best Full DAY TRIP TO AL MINYA FROM CAIRO

• At 06:00 in the morning our tour guide and driver will pick you up from your hotel in Cairo and transfer to private A/C the latest model vehicle to El Minya Egypt, a 4 Hours driving,

El Amarna Attractions Map and Tablets

• You will Visit Tell El Amarana (Akhenaton) was the Capital City of the King Akhnaton called by some the heretic king.
• Tell El Amarna Attractions Map and Tablets, Tell El-Amarna Tablets or as it called El-Amarna letters, these tablets are written by the ancient Egyptians in the Babylonian language and cuneiform characters. Tell El-Amarna Tablets are about 350 clay tablets date back to the 15th century B.C, they are found in 1887. These Tablets are distributed in different places in the world, 50 of them are in Cairo, 200 in Berlin, 22 in Oxford, and 82 in the British Museum; but there are a few of them as private property.

Royal tomb of King  Akhnaton.

• Then Proceed to the tombs of the high officials during the reign of King Akhnaton and the Royal tomb of King  Akhnaton.

The tombs of Beni Hassan

• You will visit also Bani Hassan which is small Village south of El Minya, Bani Hassan has the amazing tombs of the rulers of the old City. during the Middle Kingdom.
• The tombs of Beni Hassan, date to the reign of the Middle Kingdom in the ancient Egyptian history. These tombs were used as the burial place of many local governors of the region of El Minya during the ruling period of the 11thdynasty that ruled over Egypt for a period from 2134 till 1991 BC and the 12th dynasty that reigned from 1991 till 1759 BC.

Tuna El Gabal, and Hermopolis

• Tuna El Gebel, The old Cemetery with the tomb of Petosiris, the high priest of Thoth and the tomb of the Isadora,  El Ashmunein .which was a town of great importance as a cult Center of Thoth, the god of wisdom, healing and writing.
• Tuna El Gabal, and Hermopolis were the center of the worship of the god Thoth, the god of wisdom in Ancient Egypt, who was idolized as early as the predynastic period in Egypt. It was used as the necropolis of the fifteenth province in Egypt.

After the tour ends transfer back to Cairo to your hotel