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Tour from Sharm el Sheikh to visit Pyramids, National Egyptian museum, Sphinx, watch Sound and Light show |
We run this tour Every Friday, Monday & Wednesday |
Pick up from the hotel Pick up from your hotel in Sharm el Sheikh, transfer by Air conditioned van or bus to Sharm el Sheikh Airport and fly to Cairo. Meet & assist in Cairo Airport Our English speaking guide will be waiting for you outside the arrival hall of Cairo airport with the sign "Sharm-club.com" . |
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Visit of The National Egyptian museum Start your day with the visiting of The National Egyptian museum where 120 000 pieces are exhibited, we will see all the collection of the museum, Old kingdom, Middle kingdom, New kingdom and king Tut Anch Amun collection. You can also visit mummy's hall (optional). Nile cruise with a small motor-boat Visit of Pyramids & Sphinx At the end of the day you will have a great opportunity for shopping in markets of Cairo. |
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| Sound and Light Show at Pyramids Watch the amazing Show of Sound and Light at the Pyramids in English language. Fly back to Sharm el Sheikh After the show you will be droven to Cairo Airport, fly back to Sharm el Sheikh Airport and drive back to your hotel. |
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| The program includes: All transfers by Air conditioned car in Sharm el Sheikh and Cairo. All entrance fees: the National Egyptian museum, Pyramids area and Sphinx. Sound & Light show. Professional English speaking Egyptologist tour guide. Transfers from the hotel to Sharm Airport and back, return flight tickets Sharm/Cairo/Sharm. Lunch in a Hard Rock Cafe The Program excludes: Tipping Drinks in the Restaurant Any extras not mentioned in the program. |
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| price: 155£ per person Option 2 |
| Important discovery on Giza Plateau |
During construction of the sewage system of the village of Nazlet Al-Samman and other villages at the foot of the Great Pyramid, a large Old Kingdom settlement about three square kilometres in area was found. |
1989-90 - the cemetery of the pyramid-builders was discovered - it has shown the world for the first time that the Pyramids were not built by slaves but by the ancient Egyptians themselves. |
| 1991 - ancient bakeries were found due south of the Sphinx. |
Wall of the Crow - Workmen's area logically should be located behind a certain limestone wall with a gate built into it. This wall, known as Heit Al-Ghorab (wall of the crow), was built to separate the royal Pyramids from the workmen who built them. A massive ancient gateway, which came to be known by early travellers as the Wall of the Crow - has been visible for thousands of years and horse-riders from Neslet Al-Siman regularly passed through it; was it a causeway, a bridge or a tunnel was not clear. It was not an easy task to clear the area to find the gate. Sand bags were used to hold back the rubble that had accumulated along the sides of the wall, and only when cleared was it realised what an impressive structure it really was. The gate was more than 2.5 metres wide and about seven metres high, and the wall itself was more than 10 metres thick. It is one of the largest gateways of its kind in the world. The roadway passing through it was carefully paved with what appeared to be abraded ceramic fragments, well trampled and worn. It sloped down several metres under the sand to what suspected might be a buried harbour to the north. |
“Eastern town” – A street that linked the workers' town to the pyramid complex and what was labelled the "eastern town with a huge royal building for storage and administration” was excavated. From an early stage in the work, it seemed certain that it was all part of a vast ancient settlement site with streets, galleries, bakeries and industrial areas, and that it included barracks which could shelter and feed up to 2,000 rotating labourers who worked in shifts following the well-established Egyptian pattern whereby local town and village leaders sent teams from their provinces all over the country to share in great national projects. Bearing in mind that the Old Kingdom settlement continues under Nezlet Al-Siman, and, considered alongside other parts of the settlement not yet excavated, the whole area might have contained as many as 20,000 labourers (an Egyptologist's estimate), many of whom would have been in support industries like pottery and cloth manufacture. |
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