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New Pyramids On Egypt's Tourist Map
Egyptian tourism is being revamped as I write. Visitors always went in flocks to visit the pyramids at Giza and the Egyptian Museum in Cairo but now there are new reasons to visit or revisit the country.
11 new pyramids at Abusir, just outside Cairo, are opening to the public for the first time as from this month. 22 new museums and attractions throughout Egypt will open in the next three years. The cradle of civilization is welcoming travelers with new antiquities and electric trams. You can say "Bye-bye" to the camel and horseback rides and the trinket salesmen as the road to the Great Pyramid of Giza is being brought to the 21st century standards.
11 new pyramids at Abusir, just outside Cairo, are opening to the public for the first time as from this month. 22 new museums and attractions throughout Egypt will open in the next three years. The cradle of civilization is welcoming travelers with new antiquities and electric trams. You can say "Bye-bye" to the camel and horseback rides and the trinket salesmen as the road to the Great Pyramid of Giza is being brought to the 21st century standards.
Also this month the Avenue of the Sphinxes on the banks of the Nile River, a promenade of 1,350 lionlike statues that once linked the great temples of Karnak and Luxor, is opening. You can also tour the painted tombs of the NK Cemetery, south of Saqqara, the main necropolis of Memphis, home to the stunning 4,700-year-old step pyramid of Djoser, which will also open late this summer for interior tours. The 4,600-year-old bent pyramid of Dahshur, the first true flat-sided pyramid will reveal its interior chambers to the tourists from December. Did you know there were over one hundred pyramids in Egypt?
An underwater museum is being built in Alexandria to reveal the many treasures that lie submerged just off the coast due to the rising sea. And almost 200km from the city excavations are undergoing to dig the tombs of Cleopatra and Marc Antony.
I've always been fascinated with ancient history and ruins give me goose bumps. But these guys aren't just turning upside-down Egypt; the country’s chief Egyptologist is even negotiating for the return of the Rosetta Stone from the British Museum and for the bust of Nefertiti from the Egyptian Museum in Berlin. Will these two landmarks of the two most important Egyptian museum outside Egypt go back home after so many years? Should they?
Photo: All pyramids of Giza, Wikimedia Commons
Photo: All pyramids of Giza, Wikimedia Commons
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