Summary:
Gates of Glory and Façades of Fame, a Walking Tour of Islamic Cairo
Making El Fayoum Bloom, Tour of Fayoum, the Garden of Egypt
To the Capital of Memory and the Shores of Wisdom Alexandria
Shine from the Shrine: Tour of the City of the Dead (Al-Qarafa)
An Idyllic Tour of Gezirit el-Dahab, the Gold Island
Tour of the Treasure Laden Landscape of Luxor
Guided Tour of Saqqara Pyramids and Tombs
Behind the Sun: Revolutionary Tour of Cairo
Tour of Coptic Cairo, the Babylon of Egypt
Tour of Minya, the Bride of Upper Egypt
Ride with Your Guide at Giza Pyramids
Camel Caravan from Giza to Saqqara
Modern Medicine from Ancient Egypt
Tour of the City of Rosetta
Walking Arabic Classroom
Tour of Cairo Museum
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Walking Arabic Classroom
Thursday 1st of March, 2012 at 7 p.m.
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Shine from the Shrine: Tour of the City of the Dead (Al-Qarafa)
La Città dei Morti
Friday 2nd March 2012 at 6:30 a.m.
For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69
or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com
The scintillating City of the Dead is full of life and amenities that
if you sum, you realize it is more town than slum. We will be able to
label the fabled vast necropolis and feast our eyes on monuments
glorious from the City Victorious. True to the vision of some of its
founders, the City of the Dead has the power to entertain the mind and
retain the body.
Mamelukes St.
Sultan Ahmed St.
Mausoleum of Ahmed Hassanein, Author of the Lost Oases
Tomb of Narriman Sadek, Cinderella of the Nile, the Last Queen of Egypt
War Martyrs Tombs
Amir Kabir Qurqumas Complex
Mausoleum of Princess Shwikar
Mausoleum of Muhammed Talaat Harb, Egypt's Leading Economist
Tomb of Omar Makram, Revolutionist
Tomb of Noubar, First Prime Minister of Egypt
Mosque and Mausoleum of Sultan Faraj ibn Barquq
Mausoleum of Al-Ashraf Barsbay
Tomb of René Jean Marie Joseph Guénon, French Author and Intellectual
Mausoleum of Khedive Muhammed Tewfik Pasha
Tomb of Professor Ali Moustafa Mosharafa Pasha, Egyptian Theoretical Physicist
Complex of Sultan Al-Ashraf Sayf al-Din Qa'it Bay
Tomb of Emir Tashtimur
Japanese Tomb
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Tour of the City of Rosetta
Saturday, 3 March 2012 at 8 a.m.
Fort Saint Julian: Home to the Rosetta Stone
Arab Houses
Turkish Bath
Mosques
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Gates of Glory and Façades of Fame*
A Walking Tour of Islamic Cairo
Ahmed Seddik
Sunday, 4 March, 2012 at 6:18 AM (Sunrise)
For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69
or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com
In this beautiful tour of words and deeds, history and architecture
are elegantly braided together. Travel back in time to the splendid
sights and sounds of historic Cairo, the fabled bridge between ancient
Egypt and modern Egypt.
In this tour, I shall prove that there exists an architectural
historian technique whereby history can be interpreted through
architecture. Behold! Seddik technique is unique.
"Travel. Set out and head for pastures new. Life tastes richer when
you've rode warm feet. No water that stagnates is fit to drink, for
only that which flows is truly sweet ...." - Ibn Battuta
"behind the gates of glory and façades of fame lie unique stories of
rise and fall that teach us to never give in, in nothing great or
small, in the march of history against the juggernaut of time. When
domes dominate a relief of belief reveals the architecture of history
in the history of architecture through abodes beyond the boundaries of
death.
The minarets dot the I's and cross the T's of architecture, furnishing
a Rosetta Stone to untangle the web of history. The palaces of
startling elegance provide visual biographies highlighting the
salience of sailing in the sea of history and granting us a passport
to the past.
List of what we might or might not see during our tour:
Al Khiyamiyya
The Mosque of Salih Tala'i
Ahmed Maher
El-Darb El-Gadid
Bab Zeweila
Mosque of Almuayyad Sheikh
Wekalat Nafisa Albayda
Haret Al-Zahabi
Haret Al-Roum
Haret Al-Aqqadeya
Mosque of Alfakahany
Al-Kahkiyeen
Funerary Complex of Sultan Qansuh al-Ghuri (a glimpse)
Al-Azhar Mosque
The Mosque of Muhammed Bek Abu El-Dahab
Al-Hussein Mosque
Khan Jarkas el-Khalili
Haret Al Sanadyqyah
Alhamzawi Al-Saghir
Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay Complex
Jawhar Al-Qaid
Bayn al-Qasrayn
Mosque and Sabil-Kuttab of Shaykh 'Ali al- Mutahhar
Al Maqases
Sekket Al-Badistan
Al Westani
Al Bab Al Thaleth
Haret Al Saleheya
Madrasa and Mausoleum of al-Malik al-Salih Najm al-Din Ayyub
Al-Zahir Beibars
The Qalawun complex
Bait El Kadi (House of the Judge)
Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad ibn Qala'un Madrasa and Mausoleum
Sabil-Kuttab Mohamed Ali
Sultan al-Zahir Barquq Funerary Complex
Egyptian Textile Museum (just make a brief mention of)
Darb Kormoz
Al Khoronfesh
Al Qasabi
Sabil-Kuttab of Abdel-Rahman Katkhuda (Ottoman)
The Mosque of al-Aqmar
Haret Al Sananeeri
Haret Al-Darb al-Asfar
Bayt Al-Suhaymi in Al-Darb al-Asfar
Mosque-Sabil of Suleiman Agha el-Silahdar
Haret Bergewan
Amir Al Gyosh Al Goani
Al Dabeeba
Darb Al Waraka
Bayn Al-Sayareg
Haret Al-Morakeshi
Al-Hakim Bi-Amr-Allah Mosque
Sour Misr Al Qadima
Bab Al Fotouh (Gate of Conquests)
Albanhawy
Bab Al Nasr (Gate of Victory)
Wekalat Qaitbey
El-Jashankir Mosque
Gamaliyya
*A digital version of this tour by Ahmed Seddik is available as a
'PocketGuide' with voice, downloadable from Apple Store.
------------------------------
An Idyllic Tour of Gezirit el-Dahab, the Gold Island
Mix of monuments and nature
Monday, 5 March, 7 a.m.
For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69
or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com
------------------------------
Walking Arabic Classroom
Tuesday 6 March, 2012 at 7 p.m.
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Tour of Cairo Museum
Friday, 9 March 2012 at 10 a.m.
The Locus of the Lost Lotus
Old Kingdom (Zoser, Sneferu, Khufu, Khafre, Menkaure, Sahure...)
The First Revolution
Middle Kingdom
New Kingdom
Napoleon of Ancient Egypt
Egypt's Dazzling Sun
Akhenatun, the Heretic King
The Boy King Tutankhamun
Ramses the Great
Daily Life in Ancient Egypt
News Bulletins of Antiquity
Women in Ancient Egypt
Queen Hatshepsut (Maatkare)
Animal Mummies
Love Poetry
------------------------------
Behind the Sun: Revolutionary Tour of Cairo
by Ahmed Seddik
Friday 9 March 2012 at 2 p.m.
For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69
or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com
------------------------------
Shine from the Shrine: Tour of the City of the Dead (Al-Qarafa)
Saturday, 10 March, 2012 at 10 a.m
For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69
or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com
The scintillating City of the Dead is full of life and amenities that
if you sum, you realize it is more town than slum. We will be able to
label the fabled vast necropolis and feast our eyes on monuments
glorious from the City Victorious. True to the vision of some of its
founders, the City of the Dead has the power to entertain the mind and
retain the body.
Mamelukes St.
Sultan Ahmed St.
Mausoleum of Ahmed Hassanein, Author of the Lost Oases
Tomb of Narriman Sadek, Cinderella of the Nile, the Last Queen of Egypt
War Martyrs Tombs
Amir Kabir Qurqumas Complex
Mausoleum of Princess Shwikar
Mausoleum of Muhammed Talaat Harb, Egypt's Leading Economist
Tomb of Omar Makram, Revolutionist
Tomb of Noubar, First Prime Minister of Egypt
Mosque and Mausoleum of Sultan Faraj ibn Barquq
Mausoleum of Al-Ashraf Barsbay
Tomb of René Jean Marie Joseph Guénon, French Author and Intellectual
Mausoleum of Khedive Muhammed Tewfik Pasha
Tomb of Professor Ali Moustafa Mosharafa Pasha, Egyptian Theoretical Physicist
Complex of Sultan Al-Ashraf Sayf al-Din Qa'it Bay
Tomb of Emir Tashtimur
Japanese Tomb
------------------------------
Ride with Your Guide at Giza Pyramids
Khufu
Khafre
Quarries
Menkaure
Panorama
Mastaba Tombs
The Great Sphinx
Monday 12 March 2012
12 P.M. (Noon)
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Tour of Coptic Cairo, the Babylon of Egypt
Tuesday, 13 March 2012 at 10 a.m.
The Hanging Church (Al-Muallaka)
The Church of Saints Sergius and Bacchus
The Ben Ezra Synagogue
The Coptic Cemetery
The Coptic Museum
The Mosque of Amr Ibn El-As
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Walking Arabic Classroom
15 March, 2012 at 7 p.m.
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Camel Caravan from Giza to Saqqara
Friday, 16 March 2012
at 9 a.m.
------------------------------
Making El Fayoum Bloom, Tour of Fayoum, the Garden of Egypt
Saturday, 17 March, at 7 am
The sites that we are planning to explore:
The Graeco-Roman City of Karanis (Kom Oshim)
Quick visit of Fayoum Museum (most likely closed)
The Village of Tunis, the St Ives of Egypt
Medinet El-Fayoum, the Venice of Egypt
Lake Qarun (the Birka)
The Water Wheels (Al-Sawaqi)
------------------------------
Modern Medicine from Ancient Egypt
Lecture by Ahmed Seddik
Sunday, 18 March, 2012
6 p.m. Zamalek
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Tour of Minya, the Bride of Upper Egypt
Friday 23 March, 2012
at 7 a.m.
Ahmed Seddik
------------------------------
To the Capital of Memory and the Shores of Wisdom Alexandria
In the Footsteps of the Pharaohs of Pharos
By Ahmed Seddik
Friday, 30 March 2012
07:00 a.m. ----- 5:00 p.m.
From sunrise to sunset
For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69
or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com
We will be visiting:
The Odeon at Kom el-Dikka
The Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa
The Ancient Daughter Library at the so-called Pompey's Pillar
The Fort of the Mamluk Sultan Al Ashraf Seif El Deen Qaitbey
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina
For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69
or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com
------------------------------
Guided Tour of Saqqara Pyramids and Tombs
“Let Stone Set the Tone”
Saturday, 31 March, 2012
at 8 a.m.
www.AhmedSeddik.com
For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69
or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com
Monuments we are likely to see and/or explore:
Tomb of the Manicurists and Pedicurists of the King
The Valley Temple of King Unas
The Step Pyramid Complex
The Oldest Museum Label
The Philosophers' Circle
The Museum of Imhotep
The Pyramid of Userkaf
Tomb of Mereruka
Tomb of Kagemni
Pyramid of Unas
Pyramid of Teti
Tomb of Ti
For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69
or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com
------------------------------
Tour of the Treasure Laden Landscape of Luxor
Museum of Mummification
Valley of the Queens
Queen Hatshepsut
Valley of the Kings
Museum of Luxor
Karnak Temple
Ahmed Seddik
6 and 7 April
10 am
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Gates of Glory and Façades of Fame, a Walking Tour of Islamic Cairo
Making El Fayoum Bloom, Tour of Fayoum, the Garden of Egypt
To the Capital of Memory and the Shores of Wisdom Alexandria
Shine from the Shrine: Tour of the City of the Dead (Al-Qarafa)
An Idyllic Tour of Gezirit el-Dahab, the Gold Island
Tour of the Treasure Laden Landscape of Luxor
Guided Tour of Saqqara Pyramids and Tombs
Behind the Sun: Revolutionary Tour of Cairo
Tour of Coptic Cairo, the Babylon of Egypt
Tour of Minya, the Bride of Upper Egypt
Ride with Your Guide at Giza Pyramids
Camel Caravan from Giza to Saqqara
Modern Medicine from Ancient Egypt
Tour of the City of Rosetta
Walking Arabic Classroom
Tour of Cairo Museum
------------------------------
Walking Arabic Classroom
Thursday 1st of March, 2012 at 7 p.m.
------------------------------
Shine from the Shrine: Tour of the City of the Dead (Al-Qarafa)
La Città dei Morti
Friday 2nd March 2012 at 6:30 a.m.
For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69
or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com
The scintillating City of the Dead is full of life and amenities that
if you sum, you realize it is more town than slum. We will be able to
label the fabled vast necropolis and feast our eyes on monuments
glorious from the City Victorious. True to the vision of some of its
founders, the City of the Dead has the power to entertain the mind and
retain the body.
Mamelukes St.
Sultan Ahmed St.
Mausoleum of Ahmed Hassanein, Author of the Lost Oases
Tomb of Narriman Sadek, Cinderella of the Nile, the Last Queen of Egypt
War Martyrs Tombs
Amir Kabir Qurqumas Complex
Mausoleum of Princess Shwikar
Mausoleum of Muhammed Talaat Harb, Egypt's Leading Economist
Tomb of Omar Makram, Revolutionist
Tomb of Noubar, First Prime Minister of Egypt
Mosque and Mausoleum of Sultan Faraj ibn Barquq
Mausoleum of Al-Ashraf Barsbay
Tomb of René Jean Marie Joseph Guénon, French Author and Intellectual
Mausoleum of Khedive Muhammed Tewfik Pasha
Tomb of Professor Ali Moustafa Mosharafa Pasha, Egyptian Theoretical Physicist
Complex of Sultan Al-Ashraf Sayf al-Din Qa'it Bay
Tomb of Emir Tashtimur
Japanese Tomb
------------------------------
------------------------------
Tour of the City of Rosetta
Saturday, 3 March 2012 at 8 a.m.
Fort Saint Julian: Home to the Rosetta Stone
Arab Houses
Turkish Bath
Mosques
------------------------------
Gates of Glory and Façades of Fame*
A Walking Tour of Islamic Cairo
Ahmed Seddik
Sunday, 4 March, 2012 at 6:18 AM (Sunrise)
For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69
or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com
In this beautiful tour of words and deeds, history and architecture
are elegantly braided together. Travel back in time to the splendid
sights and sounds of historic Cairo, the fabled bridge between ancient
Egypt and modern Egypt.
In this tour, I shall prove that there exists an architectural
historian technique whereby history can be interpreted through
architecture. Behold! Seddik technique is unique.
"Travel. Set out and head for pastures new. Life tastes richer when
you've rode warm feet. No water that stagnates is fit to drink, for
only that which flows is truly sweet ...." - Ibn Battuta
"behind the gates of glory and façades of fame lie unique stories of
rise and fall that teach us to never give in, in nothing great or
small, in the march of history against the juggernaut of time. When
domes dominate a relief of belief reveals the architecture of history
in the history of architecture through abodes beyond the boundaries of
death.
The minarets dot the I's and cross the T's of architecture, furnishing
a Rosetta Stone to untangle the web of history. The palaces of
startling elegance provide visual biographies highlighting the
salience of sailing in the sea of history and granting us a passport
to the past.
List of what we might or might not see during our tour:
Al Khiyamiyya
The Mosque of Salih Tala'i
Ahmed Maher
El-Darb El-Gadid
Bab Zeweila
Mosque of Almuayyad Sheikh
Wekalat Nafisa Albayda
Haret Al-Zahabi
Haret Al-Roum
Haret Al-Aqqadeya
Mosque of Alfakahany
Al-Kahkiyeen
Funerary Complex of Sultan Qansuh al-Ghuri (a glimpse)
Al-Azhar Mosque
The Mosque of Muhammed Bek Abu El-Dahab
Al-Hussein Mosque
Khan Jarkas el-Khalili
Haret Al Sanadyqyah
Alhamzawi Al-Saghir
Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay Complex
Jawhar Al-Qaid
Bayn al-Qasrayn
Mosque and Sabil-Kuttab of Shaykh 'Ali al- Mutahhar
Al Maqases
Sekket Al-Badistan
Al Westani
Al Bab Al Thaleth
Haret Al Saleheya
Madrasa and Mausoleum of al-Malik al-Salih Najm al-Din Ayyub
Al-Zahir Beibars
The Qalawun complex
Bait El Kadi (House of the Judge)
Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad ibn Qala'un Madrasa and Mausoleum
Sabil-Kuttab Mohamed Ali
Sultan al-Zahir Barquq Funerary Complex
Egyptian Textile Museum (just make a brief mention of)
Darb Kormoz
Al Khoronfesh
Al Qasabi
Sabil-Kuttab of Abdel-Rahman Katkhuda (Ottoman)
The Mosque of al-Aqmar
Haret Al Sananeeri
Haret Al-Darb al-Asfar
Bayt Al-Suhaymi in Al-Darb al-Asfar
Mosque-Sabil of Suleiman Agha el-Silahdar
Haret Bergewan
Amir Al Gyosh Al Goani
Al Dabeeba
Darb Al Waraka
Bayn Al-Sayareg
Haret Al-Morakeshi
Al-Hakim Bi-Amr-Allah Mosque
Sour Misr Al Qadima
Bab Al Fotouh (Gate of Conquests)
Albanhawy
Bab Al Nasr (Gate of Victory)
Wekalat Qaitbey
El-Jashankir Mosque
Gamaliyya
*A digital version of this tour by Ahmed Seddik is available as a
'PocketGuide' with voice, downloadable from Apple Store.
------------------------------
An Idyllic Tour of Gezirit el-Dahab, the Gold Island
Mix of monuments and nature
Monday, 5 March, 7 a.m.
For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69
or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com
------------------------------
Walking Arabic Classroom
Tuesday 6 March, 2012 at 7 p.m.
------------------------------
Tour of Cairo Museum
Friday, 9 March 2012 at 10 a.m.
The Locus of the Lost Lotus
Old Kingdom (Zoser, Sneferu, Khufu, Khafre, Menkaure, Sahure...)
The First Revolution
Middle Kingdom
New Kingdom
Napoleon of Ancient Egypt
Egypt's Dazzling Sun
Akhenatun, the Heretic King
The Boy King Tutankhamun
Ramses the Great
Daily Life in Ancient Egypt
News Bulletins of Antiquity
Women in Ancient Egypt
Queen Hatshepsut (Maatkare)
Animal Mummies
Love Poetry
------------------------------
Behind the Sun: Revolutionary Tour of Cairo
by Ahmed Seddik
Friday 9 March 2012 at 2 p.m.
For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69
or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com
------------------------------
Shine from the Shrine: Tour of the City of the Dead (Al-Qarafa)
Saturday, 10 March, 2012 at 10 a.m
For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69
or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com
The scintillating City of the Dead is full of life and amenities that
if you sum, you realize it is more town than slum. We will be able to
label the fabled vast necropolis and feast our eyes on monuments
glorious from the City Victorious. True to the vision of some of its
founders, the City of the Dead has the power to entertain the mind and
retain the body.
Mamelukes St.
Sultan Ahmed St.
Mausoleum of Ahmed Hassanein, Author of the Lost Oases
Tomb of Narriman Sadek, Cinderella of the Nile, the Last Queen of Egypt
War Martyrs Tombs
Amir Kabir Qurqumas Complex
Mausoleum of Princess Shwikar
Mausoleum of Muhammed Talaat Harb, Egypt's Leading Economist
Tomb of Omar Makram, Revolutionist
Tomb of Noubar, First Prime Minister of Egypt
Mosque and Mausoleum of Sultan Faraj ibn Barquq
Mausoleum of Al-Ashraf Barsbay
Tomb of René Jean Marie Joseph Guénon, French Author and Intellectual
Mausoleum of Khedive Muhammed Tewfik Pasha
Tomb of Professor Ali Moustafa Mosharafa Pasha, Egyptian Theoretical Physicist
Complex of Sultan Al-Ashraf Sayf al-Din Qa'it Bay
Tomb of Emir Tashtimur
Japanese Tomb
------------------------------
Ride with Your Guide at Giza Pyramids
Khufu
Khafre
Quarries
Menkaure
Panorama
Mastaba Tombs
The Great Sphinx
Monday 12 March 2012
12 P.M. (Noon)
------------------------------
Tour of Coptic Cairo, the Babylon of Egypt
Tuesday, 13 March 2012 at 10 a.m.
The Hanging Church (Al-Muallaka)
The Church of Saints Sergius and Bacchus
The Ben Ezra Synagogue
The Coptic Cemetery
The Coptic Museum
The Mosque of Amr Ibn El-As
----------------------
Walking Arabic Classroom
15 March, 2012 at 7 p.m.
------------------------------
Camel Caravan from Giza to Saqqara
Friday, 16 March 2012
at 9 a.m.
------------------------------
Making El Fayoum Bloom, Tour of Fayoum, the Garden of Egypt
Saturday, 17 March, at 7 am
The sites that we are planning to explore:
The Graeco-Roman City of Karanis (Kom Oshim)
Quick visit of Fayoum Museum (most likely closed)
The Village of Tunis, the St Ives of Egypt
Medinet El-Fayoum, the Venice of Egypt
Lake Qarun (the Birka)
The Water Wheels (Al-Sawaqi)
------------------------------
Modern Medicine from Ancient Egypt
Lecture by Ahmed Seddik
Sunday, 18 March, 2012
6 p.m. Zamalek
------------------------------
Tour of Minya, the Bride of Upper Egypt
Friday 23 March, 2012
at 7 a.m.
Ahmed Seddik
------------------------------
To the Capital of Memory and the Shores of Wisdom Alexandria
In the Footsteps of the Pharaohs of Pharos
By Ahmed Seddik
Friday, 30 March 2012
07:00 a.m. ----- 5:00 p.m.
From sunrise to sunset
For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69
or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com
We will be visiting:
The Odeon at Kom el-Dikka
The Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa
The Ancient Daughter Library at the so-called Pompey's Pillar
The Fort of the Mamluk Sultan Al Ashraf Seif El Deen Qaitbey
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina
For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69
or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com
------------------------------
Guided Tour of Saqqara Pyramids and Tombs
“Let Stone Set the Tone”
Saturday, 31 March, 2012
at 8 a.m.
www.AhmedSeddik.com
For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69
or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com
Monuments we are likely to see and/or explore:
Tomb of the Manicurists and Pedicurists of the King
The Valley Temple of King Unas
The Step Pyramid Complex
The Oldest Museum Label
The Philosophers' Circle
The Museum of Imhotep
The Pyramid of Userkaf
Tomb of Mereruka
Tomb of Kagemni
Pyramid of Unas
Pyramid of Teti
Tomb of Ti
For reservation: call: 0100-67-68-2-69
or email: ahmed.seddik@gmail.com
------------------------------
Tour of the Treasure Laden Landscape of Luxor
Museum of Mummification
Valley of the Queens
Queen Hatshepsut
Valley of the Kings
Museum of Luxor
Karnak Temple
Ahmed Seddik
6 and 7 April
10 am
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