Osiris Tours Blog

You could spend a week visiting the stockpile of museums in Cairo and still wouldn’t have enough time to explore them all. While most people think of Cairo as a bustling metropolis overflowing with energy, it’s also a vibrant cultural hub where the country’s heritage...

Who was the Boy Pharaoh, King Tutankhamun? Of all the names from Egyptian history, few names are as well known and yet remain as shrouded in mystery as that of the legendary Boy King, Tutankhamun. On your Osiris Egypt tours, you’ll learn all about the legend of King...

Westward across the glittering Nile from Luxor, in the valleys below the eminent peak of al-Qurn, ancient Egyptians of the 16th century BC established a vast necropolis for the then-thriving city of Waset. Known to the Greeks as Thebes, and to the modern world as...

We have some exciting news! The New York Times has selected Egypt for the number 17 spot on the annual list, “52 Places to Go in 2020.” Travel journalist Seth Sherwood writes, “the Egyptians are building like the pharaohs to finish the massive and much-anticipated...

“I have had a significant interest in Egypt for 40 years. We wanted a trip that let us explore the things I wanted to see and give my wife a full immersion into Egyptian culture and history. We elected to do a private guided tour. The reality is that without the...

Queen Nefertiti was one of the most powerful and mysterious Egyptian queens in ancient Egypt. She was a queen, the Great Royal Wife of the Pharaoh Akhenaten. In wall paintings within tombs and temples Nefertiti is depicted as an equal alongside her husband - much more...

History of the Nubian Monuments and Nubian People in Egypt What do you think of when you think of Egyptians? Do you think of the Egyptians of the past? Of the god-king Pharaohs that ruled? Or do you think of modern day Egyptians in tourism today? Drinking Egyptian...

See The Amazing Valley of the Queens in Luxor, Egypt In the sweltering hot desert of Luxor, Egypt there lies a collection of tombs that house the remains of some of the most powerful women in the history of ancient Egypt. This is the Valley of the Queens and it is a...

Christian Monuments and Monasteries in Egypt Today we will talk about the Christian Monuments and Monasteries in Egypt, when it comes to religion in Egypt, most of us tend to think either of the current dominant religion (Islam) or, especially in terms of tourism, of...