Royal Chariots Museum – Egypt

Royal Chariots Museum – Egypt

The Royal Carriages Museum, or the Royal Chariots Museum, is one of the museums located in Cairo in the Bulaq area, where all the “carriages” or carriages used by the Egyptian royal family in the pre-revolutionary periods are displayed. Royal Chariots Museum The Royal Chariots Museum in Bulaq is one of the most prestigious museums […]

Valley of the Queens in Luxor

Valley of the Queens in Luxor

Valley of the Queens in Luxor The Valley of the Queens is the burial place of the queens of ancient Egypt. It was known in ancient times as “Ta-Set-Neferu”, meaning: “Place of the sons of the pharaoh” or “Place of beauty”; because in this place the queens of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth dynasties (from […]

Ramesseum Temple in Luxor

Ramesseum Temple in Luxor

Ramesseum Temple in Luxor The Ramesseum Temple is one of the funerary temples that were built for the dead in ancient Egypt. It was built by King Ramses II, who was the king who had the most temples built for him. The temple includes huge statues of King Ramses II, and an important part of […]

Banana Island in Luxor

Banana Island in Luxor

Banana Island in Luxor “Banana Island” on the banks of the Nile River in the West Bank, a distinctive island created by the charming nature with slight interventions by the hands of the people of Luxor to represent a kingdom of magic, tranquility and mental clarity for visitors from Egyptian and foreign tourists who flock […]

The ancient Omari Mosque in Esna

The ancient Omari Mosque in Esna

The ancient Omari Mosque The ancient Omari Mosque in Esna, south of Luxor Governorate, or Al-Omari as the locals call it, is considered one of the greatest historical and heritage mosques in Upper Egypt. Its construction dates back to the year 474 AH, when it was built during the reign of the Fatimid Caliph Al-Mustansir […]

Habu Temple in Luxor

Habu Temple in Luxor

Habu Temple We present to you a series of historical temples around Luxor, in the service of readers to learn the history of the ancestors and the details and story of each of the great temples of Luxor that were built by the kings of the ancient Egyptian dynasties and became global archaeological sites visited […]

Pharaonic obelisks

Pharaonic obelisks

Ancient Egyptian Obelisks  The obelisks were carved from a single block of stone, with most of the obelisks coming from the granite quarries of Aswan. The oldest temple obelisk still in its original location is a red granite obelisk of the Twelfth Dynasty pharaoh Senusret I in the Matariya area of ​​the Heliopolis district of […]

Deir el-Bahari Temple in Luxor

Deir el-Bahari Temple in Luxor

Deir el-Bahari Temple. Hatshepsut Temple in Luxor The site of Deir el-Bahari is famous for containing the funerary temple of Queen Hatshepsut (c. 1473-1458 BC) on the West Bank of Luxor. The temple consists of three layers in the valley, where the funerary rituals were performed for both Queen Hatshepsut and her father, King Thutmose […]

Colossi of Memnon in Luxor

Colossi of Memnon in Luxor

Colossi of Memnon and the Temple of King Amenhotep III The Egyptian-German archaeological mission headed by Dr. Hourig Sourouzian, during the current archaeological season, during the ongoing work on the restoration project of the Colossi of Memnon and the funerary temple of King Amenhotep III, known as the “Temple of Millions of Years” on the […]

Luxor Museum in Egypt

Luxor Museum in Egypt

Luxor Museum on the Nile Corniche in Luxor Luxor Museum on the Nile Corniche in Luxor is one of the most beautiful museums that includes many rare artifacts discovered in Luxor, such as statues of kings and gods, in addition to many collectibles dating back to different historical eras of Egyptian history. The museum also […]