Luxor Museum and Mummification Museum

Description

Experience a half day tour to visit Luxor Museum, one of the most rewarding sights in Luxor, and Luxor Mummification Museum displays human and animal mummies and tools used in the mummification process.

Highlights

Luxor Museum

Mummification Museum

Led by a qualified Egyptologist

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Family friendly

Ideal choice for families

What You Can Expect

Your Egyptologist tour guide will pick you up from your Nile Cruise or Hotel in Luxor in a half day tour to visit Luxor Museum, inaugurated in 1975.

The wonderful museum has a well-chosen collection of antiquities dating from the Middle Kingdom (2055 BC – c. 1650 BC) and continued through to the Mamluk period in Egypt (1250–1517 ad), mostly gathered from the Theban temples and necropolis.

There is a new extension to Luxor museum “the Glory of Thebes” inaugurated in 2004, there are two royal mummies of Ahmose I and Ramses I of the New Kingdom (1570 – 1050 BC), some fantastic collection dating back to the time of the New Kingdom.

Continue the tour to visit Luxor Mummification Museum, opened to the public in 1997, the small museum displays human and animal mummies, tools used in the mummification process, explaining the art of mummification, a practice believed by the ancient Egyptians to be a critical part for the eternal life, examples of the types of objects traditionally buried with the dead.

After finishing, you will be transferred to your Nile Cruise or Hotel in Luxor.

Entrance fees are not included in the price of any tours: We do not charge in advance for site entrance fees to add flexibility to your program as you may choose to skip one or more sites depending upon your interests.