Overnight Excursion to El Minya from Luxor

Minya, an Egyptian city nicknamed the Bride of Upper Egypt, is located in central Egypt, north of Upper Egypt, on the west bank of the Nile River. The city is the capital of the province of Minya and, administratively, the capital of central Minya.

Minya was the capital of Egypt from 1390 to 1373 BC. Akhenaten and the beautiful Nefertiti lived in the village of Tel el-Amarna in the center of Malawi, the seat of the worship of the god Aton, symbolized by the sun disk. Minya governorate was famous for its intermediate location between the tribal and maritime faces, and in the Pharaonic era, the first call for monotheism in human history was issued from Minya by Akhenaten. In the Greek era, the god Thoth, the god of wisdom and knowledge, was worshipped there, and in the Coptic era, the Church of Our Lady was built simultaneously with the construction of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem.

Therefore, an excursion to Minya allows you to immerse yourself in the profound history of Egypt, knowing a great part of its civilization. These 2-day excursions from Luxor to El Minya allow you to explore Tuna el-Gabal (Coptic: ⲑⲑⲑⲑⲑⲑⲓⲓⲓⲓⲓ) is a village located in the center of Mallawi, Minya Governorate, in the Arab Republic of Egypt and is the ancient burial city of Hermopolis. The village houses the tombs of baboons, falcons, and ibis sacred to the god Thoth, as well as the cemetery of Hermopolis and the tomb of Petosiris, high priest of Thoth, discovered in 1919, dating from the 4th century BC.

After that, we continued our adventure with a visit to Tell El Amerna was the new capital established by King Akhenaten, located forty-five kilometers south of the tombs of Bani Hassan in Minya Governorate. Remnants of the ancient capital still exist today. In the Middle Ages, after that area had been desolate since Tutankhamun changed the capital, the Amarna tribe came and lived there for a long time, including centuries, and after they were abandoned and returned to their areas, the area was named Tel el-Amarna because those who brought life back to it were the Amarna tribe and Tel because it was a desolate hill, but it became a city hill that can be inhabited.

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