CAIRO It will house the largest collection of Tutankhaman relics ever displayed, and is expected to attract 5 million visitors a year. It’s been a while since news first broke on Egypt’s much anticipated new antiquities museum: the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), which will...
EGYPT’S ANTIQUITIES MINISTER, 40 AMBASSADORS INAUGURATE RESTORED SENEFRU’S BENT PYRAMID IN DAHSHUR The Senefru Bent Pyramid Despite the sweltering heatwave gripping Cairo, journalists and media outlets flocked to Dahshur Necropolis in Giza to join Egypt’s Minister of Antiquities Khaled El-Enany and foreign and African...
Tourist Attractions in Egypt Home of the ancient Pharaohs, Egypt is a dazzling destination of temples and tombs that wow all who visit. It’s not all historic treasures, though. With vast tracts of desert, superb scuba diving, and the famed Nile River, there’s something...
‘It is the biggest ‘saff’ tomb to be ever discovered in the Theban necropolis,’ said a senior official The discovery of a new saff tomb in the Draa Abul Naga necropolis on the West Bank of Luxor was announced by Egyptian officials on Thursday....
Old Kingdom tombs discovered on Egypt’s Giza Plateau .. A member of the Egyptian Archaeological Mission inspects part of an Old Kingdom cemetery during excavations carried out at the south-eastern side of Giza Plateau. Despite the current heat wave in Egypt, local and international...
65th Anniversary of the Khufu Ship Discovery, On this day in 1954, one of the oldest and largest boats on earth was found buried near Egypt’s biggest pyramid. Today’s Doodle celebrates the discovery of the Khufu Ship, which has survived more than 4,600 years,...
The ancient Egyptians were there. From the area around Marsa Alam they mined gold and emeralds . The road from Marsa Alam to Edfu, in the Nile Valley, was built in the ancient times by king Ptolemy II . Mining phosphate is main industry...
The Western Desert of Egypt covers about 700,000 sq km, which represents tow thirds of Egypt’s land.The Western Desert was once a savannah, rich with wildlife and nomadic settlements.Gradual climate change le to desertfication and thurned this vast area into the arid expanse seen...
Baharyia is one of the more fetching of the desert circuit oases. Surrounded on all sides by towering ridges, much of the osais floor is covered by verdant plantations of date palms and pockmarked with dozens of refreshing springs.During the Pharaonic era, the oasis...
Here, not for the first time, you fell deeply in love with the landscape ….you longed to reach out to reach out and stroke the great gaunt flanks of the mountain falling away into bewildering foot-hills and plains of dazzling sand … it’s...
St Katherine’s MonasteryThis ancient monastery traces its founding to about AD 330, when the Byzantine empress Helena had a small chapel and a fortified refuge for local hermits built beside what was believed to be the burning bush from which god spoke to Moses.Today...
The ancient city of Petra one of the New Seven Wonders of the WorldThe ancient city of Petra is one of the New Seven Wonders of the World. Petra is often called the Rose – Red City, but even this hardly does justice to...
Siwa Oasis located 560km from Cairo , is in a deep depression that reaches below sea level18 m. All over this old, historical oasis, you find natural wells where you can spot the bubbles coming up from15 to 20 meters underneath you, many of...
Al-Quseir is an approximately 5000 years old Egyptian city lying along the Red Sea. Its ancient name was Leucus Limen. Al-Quseir was where Queen Hatshipsut set off from on an expedition to the mystical African land of Punt, as depicted in the reliefs in...
Alexandria, the pearl of the Mediterranean. Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in 332, while he was marching along the Mediterranean coast; he stopped by a fishermen village called Rhakotis where he decided to build a new capital for Egypt, which has been named after...
The city of Hurghada was founded in the early 20th century. Until a few years ago it was a small fishing village but since the 1980s has been continually enlarged by Egyptian and foreign investors to become the leading coastal resort on the Red...
When the Sinai peninsula was returned to Egypt, Ras Muhammad was declared for protection from fishing and other human activities. Some of the fishing methods, such as using dynamite and knives aslo wereimpacting the coral reef and the fish populations. In 1983, the Egyptian...
Al-Qahira, which is Cairo in English , Cairo was founded by the Islamic dynasty of Fatimids in 969 AD.So Cairo has been the capital of Egypt for alomst 1000 years and now it is the largest city in Egypt and Africa in terms of...
Time to explore Luxor with Kemet Travel . Luxor was the ancient city of Thebes, the great capital of Egypt during the new kingdom, Luxor was regarded in the Ancient Egyptian texts as (Ta ipet ) meaning the shrine and also as wast (city...
Explore Aswan With Kemet Travel . Aswan is the southernmost city in Egypt and Egypt’s gate way to Africa. Aswan has always been of great strategic importance . In ancient times Aswan was a garriosn town for the military campaigns agianst Nubia, its quarries...
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