Giza and Saqqara, Egypt: World's Greatest Places 2023

Find out why Giza is one of the World's Greatest Places of 2023

fter years of delay, the new Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza is finally open. A 3,200-year-old, 36-foot-tall colossus of Ramesses the Great towers beneath the skylights in GEM’s immense angular atrium. Flights to the new Sphinx International Airport, 40 minutes from GEM, began in November, and the museum is initially open under a “trial special operations period,” but all 12 exhibition halls will fully open later in 2023. The 5.

More recently found artifacts are in GEM, too, including antiquities from 14 miles south in Saqqara like the first scroll discovery credited to an Egyptian, the 52-foot-long Waziri Papyrus. Tourist buses pass by Saqqara’s active excavation sites—megatombs of animal and human mummies—when they visit the 4,700-year-old Step Pyramid of Djoser, called the oldest pyramid, which was recently reopened after extensive restoration.

Choose your Egypt tour carefully: all visit Giza but few stop in Saqqara. Trafalgar and Viking do, and Viking launches its new Nile ship,

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