Ahmed Shawki Museum is in recognition of the great Poet-Laureate Ahmed Shawki, which houses a wide collection of more than 713 manuscripts and drafts, a collection of oil paintings, antique objects and photographs of the poet and his family. Traditionally, a museum is known to be a place where objects of antique and historical nature are displayed. However, the...
Nubian Museum | Ankh | The area of Egypt we now call Nubia follows the River Nile from Aswan, 350km south to the town of Dabba, near the Fourth Cataract and the Sudanese border. It is thought that the name Nubia may be derived from the ancient Egyptian word for gold, ‘nbu’, as it was from this land that Egypt obtained most of its rich source of gold and...
Temple of Hathor | Ankh | The large temple complex that dominates the site of Dendara was one of the principal cult centers of the goddess Hathor. It contains a large number of structures from different periods of Egyptian history, but most prominent today is the Greco-Roman Temple of Hathor, which was largely constructed between 54 and 29 BC. Visitors can wander the...
The museum of Islamic art in Cairo is truly a wonderful reservoir of Islamic antiquities. It has a vast supplement of about 10200 artifacts that one cannot explore in a single day. The museum displays arts from the different Islamic eras that Egypt passed through including the Fatimid, Turkish and Persian periods. Museum Of Islamic Art The Present Museum opened at...
Dahshur Pyramids | Ankh | The pyramid field of Dahshur lies about 10 km south of Saqqara. The Pyramids here include the famed Bent and Red Pyramids built by the 4th Dynasty king Senefru (father of Khufu, builder of the Great Pyramid), As well as the “White Pyramid” of Amenemhat II, the pyramid of Senwosret II, and the “Black Pyramid,” built...
Valley of the Kings | Ankh | Nestled in the cliffs on the west bank of the Nile at Luxor, the isolated Valley of the Kings is home to the tombs of the great pharaohs of the New Kingdom (1550 – 1070 BC). They are hidden within a wadi (or valley) formed over millennia by rainfall and water runoff. The first known pharaoh known for certin to have built a tomb within the...
Karnak Temple , located on the East Bank at Thebes Luxor, is one of Egypt’s largest surviving temple precincts. Founded in the Middle Kingdom, it had become Egypt’s principal religious center by the New Kingdom. Karnak was devoted primarily to the god Amun, a local Theban god joined with the sun god Re to become king of the Egyptian pantheon. Kings from the Middle...
Hatshepsut Temple | Deir El Bahari | Ankh | The site of Deir El Bahari is located on the western bank of the Nile almost directly opposite Karnak Temple in Luxor. Sacred to the goddess Hathor, this bay of cliffs was chosen by Mentuhotep II, the king who reunited Egypt after the chaos of the Second Intermediate Period, as the site of his mortuary temple and tomb. At...
The site of Edfu contains the most complete and best-preserved temple in Egypt, the Ptolemaic Temple of Horus, or Edfu Temple This was constructed between 237 BC and 57 BC on top of the remains of earlier temples. The reliefs that cover the walls, columns, and doorways of the temple constitute an extremely important source of information about ancient Egyptian...