Visit Grand Egyptian Museum

Tutankhamun’s gold mask, royal mummies and 120,000 pharaonic treasures in the 1902 museum on Tahrir Square.

The guardian lion of the Giza plateau.

Eleven kilograms of gold and lapis over the face of a teenage pharaoh, now in the Grand Egyptian Museum.

Three generations of a Cairo family from 1917 to 1944; Mahfouz's Nobel work.

Visit Cairo, Egypt's sprawling capital on the Nile. Explore the Pyramids of Giza (ancient wonders including the Great Pyramid, the last surviving of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World), wander through the Egyptian Museum (home to treasures like Tutankhamun's golden mask and mummies), and stroll the historic Islamic Cairo district (with landmarks such as the Al-Azhar Mosque and Khan el-Khalili bazaar).

Medieval quarter of a thousand minarets: the Khan el-Khalili bazaar, Al-Azhar mosque and the Sultan Hassan madrasa.

Visit the Great Pyramid of Giza

Stand by pyramids, sail the Nile, and snorkel Red Sea reefs of Egypt