Egypt Signature Series Tour

References

General

Reading

Cairo

General

• https://worldheritagesites.net/historic-cairo/

• https://www.historyhit.com/guides/egypts-cultural-unesco-world-heritage-sites/

Day 1 - 19/11

Check, Dinner and Briefing

Day 2 - 20/11

Memphis (Statue of Ramesses)

• https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/86/

• https://whc.unesco.org/document/154462

Saqqara Necropolis and Step Pyramid of King Djoser

• https://www.britannica.com/topic/Step-Pyramid  

• https://www.almendron.com/artehistoria/arte/culturas/egyptian-art-in-age-of-the-pyramids/the-step-pyramid-precint-of-king-djoser/

National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation

• https://nmec.gov.eg/

• https://periodicos.ufrn.br/espacialidades/article/view/28192

Day 3 - 21/11

Grand Egyptian Museum

• https://gem.eg/

• https://www.dezeen.com/2025/10/29/grand-egyptian-museum-heneghan-peng-architects/amp/

• https://www.wallpaper.com/architecture/the-grand-egyptian-museum-is-now-complete

Pyramids of Giza and Sphinx

• https://www.britannica.com/topic/Pyramids-of-Giza

• https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5845006

Day 4 - 22/11

Citadel of Saladin and Mosque of Muhammed Ali

• https://www.historyhit.com/locations/historic-cairo/

• https://open.library.ubc.ca/media/stream/pdf/24/1.0166156/3

Islamic Cairo, Mosque-Madrasa of Sultan Hasan and Al-Rifa’i Mosque

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamluk_architecture

• https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/gai/isl/page.php?theme=9

Coptic Cairo and Hanging Church of al-Mullaqa

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coptic_Cairo

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanging_Church

• https://www.researchgate.net/publication/383524745_COPTIC_CHURCHES_IN_OLD_CAIRO_AN_ARCHAEOLOGICAL_ARCHITECTURAL_AND_ARTISTIC_STUDY

Extra places you might like to visit in Cairo

LUXOR

Day 5 - 23/11

Karnak Temple

Luxor Temple

Valley of the Kings

Day 6 - 24/11

Valley of the Kings, Tutankhamum’s Tomb

Queen Hatshepsut’s Mortuary Temple

Day 7 - 25/11

Temple of Horus in Edfu

Kom Ombo Temple and Crocodile Museum

ASWAN

Day 8 - 26/11

Aswan High Dam

Unfinished Obelisk

Philae Temple and Temple of Isis

Abu Simel

Day 9 - 27/11

Abu Simel temples

Day 10 - 28/11

Aswan

• Extra places you might like to visit in Aswan