2025 Tour "Return to Amarna." Let's visit Egypt!

The History of Egypt Podcast

Dominic Perry

History, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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A new tour for February 2025 is now ready to announce and book. The tour includes a return to Amarna (Akhet-Aten), to explore the city of Akhenaten and Nefertiti. We visit some new sites, not seen on previous tours. And we have special permits for the tomb of Senuseret III at Abydos, and the tombs of Thutmose III and Horemheb in the Valley of the Kings. It's a great itinerary with a mix of famous favourites and new adventures. If you'd like to visit Egypt, come along in 2025! Website with itinerary and cost breakdown: The History of Egypt Podcast 2025 — Ancient World Tours. Questions about history/sites - egyptpodcast@gmail.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:25.0	Take a free test drive at oracle.com slash Spotify. Hello folks, Dominic here. It is time once again to ask a question. Who wants to visit Egypt? We are offering a new tour for February 2025.
0:47.8	The tour is 12 days long from Monday the 3rd to Friday the 14th of February. We are calling it
0:54.4	Amana and beyond because for the first time since 2019 we are returning to
1:01.2	the ruined city of Amana, the home of Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and the probable
1:07.1	birthplace of Tutankumun. Along the way, we are visiting several exciting locations, including some that are brand new to the
1:15.8	podcast itinerary. The trip is organized by Ancient World Tours and they have put together
1:22.4	a wonderful schedule based on my requests
1:25.3	including some extra treats. If you are interested here is the overview.
1:30.9	Guests will meet in Cairo where we stay in a wonderful modern hotel near the Giza Plateau.
1:37.0	For the first three days we visit the sites of the Old Kingdom, including the Great Pyramids of Giza, the Necropolis at Sakara, and, assuming
1:47.7	its open, the Grand Egyptian Museum. Within these sites will have special entry to the Step Pyramid of Netjerket Josa, the Serapeum Sepulchre, the Pyramid of Unas, home of the First
2:00.3	Pyramid texts, and much, much more.
2:04.0	After three days exploring these sites we depart Cairo.
2:07.7	Traveling on our air-conditioned bus,
2:10.0	we head south, stopping at the tombs of Benny Hassan.
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