- There are 107 halls in the museum. At the ground floor there are huge statues. The upper floor houses small statues, jewels and Tutankhamen treasures.
- It is the largest Egyptian antiques museum in the world and houses about 250,000 antique pieces covering the whole history of ancient Egypt, which extends over the past five thousand years.
- The Egyptian Museum comprises many sections arranged in chronological order.
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| Pyramids of Giza |
How To Reach :
- This tour has two options; you can either take a flight or a coach tour to Cairo.
- You will be picked up in an air-conditioned deluxe vehicle from your hotel in Hurghada.
- Accompanied by a guide, you will be taken on a tour of Cairo, the capital city of Egypt. The journey from Hurghada to Cairo by road takes approx. 6 hours.
Tourist Attraction :
- Five thousand years ago, Giza became the royal burial place for Memphis, the Pharaoh’s capital city.
- Giza’a three pyramids and the Sphinx were constructed in the 4th dynasty of Egypt’s Old Kingdom. About 2,500 BC, King Khufu, the second pharaoh of the fourth dynasty, commissioned the building of his tomb at Giza.
- On an average, over 2 million blocks of stone was used to build Khufu’s pyramid, and the heaviest blocks were used as the ceiling of Khufu’s burial chamber.
- Khufu’s son was the next in the royal line who commissioned the building of his own pyramid complex which includes the Sphinx.
- Each pyramid has a mortuary temple and a valley temple linked by long causeways that were rooted and walled. Stop for lunch at a local restaurant.