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One From Each Place: A&Ok Egypt And The Nile

November 3, 2022

I can’t recall one other occasion in current reminiscence that has introduced together with it a lot content material after the very fact. Our regular course of, hopeful of giving readers a good suggestion of any given journey expertise is definitely like, normally begins prematurely, as we put together to go. We attempt to take you alongside for the experience too, trailing off and transferring on to different matters after the very fact. Abercrombie & Kent’s Egypt and the Nile Small Group Journey appears to be the journey that retains on giving. Today we get again to an ordinary post-travel photograph characteristic sequence, One From Each Place. This gallery has my favourite photograph from every place we stopped the place images have been doable so it’s all in regards to the locations, in no explicit order.

Unique to touring Egypt, we have been required to current a ticket at many main points of interest. Apparently bundling is just not an idea that has unfold to Egypt which labored out simply effective for us. The a part of these tickets we retained made for nice souvenirs.

Also useful and a little bit of a tip: Make the primary photograph shot of an attraction that of the ticket. Later, if the scenes collected alongside the best way begin to run collectively in your thoughts, this little little bit of documentation will likely be useful. Also useful; touring with luxurious journey firm Abercrombie & Kent, we by no means stood in line to purchase one in every of these tickets. Instead, Egyptologist Ibrahim took care of that, passing them out to us at every place.

An internet site to grow to be very accustomed to earlier than visiting Egypt: The Supreme Council of Antiquities and their record of web sites, quoted right here with hyperlinks to extra info on every fascinating place.

Luxor Temple

“Founded perhaps as early as the reign of Ahmose, but begun certainly by the time of Hatshepsut, Luxor Temple was constructed primarily during the reigns of Amenhotep III and Ramesses II (all during the New Kingdom, ca. 1500-1200 BC). Other kings, including Tutankhamun, Horemheb, and Alexander the Great, also added decoration or minor structures to this gem-like temple” says Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities. Read extra right here

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Komombo Temple

“The site of Kom Ombo hosts the Ptolemaic Temple of Herwer (Haroeris) and Sobek, as well as a smaller, Roman-Period temple to Hathor, and a Nilometer. The Temple of Haroeris and Sobek is noted for its symmetrical construction: two entrances, two sanctuaries, and a line of symmetry that divides the temple into the domains of Haroeris and Sobek. The worship of Sobek, the crocodile god, is an example of the manner in which the Egyptians turned dangerous creatures into protectors.” Read extra right here

See extra in our Giza Pyramids Flickr Photo Album

Philae Temple

“The original site of Philae lies underneath the waters of Lake Nasser; however, with the help of UNESCO, the entire temple was relocated to a new island, Agilkia, just south of Aswan. The earliest monuments on the island date are from the reign of Nectanebo I, while the largest structure on the island is the Temple of Isis, whose earliest decorations date to Ptolemy II.” says Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities. Read extra right here

See extra in our Giza Pyramids Flickr Photo Album

Edfu Temple

“The website of Edfu comprises probably the most full and best-preserved temple in Egypt, the Ptolemaic Temple of Horus. This was constructed between 237 BC and 57 BC on high of the stays of earlier temples.

The reliefs that cowl the partitions, columns, and doorways of the temple represent a particularly vital supply of details about historical Egyptian spiritual and political thought” Read extra

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Valley of the Kings

“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 valley was Hatshepsut, although many Egptologists believe that Thutmose I was the first to locate his tomb here.” Read extra

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The Unfinished Oblisk

“Saqqara is located south of modern Cairo, on the west bank of the Nile river, and covers an area over 6 km long and more than 1.5 km wide. It was once part of a larger system of cemeteries that spanned the modern sites of Giza, Abusir, and Dahshur. The area was first used as a necropolis during the 1st Dynasty, and continued to be used for burials for the next 3,000 years. This site also became a center for ‘animal cults’ from the Late Period (ca. 712 – 343 BC) onward, and ibises, falcons, baboons, cats, dogs, and bulls were interred here in special cemeteries.” Read extra

See extra in our Giza Pyramids Flickr Photo Album

Karnak Temple

“Karnak, located on the East Bank at Thebes, 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. It 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 Kingdom through the Roman era dedicated architectural elements such as pylons (monumental gateways), courts, temples, and shrines to the precincts of the Theban triad: Amun, his consort Mut, their son Khonsu, and the war god Montu, creating the sprawling zone we see today.” Read extra

See extra in our Temple Of Karnak Flickr Photo Album

Mit Rahina Museum

“The few remaining ruins of the great city of Memphis are located mainly around the small village of Mit Rahina. Egypt’s administrative capital was located in this general area from the beginning of the Early Dynastic period until the late New Kingdom, and remained important throughout Egyptian history. The principal remains at Mit Rahina date to the New Kingdom and later. The temple of Ptah, tutelary god of Memphis, was at one time one of the grandest temples in Egypt. Today only a fraction of the temple remains, along with an enclosure containing the ruined palace of Apries north of the Temple of Ptah. A palace of Merenptah was also excavated in this area.” Read extra

See extra in our Mit Rahina Museum Flickr Photo Album

Cheops Boat Museum

“Built in the shadow of the Great Pyramid at Giza, the Khufu Boat Museum houses the largest royal vessel ever found in Egypt. Discovered in 1954, this boat had been dismantled in ancient times and placed in a pit to the south of the pyramid. A second boat still lies in a similar pit directly to the west of the first pit. Scholars are divided over whether these boats were symbolic solar barks for the king to use in his afterlife, or funeral boats, used to transport Khufu’s funerary equipment to his pyramid.” Read extra

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Giza Pyramids

“Giza is located west and south of modern Cairo, in the vast desert imagined by the ancient Egyptians to be the land of the dead. Guarded by the Great Sphinx, the plateau is dominated by the massive pyramids of Khufu (Gr. Cheops), Khafre (Gr. Chephren), and Menkaure (Gr. Mycerinus), all of whom ruled Egypt during the 4th Dynasty (c. 2500 BC). The royal pyramid complexes, which include temples, causeways, and satellite pyramids, are surrounded by tombs of the elite-members of the royal family, the nobility, and the priesthood. At the foot of the plateau, south of the Great Sphinx, lie the Cemetery and Town of the Pyramid Builders, where the men and women who constructed the royal and elite tombs on the main plateau lived, worked, and were buried.” Read extra

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The Egyptian Museum Of Antiquities

“The Egyptian Museum in Cairo contains the world’s most extensive collection of pharaonic antiquities; no visit to Egypt is complete without a trip through its galleries. The original collection was established in the late 19th century under Auguste Mariette and housed in Boulaq. The objects were moved in 1891 to the palace of Ismail Pasha in Giza before being transferred in 1902 to the current building at Tahrir Square, which is the first purpose-built museum edifice in the world.” Read extra.

See extra in our Egyptian Museum Of Antiquities Flickr Photo Album

The Step Pyramid

“Saqqara is situated south of contemporary Cairo, on the west financial institution of the Nile river, and covers an space over 6 km lengthy and greater than 1.5 km extensive. It was as soon as half of a bigger system of cemeteries that spanned the trendy websites of Giza, Abusir, and Dahshur. The space was first used as a necropolis in the course of the 1st Dynasty, and continued for use for burials for the following 3,000 years. This website additionally turned a middle for ‘animal cults’ from the Late Period (ca. 712 – 343 BC) onward, and ibises, falcons, baboons, cats, canine, and bulls have been interred right here in particular cemeteries’. Read extra right here

See extra in our Step Pyramid Flickr Photo Album

Not each place we went required a ticket for admission although. See different favourite scenes from our Abercrombie & Kent Small Group Journey at our new Egypt And The Nile photograph narrative on Exposure , stay now:

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Luxor Temple

Komombo Temple

Philae Temple

Edfu Temple

Valley of the Kings

The Unfinished Oblisk

Karnak Temple

Mit Rahina Museum

Cheops Boat Museum

Giza Pyramids

The Egyptian Museum Of Antiquities

The Step Pyramid

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