Egyptian Museum & Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) Tour

Begin at the iconic pink-hued Egyptian Museum overlooking Tahrir Square, home to more than 120,000 artifacts collected since 1902. Your guide leads you through the highlights: the Narmer Palette that records the unification of Egypt, exquisite Old Kingdom statuary, and the gripping Greco-Roman mummy portraits of Fayoum.

After lunch, continue to the Grand Egyptian Museum, one of the largest archaeological museums on Earth, rising dramatically at the edge of the Giza plateau. Its monumental staircase unfolds a chronological gallery of statues and stelae, culminating in sweeping views toward the pyramids themselves.

Inside the Tutankhamun galleries, marvel at the boy king's golden funerary mask, his jeweled sarcophagi, chariots, and thousands of personal belongings displayed together in one place for the first time. Before returning to your hotel, pause on the museum terrace for the defining photograph of modern Cairo: the GEM framed by the pyramids of Khufu and Khafre.