Giza Governorate

confrontation between two kings from the museum.

Groups head just outside the city, so we'll go into a little bit about what most people think of with Egypt, and that's going to be You know, the pyramids of Giza and the Great Sphinx.

So no trip to Egypt skips the pyramids.

You have to.

So what's the connection back to the Exodus story there?

Yeah, 100% agree.

If someone thinks I'm going on a trip to Egypt, the number one thing that pops into their head would be that image of the pyramids, right? So the pyramids of Giza, they were built centuries before Moses.

They're among the most powerful symbols of, you know, the ancient Egyptian might and kind of their use of forced labor.

They sometimes referred to rain as Nile in the sky.

Ancient Egypt consisted of two regions, Lower Egypt, the Nile Delta, and Upper Egypt, the Nile Valley, roughly between Giza and the First Cataract.

The Nile played a role in determining the unique character of each region because the ever-shifting waterways in Lower Egypt meant that transportation routes, settlements, and administrative regions were often forced to relocate.

The Lower and Upper regions were each represented by a unique Nile plant, papyrus and sedge, respectively.

Another obstacle to navigation is the Sudd, a large swampy wetland on the White Nile in South Sudan.

The Nile, in particular the stretch in Egypt, has been one of the world's most popular tourist destinations for millennia, and has been the subject of a vast amount of travel literature.

One of the most visited destinations along the Nile is the Giza Pyramid Complex, about 9 kilometers or 5.6 miles from the modern course of the Nile in Cairo, which has been a tourist destination since the time of the Greeks.

The stretch of the Nile between Cairo and Aswan has long been a popular destination for tourists.