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By: Matthew Tonks - Web Adviser in the WW100 Programme Office. While training in Egypt, the New Zealand troops came to be dubbed ‘Massey’s Tourists’ because of all the sightseeing and revelry in which they indulged. Three South Canterbury soldiers posing in front of an Egyptian sphinx.
More than 60 people have been killed after an attack on a group of foreign tourists visiting a temple in southern Egypt. The tourists' bus was fired on as they visited the temple of...
Peak tourist season in Egypt runs from mid October to May, during winter and spring. From May until October daytime temperatures are relatively high, especially in Luxor and the southern parts of the country. Egypt is one of the hottest and sunniest countries in the world.
- Egypt Is Unified
- Greek Troops Arrive and Alexander The Great Conquers Persian Egypt
- Queen Cleopatra Dies
- Egypt’s Wacky Traditions Are Documented
- The Beginnings of Deciphering Hieroglyphics
- Roman Emperors Visit Egypt
- Long-Standing Pyramid Debates
- Thebes and The Blue Nile Discovered
- Nelson Wins Battle of The Nile
- Egypt Comes to England and Hieroglyphs Are Solved
King Menes unifies Egypt, in the process setting in motion 3,000 years of dynastic succession and cultural prosperity. c.590 BC – 332 BC
On the instruction of Pharoah Psamtik II, Greek mercenaries arrive at Abu Simbeland promptly carve their names into the leg of one of the vast statues guarding the entrance to the temple (presumably not on Pharaoh’s orders). Following this, Persian Egypt falls to Alexander the Great, who cunningly portrays himself as the liberator of the people, he...
The Romans arrive as conquerors (rather than tourists or royal suitors) with Alexandria falling to the first Roman Emperor Augustus. The last dynasty of Ancient Egypt – the Ptolemaic (Macedonian Greek) dynasty – ends with the suicide of queen Cleopatra and her lover Mark Antony. 56 - 25 BC
Greek geographer, philosopher and historian Strabo travels along the Nile to Philae, chronicling festivals featuring ‘extreme licentiousness’ and priests at Arsinoe feeding sacred crocodiles by hand. His descriptions of temples already half buried by sand were so accurate they allowed Auguste Mariette to retrace the exact location of the Saqqara to...
Roman historian Tacitus speaks to an elderly priest who had translated hieroglyphics into Latin and Greek and describes the text of a document detailing tributes from conquered lands. It’s a first tantalising glimpse into deciphering hieroglyphics 69 – 200 AD
Roman Emperors from Vespasian to Hadrian visit Egypt and the idea of a ‘typical’ tour - Alexandria, cruise on the Nile, Heliopolis to see the Temple of Ra, Pyramids and finally Memphis (close to modern Cairo) - begins to crystalise. In 130 AD Hadrian visits and leaves his own graffiti on the Memnon columns at Thebes. Not all Roman visitors are so a...
Dionysius of Tel Mahre, the Patriarch of Antioch and head of the Orthodox Church in Syria, scotches earlier theories that the Pyramids are grain stores by claiming to have been inside one of the Great Pyramids of Gizahimself and seeing a sarcophagus. Interest in all things Egypt intensifies, with great debate in Europe as to whether the Pyramids se...
French Jesuit priest Claude Sicard, a skilled cartographer, explores the Nile Valley extensively, becoming the first European to confirm that Karnak and Luxor were in fact the ancient city of Thebes. And in 1768 AD, Scottish explorer James Bruce arrives in Egypt for the first time and over the next few years explores far and wide, making the obliga...
Napoleon and his 38,000-strong Armée d’Orient arrive in Alexandria with nearly 200 scholars, botanists, geologists, archaeologists and painters in tow. The army defeat the Mamluks (Egypt’s latest rulers) but withdraw after his fleet is destroyed at the battle of the Nile by one Horatio Nelson. The subsequent publication of the encyclopedic Descript...
Egypt is beginning to attract tourists, tomb raiders and eccentrics such as Giovanni Battista Belzoni (aka: the Great Belzoni), who removes the vast granite Younger Memnon bust (weighing seven tonnes) from Thebes. It takes 17 days and 130 men to drag the statue two miles to the Nile, where it was promptly shipped to England. It remains there to thi...
Nov 30, 2021 · In the second half of the nineteenth century, the popular travel company, Thomas Cook and Son, transformed Egypt into the ‘ultimate’ tourist destination. This meant that tourists could travel to and experience Egypt, an exciting and unique prospect that led to unruly consequences.
Apr 28, 2024 · Best Things to Do in Egypt. 1. Visit the Pyramids of Giza. 2. Cruise on the Nile River. 3. Get a History Lesson in the Egyptian Museum. 4. Explore Historic Cairo. 5. Visit the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara. 6. Go Inside the Pyramids in Dahshur. 7. Visit Alexandria. 8. Relax in Sharm El-Sheikh. 9.
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Though mass-tourism ceased during the war, soldiers and diplomats occupied the hotels, bars, and restaurants. After the war, the British converted bomber airplanes into passenger saloons. Tourism's relationship with colonialism gives a new meaning to the politics of leisure in modern Egypt.
