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10- Menia Tours Akhenaton's Capital
About the City
City Location about 350 Kilometer to the south
of Cairo, about 4 hours drive by van, Menia is in the same location where king Akhenaton in the New Kingdom started his major revolution in all aspects of ancient Egyptian life the revolution started by declaring that Amon and the other Gods should be abandoned and only one god
"Aten" the sun god should be worshipped and created a
new capital in El-Amarna, all those major changes were strongly reflected on the ancient Egyptian art style to be more realistic the figures were no more rendered idealistically and even the pharaoh was pictured with a strange elongated face, the art also became freer, lines were used in works of art that showed even personal
domestic scenes such as the king with his daughter on his lap. Also
in Menia you will be visiting Beni Hassan tombs famous with its
brightly colored painted scenes of domestic life, sports,
dancing and other leisure actives providing you with a detailed
picture of Egyptian life in the middle kingdom. No. of
Menia tours: 1
Tour
Please note
that all timings stated
Menia tours are the
average timings & they are totally flexible
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Menia
tours
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Over night tour (2 days) visiting
Menia City witch poses Tuna El Gebel tombs of the wealthy Greeks of Hermopolis, El Ashmounin (the remains of Thoth Temple the god of writing), Tel El Amarna and Beni Hassan.
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Description
Day 01 Breakfast meet your Egyptologist guide (7:00 AM), Drive to Menia (4 hours drive) then Visit Tuna El-Gebel, the cemetery of Tuna El-Gebel provides examples of the burial tombs of the wealthy Greeks of Hermopolis. At about the time of the occupation
of Egypt by Alexander the great (325 B.C.), Continue your tour visiting the remains of Thoth Temple the god of writing , the place now known by the name Ashmonin,
Then you will be transfer to your hotel; Mercure El Menia.
(5:00 PM)
Day 02 Breakfast meet your Egyptologist guide (8:00 AM) start your tour visiting Beni Hassan tombs they were quarried during the 11th and 12th Dynasties for local Princes of the area. The brightly colored painted scenes of domestic life, sports, dancing and other leisure activities provide a detailed
picture of life in Egypt in the Middle Kingdom. Continue your tour visiting Tel-El-Amarna
,Built during the region of the famous King Akhenaton
then drive back to Cairo for overnight at your Hotel at
Cairo. (5:00 PM)
Request this tour: Menia 1
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