Imagine going to a place a few miles from the center of Cairo where Egypt's history and art come alive! At the Pharaonic (Pharaohs is a king of ancient Egypt) Village you'll see faithful reproductions of buildings, clothing and lifestyles, a complete replica of the tomb of Tutankhamun and museums relating to different periods of Egyptian history.
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The Pharaonic Era dates back to 3000 years B.C. till Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in 323 B.C. During the Pharaonic Era, Egypt witnessed many aspects of progress and renaissance in all fields. Historians divide the Pharaonic Era into three successive divisions: Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom and Modern Kingdom.
At the Pharaonic Village, visitors sail on comfortable motorized barges down a network of canals and view incredibly accurate tableaux of the recreation of ancient Egyptian life. Though the city of Cairo surrounds the island, not a trace of it penetrates the thick wall of trees planted around the island. Sights include recreations of industries, games, arts, and moments from history and legend. Services such as cafeterias, boat rentals, a children's playground and a restaurant that serves both Egyptian and European dishes help to make your stay even more enjoyable.
Khufu (called Cheops by the Ptolemaic Greeks), second king of the 4th Dynasty, built this mammoth structure containing 2,350,000 cubic meters of stone. Specific methods used to build the edifice still puzzle investigators, but the most recent theory is that a sloping ramp wound around the pyramid, which grew with the monlith. When the core was complete, workers positioned the capstone, which brought the pyramid's original height to 135 meters (443 feet). The rest of the sheathing was added, possibly from the top down. As each level was finished, its section of ramp was dismantled. Three small pyramids that stand along the southeast side of the road were created for Khufu's queens. The narrow, stone-lined pits housed funerary boats.
The imposing building which now houses the Cairo Egyptian Museum was designed by the French architect, Marcel Dourgnon, winner of an international competition. Today it contains the most important and impressive collection of Egyptian art in the world and the actual treasure of Tutankhamen.
The Memphite"Luxor" period it was a small village where the war god Montu was worshipped. in the 10th Dynasty political and geographical reasons led to an increase in its importance, till it became the capital of the pharaons in the New Kingdom. Amon, the third god in the triad with Mut and Khonsu, was worshipped there with great pomp. New imposing temples were erected to the god with every victory, every triumph. Its decline began when Ashurpanipal plundered the city in 672 B.C.: the Ptolemies then destroyed it completely, so that in Roman times it was already a sea of ruins. This time too, as was the case with Memphis, the prophesy was fulfilled. Ezechiel had said "Thebes will be rent asunder...'. The old Egyptian capital remained divided in two by a canal: on the south the city of Luxor arose, on the north the village of Karnak developed. The decorations of the temple once more repeat thepharaoh's deeds as he stopped the Hittite advance. But stivals held the first month . There are also scenes of the festivals of fertility, and in honor of whom the pharaoh sacrificed a white bull. Another interesting and unusual decoration is on one wall of the hypostyle hall: the sons and daughters of Ramses, in a double row, are lined up in the order of their succession and birth. Merneptah, who was to suci ceed Ramses II on the Egyptian throne, is in the thirteenth place.
Dendera, he Greek version of the city of Tentyra. The sanctuary of Hathor still has its temple practically intact and numerous other ruins which enable us to reconstruct the exact layout of the entire sacred area.It was dedicated to the goddess Hathor, whose name (literally Hathor) means 'the dwelling of Horus", and she is often shown as a sacred cow or as a woman wearing horns. Built in granite, as were most of the Ptolemaic temples.
The most beautiful and imposing construction of the greatest pharaoh in Egyptian history, Abu Simbel is situated in the heart of the Nubian territory, almost at the borders of Sudan, 40 minutes by air from Aswan, but also within reach by river boat, bus or car (circa 280 kilometers in the western desert). In theory, the temple of Abu Simbel was dedicated to the triad Amon-Ra, Harmakis and Ptah, but in practice it was erected solely to glorify in the centuries its builder Ramses II the Great . Abu Simbel is not only one of the finest temples in Egypt - certainly the most unusual and majestic - but is also the symbol of the gigantic salvaging operation of all the Nubian temples threatened by Lake Nasser. Long forgotten, it was pure chance that Ybsambul - as it was called - once more saw the light of day.On May 22, 1813, the Swiss Johann Ludwig Burckhardt happened to see the upper part of four stone giants emerging, as if by magic, from the sand.