Egypt discovery tours and Nile cruise from Luxor to Aswan. Visit Cairo the most attractive city in the world. It is a world in itself, a museum of all the ages, cultures and historical events.
Egypt Discovery Tours
This is a super tour package that covers many cities and most of Egypt’s monuments. Luxor was the capital of ancient Egypt for many centuries so it has the most of historical sites of Egypt.
Karnak temple, Luxor
Aptly called Ipet‑Sut ‘The Most Select of Places’ by the ancient Egyptians, Karnak was one of the most important sites of all. Located on the east bank of Thebes (modern Luxor), Upper Egypt, it is the site of many temples and chapels, and it was in the Great Temple of Amun that the cult of the god Amun of Thebes was conducted. As such, it was extremely wealthy and its priesthood held great political power.
Valley of the kings, Luxor
The site for this royal burial ground was selected carefully. Its location on specifically the west side of the Nile is significant as well. Because the sun god set (died) in the western horizon in order to be reborn, rejuvenated, in the eastern horizon, the west thus came to have funerary associations. Ancient Egyptian cemeteries were generally situated on the west bank of the Nile for this reason.
Aswan
Aswan, called Sunn by the ancient Egyptians, is one of the most important cities in the south of Egypt, and acted as its southern gateway throughout history. As necessary stop for all traders and merchants coming from Nubia through the Nile, it was the link between Egypt and Africa. Aswan is the site of many archaeological sites and important landmarks such as the island of Elephantine, the ancient Egyptian granite quarries including the Unfinished Obelisk, the Coptic monastery of St Simeon, and the Nubian Museum.
Visit Aswan city and enjoy the pure beauty of Egypt by exploring Philae temple and the Nile in the south of Upper Egypt.
The temple of Isis was one of the last ancient Egyptian temples to remain active, as it continued to function until the reign of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (527–565 AD), who ordered the foreclosure of all pagan temples. It is here that a priest of Isis named Esmet-Akhom carved the very last dated hieroglyphic inscription, which dates to the late 4th century AD (394 AD). The temple was converted into a Christian church and many inscriptions were deliberately destroyed.
In this full package all the items are well-chosen. Egypt discovery tours includes the new capital of Egypt and Thebes of ancient Egypt.
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