EGYPT

Tourism is the most important sources of national income in Egypt and the Egyptian people, accustomed to the presence of tourists in their midst since antiquity. Featuring Egypt abundance of tourist attractions of all kinds, because of the abundance of temples and Pharaonic monuments that have been take care of it and invested to tourist attraction, is also available tourism infrastructure, which includes five-star hotels, tourist villages and tourist agencies and offices, aviation, and is the accumulation of tourism in general in Cairo and Alexandria and the Red Sea Governorate, Hurghada and Sinai, especially South Sinai in Sharm el-Sheikh, Dahab and Nuweiba where sports sport diving that attracts tourists from around the world and especially from Germany and Italy from the fans of this type of sports, as Egypt is characterized by its proximity Ali Alalhaab rare reefs in the Red Sea and fish species for which the festivals and competitions fishing yacht, which comes to fishing enthusiasts of Egyptians and foreigners.

1 tourist attractions in the area of ​​Greater Cairo

 Pyramids of Giza

Djizho Pyramids of Egypt Pyramids of Giza Plateau is located in Giza, Egypt on the west bank of the River Nile, built by some 25 centuries BC, about 2480 to 2550 BC. M, which is about three pyramids are Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure.

And the pyramids is a cemetery ownership of each of which bears the name of the king who built and buried it after his death, building a pyramid here is the stage of the evolution of building tombs in ancient Egypt, which started a hole small turned into a chamber under the ground and then to several rooms topped by a terrace and then evolved to take the form of pyramid by architect Aamahotb Minister pharaoh Zoser in the Third Dynasty and the pyramid is located in the necropolis of Saqqara, followed by the attempts of King Snefru the founder of the Fourth Dynasty to build a pyramid full, but the back of pyramids is Salimi shape and are located at Dahshur one flattened base and the other took the form smaller after half the size, and was able to engineer engineer Hmeono King Cheops to reach the ideal form of a pyramid and the construction of the pyramid of Cheops in Giza, on an area of ​​13 acres and was followed by a pyramid of Khafra and Menkaure.

 - Egyptian Museum

Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Contains the largest collection of ancient Egyptian monuments, and competed the British Museum and the Louvre and the Metropolitan Museum (New York). Lies and the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square in the heart of Cairo since 1906, contains a museum exhibit on the impact of the Pharaonic 136 thousand, in addition to hundreds of thousands of effects found in warehouses.

Sections of the museum:

Effects divided by their importance or the amount provided Kalksm the sixth and seventh, while the arrangements the second and third and the fourth was on the basis of chronological order and takes into account the main effects included in the department and other key periods in another section, and is as follows [1]:

Section one: the effects of King Tutankhamun are the outcome of the discovery of a cemetery and one for a period of time and one where the effects were more than 3500 pieces of antique gold in addition to the mummies.

Section II: the old state, one of the prosperous periods in the history of ancient Egypt, a period of building the pyramids of Khufu and the period during which the rule of four families in which a ruling, "the third of the sixth."

Section III: Central State.

Section IV: the modern state the period of the great empire of Ramses II and Tutankhamun and Akhenaten and Merneptah and Tuthmosis

Section V of the family "21 to 30" no access to the entry of Alexander the Great to Egypt.

Section VI: Department of papyrus and the currency, which were collected in which all the papyri.

Section VII: Section "scarabs."

 Pyramid of Saqqara in Badrasheen:

Pyramid of Saqqara royal tomb in history built between 2737 BC. M --2 717 BC. M. Located in South Saqqara, Giza at a distance of a mile from the cliff Saqqara.

Originally designed for the burial of Pharaoh Djoser by the Minister Amahotb in the form of six terraces above the tunnel descends to the burial site, the pyramid has gone through six changes in the scheme before the completion of its present form.