Tour guide - Mohamed zaafraney

12/11/2021

ASWAN MUSEUM IN ELEPHANTINE ISLAND TO UNDERGO RESTORATIONS

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The Aswan Museum on the idyllic Elephantine Island will be renovated after being closed for ten years. Established in 1898, the museum was initially designed as a resting place for the English engineer Sir William Willcocks, before being converted into a museum in 1917.

One of the oldest regional museums in Egypt, the Aswan Museum housed an inimitable assortment of artifacts from Nubia and other findings discovered on Elephantine Island.

The development of the museum will include the restoration of the building, the display in the annex (the building currently open to visitors) and the surrounding garden. The Museum’s Display Scenario Committee is currently curating the pieces that will be displayed, which will include artefacts discovered by the German archaeological missions’ work on Elephantine Island since 1969.

12/11/2021

09/11/2021

FOREIGNERS WILL SOON BE ABLE TO REFUND VAT ON PURCHASES OVER EGP 1500 WITH A NEW ELECTRONIC SYSTEM AT ALL PORTS

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The Ministry of Finance is forming a commission to determine how they would establish an electronic system in all air, sea and land ports that will allow foreigners to recuperate the cost of value-added taxes (VAT) on all purchases over EGP 1500. The decision was made to encourage more tourists to shop, and will first be implemented in Sharm El Sheikh before the end of 2021.

The new electronic system is part of a larger push to modernise the tax system, which includes proposals to transition to electronic returns and invoices.

09/11/2021

TOMB OF RAMSES II’S HEAD OF TREASURY DISCOVERED IN SAQQARA ALONG WITH TOMB OF SEVERAL HIGH-RANKING OFFICIALS

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During excavation work at the Saqqara necropolis, an archaeological mission from Cairo University has uncovered the tomb of the head of treasury during the reign of King Ramses II. The discovery is quite significant given the several venerable titles given to the treasurer, Ptah-M-Wia, including head of treasury, supervisor of cattle and overseer of sacrifices to the deities at Ramses II temple in Thebes.

Along with the tomb of Ptah-M-Wia, the mission made a number of discoveries including the tombs of high-ranking officials from the New Kingdom, most notably the tomb of famed military commander Harmhab, the tomb of the mayor of Memphis, Ptah-Mas, the royal ambassador to foreign countries, Basir, and the supreme commander of the army, Eurkhi.

The architecture and design of the tomb of Ptah-M-Wia is reminiscent of its neighbouring tombs, following the style known as a ‘tomb-temple’. It has an edifice for an entrance, engraved with scenes depicting the tomb’s owner. The entrance leads into a hall with painted walls, with a shrine for deities headed by a pyramidion at the end. A number of stone blocks and several Osirian columns were found buried under the sand. These pieces will be studied and then returned to their original places inside the tomb.

Cairo University’s excavation work in Saqqara began in the 1970s, beginning with the New Kingdom cemetery south of the road that led to King Unas’ pyramids. From 1983 to 1986, the mission, headed by Sayed Tawfiq, uncovered a number of important tombs dating back to the Ramesside period. The current mission started in 2005 and is headed by Dr Ola El-Egazay.

09/11/2021

LUXOR’S BIGGEST MEDICAL TOURISM PROJECT LAUNCHES AHEAD OF RAMS ROAD REOPENING

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The General Authority of Healthcare in Egypt is promoting the largest medical tourism programme to date for hospitals in Luxor. Set to launch alongside World Cities Day, as well as the grand reopening of the Rams Road, an avenue of sphinxes between the recently restored Luxor Temple and Karnak Temple, the medical tourism programme hopes to send out a message to the world: in Egypt, you’re taken care of.

The authority signed a cooperation protocol with one of the world’s leading national medical tourism companies, so that the medical tourism programme could be implemented with regulatory mechanisms based on international standards. At the same time, Luxor is working on introducing air and river ambulance services for critical cases in need of express transportation.

12/03/2020

Dr.Zahi Hawass is searching for the tombs of Kings Tuthmosis II and Ramses VIII, as well as those of Queens, Princes and Princesses of the 18th Dynasty at the Valley of the Kings

Zahi Hawass: The uncovered inscriptions refer to builders of the royal tombs

Today, during inspecting his excavations in the Valley of the Kings, renowned Egyptologist Dr. Zahi Hawass announces that he is searching for the tombs of Kings Thutmose II, Amenhotep I, and Ramses VIII as well as queens, princes and princesses of the 18th Dynasty.

The mission is working at the Valley of the Kings, headed by Dr. Zahi Hawass, has unearthed 200 ostroka, which are stone and clay pieces bearing hieroglyphic and hieratic inscriptions pointing to the workers who built the royal tombs.

Hawass asserted that today during his inspection tour at the Valley of the Kings, he saw nearly 3,000 tourists from different nationalities, from France, Germany, America, Japan, and other countries, adding that life in Luxor is as normal as it always be.

Hawass also met with a Japanese group of tourists who insisting to take memorial photos with him.

Hawass explains that the Egyptian government is taking all precaution measures to safeguard the tourists who are promenading freely among the city’s different archaeological sites.

12/03/2020

Selfie at the end of the day

12/03/2020

The beautiful doctor’s ❤️❤️❤️

12/03/2020

Together challenge korona!