They landed with a thump and a bang.
'Ouch!' cried Katie, as she banged her head.
'Where are we?' asked Lauren.
'Look over there. What's that?' asked Steve.
'It's a Pyramid!' said Boff. 'We studied them at school in history.'
'Then we must be in Egypt!' said Steve.
'Yes, look ... there are five of them … and they are building another one over there!'
'But they built the Pyramids more than 2000 years ago!' said Lauren.
'Wow! Let's go and look at that one! There's a door to the inside. Come on!' said Steve.

They walked across a sandy desert area and stood in front of an enormous Pyramid. They went in and saw amazing coloured paintings on the walls. There were pictures of people hunting animals, pictures of food and pictures of rich people wearing fantastic gold jewellery. There was also strange writing on the walls.
'This must be a tomb,' said Steve.

Suddenly they heard a voice.
'Who are you?' it boomed.
They froze with fear and turned around. They saw a tall, thin boy with long black hair. He was wearing a white cloth like a skirt, leather sandals and an amazing bead necklace.
'We are travellers,' said Boff, 'but I think we are lost. Who are you?'
'My name is Ramses,' the boy replied. 'Come. I will show you my house.'

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