Nubian Museum
Egypt is a popular place for tourists from all over the world to visit. Aswan is one of Egypt’s most important cities. This city has a unique shape, especially in the area called Nubia.
The ancient Egyptian word “Nbu,” which means “land of gold,” is where the name “Nubia” comes from. The Nubians’ way of life, their traditions, and the way they dress are all different.
The Nubian Museum is one place that shows how the Nubian people live and what they do. This museum is a very important place to go in Aswan if you want to buy things from Nubia or ancient Egypt.
How the Nubian Museum came to be
During the 1960s, when the High Dam of Aswan was being built, a lot of Aswan’s monuments were flooded by the Nile, and a lot of Nubian land also sank.
UNESCO helped Egypt build a museum to store and show off the Pharaonic and Nubian monuments. In 1986, the first stone was put down for the Nubian Museum. It opened to the public in 1997.
Putting together the Nubian Museum
It took 11 years to build the Museum. The Museum cost 60 million Egyptian pounds to build. It is 50 000 m2, but only 7 000 of that is the Museum building. The rest is a big garden. An obelisk from the Temple of Abu Simbel stands at the entrance.
In the garden, there are statues from different times in Nubia, a house built in the Nubian style, man-made lakes, and a minaret decorated in the Fatimid style. The museum has 3000 artefacts from prehistoric, Pharaonic, Coptic, Islamic, and Roman times.
In the middle of the museum is a 12-meter-tall statue of Ramses II. Around it are other monuments from different times. There are also 16 statues of Nubia’s well-known kings. There is a library and information centre in the Museum.
Where is the village of the Nubians?
The “Nubian Village” is in the city of Gharb Soheil, which is in Aswan, which is the capital of Egypt.
Aswan is about 350 miles south of Cairo, Egypt’s capital city. It is known for having some of the country’s oldest ruins.
From the city of Aswan, you can drive or take a boat to the Nubian Village.
If you have a car, you’ll either drive yourself or hire a taxi or driver to take you there. We strongly suggest that you take a ship. It’s just beautiful.
What style is Nubian?
The inside of a typical Nubian house is known for being small and quiet, just like most Nubian villages.
mud bricks, which are made of clay, hay, sand, and water, are used to build many brightly coloured homes in the style of Nubian architecture.
It is less likely to spread illness, cheaper, and the clay texture of the bricks is less affected by heat because all of the materials are natural.
The homes here have dome-shaped ceilings to help spread the heat of the sun throughout the building.
The people of Nubia also like to decorate their homes with simple but beautiful colours and, most of the time, drawings of things that are important to their culture, like boats, camels, and palm trees.
Field trip to the Nubian Museum
The Nubian Museum is one of Aswan’s most important treasures.
It draws a lot of tourists who want to see how beautiful Nubian culture and style are.
On our Nile cruise, you can see the sights of Luxor and Aswan and learn about Egypt’s great civilization over the past 7,000 years.
You can also look at our Egypt vacation packages and book the trip of your dreams.
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