Private Tour to Luxor Museum and Mummification Museum
Description
Experience a half day tour to visit Luxor Museum and Luxor Mummification Museum. Luxor Museum offers variety of 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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Itinerary
Your professional Egyptologist local Tour guide will be pick you up from your place of choice in Luxor 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.
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.
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What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
Your tour guide & Driver will pick you up from your (Hotel / Nile Cruise) in Luxor
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Important Information
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- US$7 Supplement per person for Pickup or drop-off Luxor airport (one way)
- US$7 Supplement per person for Pickup or drop-off Luxor West Bank hotel (one way)