There are some truly extraordinary tourist attractions dotted around Aswan. Many tourists visiting Aswan come to marvel at the High Dam, which has become somewhat of a local attraction in its own right. The Aswan Dam is an embankment dam situated across the Nile River in Aswan. The dam, known as Sad el Aali in...Read More
With its magnificent views of the Nile and its distinctive historical sites, many tourists who spend their holidays in Egypt pay Aswan a visit. With a population of around 1 million people, Aswan has always grabbed the attention of many visitors to Egypt. Aswan is located around 920 kilometers to the South of Cairo, 229...Read More
The Valley of the Kings was the royal cemetery for 62 Pharaohs, and is located on the west bank at Luxor. The Egyptian belief that “To speak the name of the dead is to make him live again” is certainly carried out in the building of the tombs. It is called Valley of the Gates...Read More
It is one of the most important and greatest temples in Luxor, where it combines the greatness of architecture and the charm of civilization The city includes a number of distinct pharaonic monuments, the most important of which is the Temple of Ramses III, known in the Pharaonic civilization as “the palace of millions of...Read More
Nile River Map Location It runs through the ten countries of Sudan, South Sudan, Burundi, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda and Egypt. Nile River in Ancient Egypt The Nile River has huge significance in regards to Ancient Egypt. Most of Ancient Egypt’s historical sites are located along the banks of...Read More
One of the most famous temples in Egypt and the temple is located in the governorate of Sohag The temple is considered one of the most important and largest temples of the worship of the god Osiris, the temple is characterized by many visible and colorful inscriptions that tell of the god Osiris, which still...Read More
It is, in fact, one of its most astonishing, if not singularly the best, outdoor museum anywhere on the planet and offers visitors the chance of seeing almost a third of all the ancient antiquities known to man in just a few kilometers. Although the vast majority of visitors to Luxor still tend to stay...Read More
It is said that Luxor hosts more than one quarter of all the antiquities of the world. This was why perhaps the Arabs, when they came to Egypt during the 7th century named the city Luxor, or the city with numerous palaces and historical sites. Ancient Thebes, or today Luxor was established during the 26th...Read More
The west bank of Luxor had been the site of royal burials since around 2100 BC, but it was the pharaohs of the New Kingdom period (1550–1069 BC) who chose this isolated valley dominated by the pyramid-shaped mountain peak of Al Qurn (The Horn). Once called the Great Necropolis of Millions of Years of Pharaoh,...Read More
In the 7th century AD it was named after a Coptic monastery, known as the “Northern monastery”, today it is known as the Temple of Deir El-Bahri, which means in Arabic, the “Temple of the Northern monastery”. This lovely structure is found in a steep half-circle of cliffs on the west bank of the Nile...Read More
