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In the morning you will be met in the lobby by our fluent English-speaking, licensed guide and professional driver to transfer you to the day's venues, starting with the Kalabsha Temple:
- It was built during the reign of Emperor Augustus, to worship the god Mandulis, the Nubian sun god.
- According to research approved by the Ministry of Antiquities, the phenomenon of the perpendicularity to the Holy of Holies chamber in the temple occurred twice, on February 14 and October 29.
- It is the second largest of the Nubian temples after the Abu Simbel Temple, and one of the most important temples with a unique Nubian architectural style.
- It also contains a historical inscription illustrating the victories of the Nubian King Silko.
The guide will provide you with more and more about Kalabsha after the end of your tour and saturate you with information and enrich your thoughts with Egyptian antiquities, you will be transferred to the Nubia Museum.
When we visit the Nubian Museum in Aswan, we are drawn to the most beautiful piece, which is the museum contains five thousand artifacts representing the stages of development of Egyptian civilization and Nubian heritage. The museum’s external display includes 68 unique pieces of large statues and archaeological paintings of different sizes. Among the most beautiful and rarest of these displayed pieces is the skeleton of a human being 200,000 years old, which was found in 1982 in the Edkopati area in Aswan.
The statue of Hor Umm Akht is a distinctive statue dating back to the Kushite Dynasty 25 and is characterised by high artistic precision, showing the Nubian integration into the Egyptian civilisation. Horus took different forms in Egypt throughout the ages. His Egyptian name is Horus, which means distant because his symbol is the falcon, one of the forms of hunting birds. It also means “free,” meaning the face, the one above, or the highest.
The Nubian Museum in Aswan is a place where the fragrance of history and the richness of the cultural, civilisational and popular heritage of Nubia’s history throughout the ages are combined After enjoying the tour and taking photos to immortalise the memories, you will be transferred back to your hotel.
