Tour To Luxor Museum And Mummification Museum

Your Nile Holiday tour guide will pick you up from your hotel in Luxor. Start with a private transfer 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) 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 to visit Luxor Mummification Museum, overlooking the River Nile, the Museum is a small yet interesting museum dedicated to explaining the ancient art of mummification. 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 finished, you will be transferred back to your hotel in Luxor.