Luxor Trip Overview
Experience a half day tour to visit Luxor Museum, it has a very wonderful carefully selected collection of items in the Theban temples and necropolis. And then move on to visit Luxor Mummification Museum, a small museum showing the Mummification tools, a model of mummified mummies. Animals that are sacred to the ancient Egyptians, such as cats, crocodiles, Jackals are mummified
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Duration: 4 hours
Starts: Luxor, Egypt
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Historical & Heritage Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Luxor, Nile River Valley, Egypt
Experience a half day tour to visit Luxor Museum, it has a very wonderful carefully selected collection of items in the Theban temples and necropolis. And then move on to visit Luxor Mummification Museum, a small museum showing the Mummification tools, a model of mummified mummies. Animals that are sacred to the ancient Egyptians, such as cats, crocodiles, Jackals are mummified
Itinerary
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Stop At: Luxor Museum, Center Corniche Ave, Luxor Egypt
Your professional Egyptologist local Tour guide will be waiting for you at your Luxor hotel / Nile Cruise lobby and start your tour to visit Luxor Museum. Inaugurated in 1975, the wonderful museum has a well-chosen collection of antiquities dating from the Middle Kingdom (2055 BC – c. 1650 BC) mostly gathered from the Theban temples and necropolis.
There is a new extension to Luxor museum “the Glory of Thebes” inaugurated in 2004, there are two royal mummies of Ahmose I and Ramses I of the New Kingdom (1570 – 1050 BC), some fantastic collection dating back to the time of the New Kingdom.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Stop At: Mummification Museum, Corniche El Nil St. Opposite Mina Palace Hotel, Luxor Egypt
Continue to visit Luxor Mummification Museum, opened to the public in 1997, the small museum displays human and animal mummies, tools used in the mummification process, explaining the art of mummification, a practice believed by the ancient Egyptians to be a critical part for the eternal life, examples of the types of objects traditionally buried with the dead.
Duration: 45 minutes
Stop At: Luxor Market, El-Souk, Luxor City, Luxor, Luxor Governorate, Egypt
Later on, you will have the opportunity to discover Luxor city tourist Souq, enjoy some free time for shopping in Luxor market, for some fun bartering with the local stall holders and get some lovely hand crafted gifts.
After finished, you will be transferred to your hotel in Luxor.
Duration: 1 hour
