Day Trip to Luxor , Egypt from Marsa Alam ITINERARY pick up from your hotel in Marsa Alam and take you to Luxor by a private air-conditioned deluxe vehicle to visit the famous Karnak temple the largest place of worship ever built. Its ancient name Ipet-isut means “the most sacred of places.” The temple, or, more correctly, the complex of temples, was built over more than two thousand years by generation after generation of pharaohs. Within the complex, the great “Hypostyle Hall” is an incredible forest of giant pillars. Then you will have Lunch in a local restaurant and then you will enjoy an excursion to The West Bank of The Nile River to visit the two colossal statues of Amenhotep III (Colossi of Memnon) , and then visit the Valley of the Kings , where the magnificent tombs discovered, those tombs were carved deep into the desert rock, richly decorated and filled with treasures for the afterlife of the pharaohs, you will visit 3 tombs. Continue the tour to ...

The workers stayed at the tombs for 10 days and then returned to their families here in the village.The village of the workers housed the masons, artists, and sculptors who worked on the tombs in the Valley of the Kings and the Valley of the Queens. The men working on the tombs were not slaves -- they were government workers who were paid well and provided with supplies and food.They were not allowed to have contact with the people on the east bank -- and were in fact prevented from leaving the village here because they knew the secrets of the tombs. , Their families lived here in the village with them. These were often hereditary positions, so generation after generation of workers lived here. The tiny houses often had stairs to the roof, although it is hard to imagine what this village looked like, Narrow streets -- some of them only 2-3 feet wide -- wind through the maze like collection of houses. Just up the hill from the small village is a hillside where the workers built ...

Were it still standing, the Ozymandias colossus of Ramses (celebrated by poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in his sonnet "Ozymandias") would tower 20 meters above the ground, rivaling the Colossi of Memnon and the statues of Ramses carved into the mountain at Abu Simbel.  The name " Ramesseum " – or at least its French form, Rhamesséion – was coined by Jean-François Champollion, who visited the ruins of the site in 1829 and first identified the hieroglyphs making up Ramses' names and titles on the walls.  The design of Ramses's mortuary temple follows the standard designs of New Kingdom temple architecture. The main building, dedicated to the funerary cult, comprised two stone pylons (gateways, some 60 m wide), one after the other, each leading into a courtyard. Beyond the second courtyard, at the center of the complex, was a covered 48-column hypostyle hall , surrounding the inner sanctuary.  As is customary, the pylons and outer walls were decorated with...

How Much Would It Cost to Build the Great Pyramid Today? Even with cranes, helicopters, tractors and trucks at our disposal, it would be tough to construct the Great Pyramid of Giza today. Its construction 4,500 years ago is so astounding in some people's eyes that they invoke mystical or even alien involvement. But the current theory of the building of the Great Pyramid — the notion that it was assembled from the inside out, via a spiraling internal ramp — is probably still the best construction plan. Following that plan, we could replicate the Wonder of the Ancient World for a cool $5 billion. First, let's look at the blueprint: The pyramid is 756 feet long on each side, 481 feet high, and composed of 2.3 million stones weighing nearly 3 tons each for a total mass of 6.5 million tons. Legend has it that the structure was erected in just 20 years' time, meaning that a block had to have been moved into place about every 5 minutes of each day and night. That...

Located in the National Park forest of the Hunter Valley, 100 km north of Sydney, these ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs have been a part of the local folk lore for years. The hieroglyphs were first discovered in the early 1900′s and contains over 250 glyphs. You would think that the Australian government would protect this site for its historic value, but that is not the case. Because this site is NON-ABORIGINAL, the Australian government has no desire to protect this site. Egyptologist Ray Johnson, who has translated extremely ancient texts for the Museum of Antiquities in Cairo, eventually was successful in documenting and translating the two facing walls of Egyptian characters. Which he believes is from the Third Dynasty. Here is his translation below from the book “THE OZ – EGYPTIAN ENIGMA” – By Paul White The rock walls chronicle a tragic saga of ancient explorers shipwrecked in a strange and hostile land, and the untimely death of their royal leader,...

Heute werde ich euch auf einen Trip nach Deir el-Shalwit zum Isis Tempel mitnehmen. Der Ort hat auch noch die schreib weisen, Deir esch-Schelwit, Deir Chellouit, Deir Chelouit, Dair Schelwi oder wie ich ihn kenne unter Deir el-Shelwit was wohl die englische schreib weise ist. In vielen Büchern steht das der Ort Deir el-Shelwit 4 km weit weg von Medinet Habu, außerhalb von Luxor liegen soll. Wir sind mit dem Taxi dahin gefahren und mir kam es weiter vor als 4 km, also wer einen Gewaltmarsch machen will kann es auch zu Fuß erreichen oder wie andere sich ein Fahrrad mieten und hin "strampeln". Wir haben aber auch erfahren wenn man mit dem Fahrrad fährt sollte man auf wilde Hunde achten die da in dem Gebiet umher streifen. Nach einer holprigen fahrt haben wir also den Ort Deir el-Shelwit erreicht und uns ist der Tempel schon von weitem aufgefallen, da er ziemlich alleine steht. Auf dem Weg ist uns...

Wir machten uns morgens auf den Weg zur Suche nach der Cachette. Wir haben uns entschlossen vom Rammeseum querfeldein durch das Areal von el- Khokha (arab. el-Chocha) zu laufen. Zu el-Chocha kann ich nur sagen ... wer Zeit hat unbedingt vorbei schauen dazu aber ein anderes mal mehr. Man kann auch vom Eingang des Hatschepsut Tempels aus nach links dem Pfad folgen, dann kommt man auch hin. Der Weg ist für Leute besser die sich nicht so viel Zeit lassen wollen. Ich habe euch mal eine Karte gebastelt, damit es besser zu finden ist. Von oben auf dem Berg el-Qurn kann man den Weg in das Tal auch gut erkennen. Wenn man dem Weg folgt und nicht genau weiß wo das Grab liegt kann man sehr schnell vorbei laufen. Am auffälligsten ist der "graue" Haufen von der Ausräumung des Grabes den man am Berg sieht. So erkennt man das Tal vom Weg aus. Zu erst muß man ein wenig querfeld...