This brand new tour was aimed at a look at the officials and artisans responsible for creating well-known monuments.
Egyptologist Dr Campbell Price had suggested the theme and planned to show our group some exciting new sites on our journey. […]
Read More… from Artisans and Architects 2018 – tour highlights
Most of us at some point have made the walk from Hatshepsut’s Temple at Deir el-Bahri to the car park; some have even ventured in to the tombs of Pabasa, Ankhor and Kheruef. Few though have ever had the chance to enter the incredible Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Dynasty tombs of Asasif. […]
….Back to the cars and a drive across the desert to ‘Anubis Mountain’ and the Tomb of Senusret III cut into the hillside. An adventure for those with no worries of claustrophobia.We took the descending passage to the vaulted chambers before taking the robbers’ passage past the sarcophagus […]
The adventure began in Cairo where we were based at the luxury Mena House Hotel and we headed straight off to the Giza Plateau with the chance to enter pyramids , mastabas and of course the solar boat Museum.
We could not leave Cairo without a visit to the Egyptian
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Dr Mustafa Waziri , Director General of Antiquities of Upper Egypt, gave the first talk. He was very positive and enthusiastic and gave us details of new finds, newly opened tombs, updates on conservation and forthcoming plans, including a proposal to have entry to the Open Air Museum and Karnak Temple as a single ticket. […]
A welcome return to Cairo for our AWT Pyramid Explorer group. Based at the luxury Mena House Hotel our guests were treated to spectacular site visits and special permits from the Ministry of Antiquities to visit areas closed to the general public. […]
Our privately chartered 5-star deluxe vessel, the SS Misr was built in 1918 and was once owned by King Farouk. She boasts exquisite public rooms and the friendliest, most efficient staff on the river. Our Luxury cruiser has just 24 cabins, including 8 suites. […]
One visit we made, which was in addition to the published itinerary, was to the library and resource centre set up by Dr Kent Weeks in Luxor. It is on the West Bank and down a narrow lane. […]
St Wilfrid’s Hall was the venue for our annual Ancient World Conference. This year we had just one full day of lectures. Our speakers included; Laurent Bavay, Pierre Tallet, Steve Cross, Chris Taunton and Jay Carver.
Peter Allingham, MD of Ancient World Tours, greeted our delegates […]
Philippe Collombert was the first speaker on Saturday morning. He began with a talk entitled New discoveries of the French Archaeological Mission in the Royal Necropolis of Pepy I. Work by the mission in this area has been underway for fifty years. […]
