with draft animals and cars all packed into 4 lanes of traffic where there should only be 3. It is so clean and orderly in comparison. Nothing like perspective. The following poem captures the glory of ancient Egypt and its surviving monuments. While I never saw the statues that Shelley saw, I drove by it and saw other fantastic temples.
Nothing beside remains.
The lone and level sands stretch far away. Percy Bysshe Shelley. 1792-1822 Sites in order of distance up the Nile from the Mediterranean Sea. Lower Egypt is closest to the Mediterranean, and Upper Egypt is the furthest away from the Mediterranean. The oldest temples are generally in Lower Egypt, with the newer temples being built further and further upstream.