Egypt has been a significant destination for people in the Middle East, Africa and Europe from ancient times. An idealistic journey along the world's longest river dazzles the senses.

The celebrated sightseer attractions of Egypt are the millennia-old monuments for which the Nile Valley is world celebrated.

Principal in the middle of the Pyramids and Great Sphinx at Giza, the Abu Simbel temples south of Aswan and Valley of the Kings near Luxor. Cairo also boasts the Cairo Museum and the Mosque of Muhammad Ali Pasha very popular with visitors as well.

The Great Pyramid was built is an issue that may never be answered. Herodotus assumed that it would have taken 30 years and 100,000 slaves to have built it. This pyramid is contemplation to have been built between 2589 - 2566 BC. It is the biggest and the oldest of the Pyramids of Giza.

More than 80 pyramids in Egypt which were built mostly between 2600 BC and 1500 BC and all are located put up the shutters to the Nile River.

The Egyptian museum was Initial built in Boulak. In 1891, it was motivated to Giza Palace of "Ismail Pasha" which housed the antiquities that were later moved to the current building. A corridor for the imperial mummies was opened at the museum, housing eleven kings and queens.

One of Cairo's most fashionable tourist attractions is The Citadel, located on a spur of limestone that had been standing apart from its parent Moqattam Hills by quarrying.

The Egyptian faith that "To speak the name of the dead is to make him live again" is certainly accepted out in the building of the Tombs. The king's official names and titles are extolled in his tomb along with his images and statues.

The modern town of Luxor is the site of the legendary city of Thebes. A row of sphinxes line the entry to Karnack sanctuary. The most eminent section of these temples is a huge all called the Great Hypostyle Hall.


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