Jaxon Alston
The architects of Ancient Egypt were so advanced that today, many of these monuments still survive - some of them in remarkably good condition.
When it finally opens, Cairo's Grand Egyptian Museum will be the largest museum dedicated to a single civilization.
Standing just two kilometers away from the pyramids of Giza, the monument, which will house some of Egypt's most precious relics, is expected to attract around five million visitors a year.
If you're planning a trip to Egypt, make time for exploring the country's myriad ancient treasures. The civilization of Ancient Egypt lasted for more than 3,000 years, during which time its rulers made their mark upon their kingdoms with a series of increasingly impressive monumental building projects.
From the mummies to the pyramids, the Sphinx to the Rosetta Stone, Egyptian antiquities have been a subject of interest since Napoleon invaded Egypt in the late 1700s. Since then, treasure-seekers and scholars alike have been fascinated by this ancient culture and its artifacts.
Most people visit museums and art galleries when they travel. Few people seem to actually enjoy them.
Stand in a room and people watch and you’ll see a parade of bored, stressed, distracted faces. You’ll see disgruntled kids trailing behind their parents, whining and asking for an ice cream. Teenagers racing to snap an Instagram picture of the most famous exhibit, taking selfies in any reflective surface. Tourists wielding cameras sprinting from room to room, taking pictures at lightning speed with one hand and pressing an audio guide to their ear with the other. Hordes of people shuffling around, reading the signs, glancing and moving on.
As far as archaeological attractions go, the pyramids of ancient Egypt must surely rank amongst the most iconic of them all, along with sites such as Pompeii in Italy and Stonehenge in England. Iconic sites usually achieve their status because of their mystical capital.
Welcome to our Egypt Travel Blog page. It’s hard to find up to date information or travel guides for Egypt because the travellers and holiday-makers all but stopped coming quite a few years ago. I haven’t been able to find any other travel blogs that cover Egypt in any depth, so I decided to make ours as comprehensive and information-packed as possible.
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Ancient Egyptian archaeological sites in present-day Egypt.
Also ancient Nubian, Greek, and Roman; and historical Coptic and Islamic — archaeological sites in the country.
