Eric was keen to experience the joy of flight which evolution had denied him. Eventually he decided to take advantage of a once in a lifetime opportunity to fly over the Theban hills in a hot air balloon, although he was quite concerned that the ground was such a long way away.

Never mind, Eric was quite safe as long as no one thought it would be funny to hold him out over the edge of the basket.

From the Balloon Eric was amazed by how much building the Ancient Egyptians had done. Everywhere there were ruins of really big temples and lots of little holes dug into the rocky hillsides.

These holes are actually the entrances to the tombs where the Egyptians buried their dead.