You might go to the dictionary. That might work. Most likely though you won't actually find a definition for "really cool," and even if you did it will probably lack experience and be a little dry.
Try looking a little further down the road. Yeah, over there. About one tram ride, a little walking, and then a microbus ride, and then some more walking through dirt streets strewn with litter, shops of all sorts, the only people of which sitting out front are men with hookahs and moustaches, children dodging cars, sheep, chickens, peoples eyes following you because you just can't hide your foreign-ness and your in a group, which always draws more attention (albeit this one was only a total of six, two of which were Egyptians), being led by a 10 year old not in his school uniform. And then your there.
Roman tombs. 1800 years old in the heart of a backwater neighborhood in Alexandria, Egypt.
A place which was discovered by accident [is there really such a thing?] and was once 20 meters buried underneath the surface of the earth. The underground tombs are probably another good 30 meters underneath the current soil surface. You can't really take pictures there so I'm kind of at a loss to be able to explain it fully. But the artwork and the carvings on the walls and the depictions of their gods and the tombs themselves and the process by which they transported the corpses down...
And then you emerge back to the top and think, "I'm standing in the midst of history. What a different [and at the same time, the same] world it was back then."
One thing is for sure though, if we had those same Roman architects and masons and carpenters working to build our housing structures and buildings these days, the quality of construction would be much higher. The process might be slower, but the end product would be amazing and last at least 1800 years. Think about that the next time you have to tape and float your sheet rock!
p.s. - click here if you want to read up a little more on the catacombs.
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