"From the top of these pyramids, 40 centuries contemplate us"), has seen the ever-steadily increasing flow of visitors collapse over the last three years. Since the so-called Arab Spring took over the streets of Cairo (January 2011), movement followed by the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak (in February 2011), a military coup (in July 2012) and new presidential elections (in the month Past), tourism in Egypt has never been the same.