egypt tours

 This beautiful Ptolemaic temple dedicated to the Goddess of Love, Hathor, is only a short drive from Luxor.  Here there are striking bas-reliefs of Cleopatra and her son Caesarion, the only temple in Egypt to portray this famous queen and her son.  Denderah is also the only temple in Egypt where the roof is accessible, to enable you to enjoy a view of the area.

 these Tombs were ordered by the Kings of the New Kingdom to be carved in the rock-faces of the

valley so as to be safeguarded against grave robbers. Most important are those of  Tutankhamun, Seti I,

Amenhotep II, Thutmosis III, Ramses III, Ramses VI and Hormoheb (Only 3 of them will be visited).

 About a kilometre and a half from the Valley of the Kings is the Val­ley of the Queens which today is called «Biban el-Harim». In the region, eighty tombs have been discovered there but they are badly damaged, some showing traces of fire, others having been used as stables.The tombs mostly date from the period 1300 to 1100 B.C.,

 One thousand two hundred years after Imhotep another architect, Senmut, won himself a place in Egyptian history by designing another architectural masterpieceQueen Hatshepsut who was more of a patron of the arts than a military commander, ordered a funerary monument to be built for her father Tutmose I and herself,