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RESERVATION FORM THE TOUR RATE INCLUDES: Introducing The Wonders of Ancient • Flights within Egypt. Surface travel by air-conditioned motor coach as detailed in the itinerary. Please make reservations for the following people: The Wonders of • Accommodations in deluxe hotels/ Sonesta St. George cruise ship or equivalent based Name #1 (Legal name, exactly as it appears on passport) on two persons sharing a twin-bedded room with private bath as listed or similar. • Meals as listed in the detailed itinerary, table d’hôte. Dear Members and Friends of the Oriental Institute, • Baggage handling for one suitcase per person. Name #2 (Legal name, exactly as it appears on passport) For over a century, the Oriental Institute has been one of the foremost academic institutions • All gratuities to tour managers, guides, drivers, and porters. The Wonders of working in Egypt. From James Henry Breasted’s expeditions in the early 1900s, to the • A $600 contribution to the Oriental Institute. establishment of the Epigraphic Survey in 1924, and down to the present day, we have had a continuous and distinguished record of research in the Valley. Our unparalleled scholarly Ancient Egypt Street address NOT INCLUDED IN THE TOUR COST: International airfare, passport and visa fees, excess expertise is the reason why you should travel to Egypt with an Oriental Institute Travel baggage charges, transfers to and from airports for tour participants arriving or departing Program. on flights outside of the tour dates, insurance, beverages, and items not on the menu. Whether this will be your first visit to Egypt or a return, we have the experience and access March 11 – 26, 2017 City/State/Zip code to show you what really counts. Our programs go far beyond the usual tours, calling upon TARIFFS: Based on foreign exchange rates in effect January 2016 and a minimum of 15 our own in-country staff and colleagues to give you up-to-date information about current Escorted by Professor Lanny Bell Home telephone Other telephone participants. All rates subject to change. research. E-mail address Our specially designed itinerary includes the most important sites from all periods of Egyptian DEPOSITS & PAYMENTS: A $750 deposit is required to book. Final payment is due history and even some “off the beaten track” gems. One of the highlights of the tour is the visit Enclosed is a deposit of $ ($1500 per person, payable to: twelve weeks before departure. to Chicago House, the headquarters of the Epigraphic Survey in , where you will meet Archaeological Tours) our staff of Egyptologists and artists, and hear about their vital work documenting the reliefs SINGLE ROOMS: For those traveling alone but who prefer to share with another, we will and inscriptions of ancient Thebes. Please charge my deposit of $ to my credit card. endeavor to work out congenial rooming arrangements. If impossible, or if a single room Your tour leader, Professor Lanny Bell, has been leading Oriental Institute tours to Egypt must be assigned due to the roommate’s canceling or incompatibility, or for any other for the last two years. Professor Bell’s familiarity with the sites, his vast knowledge, and his Name as listed on the credit card reason, even if at the last moment or while on tour, the single supplement or prorate enthusiasm for Egypt will make this trip the experience of a lifetime. I encourage you to join thereof must be collected. us!

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Saturday, March 11: surviving representatives of the Seven some of the hundreds of tombs of the nobles, built. This afternoon will be at leisure. flights to Chicago. Depart Chicago. Wonders of the Ancient World, the Pyramids spread over two square miles. These tombs are Hotel: M.S. Farah Meals: Breakfast of and the Sphinx. We will have an of special interest for their naturalistic murals Meals: Breakfast, lunch & dinner Sunday, March 12: opportunity to enter one of the pyramids and which give us an intimate view of life in Optional Alexandria Extension: Arrive in Cairo and transfer to Mena House to visit the museum where the remarkably ancient Egypt. We will also stop at the ancient Friday, March 24: March 26 – March 30 Hotel, located at the foot of the Great preserved remains of the Solar Boat of Cheops village of the artisans, Deir el-Medina, one of We disembark this morning and begin are displayed. the best-preserved town sites in Egypt and the our touring at the Kalabsha Temple built Pyramid. This evening we will meet with Dr. 4 days | $1645 (sgl supp $495) Bell for dinner. Hotel: Mena House Hotel subject of the television series “Ancient Lives.” in the reign of Augustus on the site of an Hotel: Mena House Hotel Meals: Breakfast, lunch & dinner Hotel: Luxor Hilton Resort & Spa earlier sanctuary founded by Amenhotep Your tour doesn’t have to end in Cairo. Join Meals: Dinner Meals: Breakfast & lunch II. The temple, which was later converted to a church, was originally dedicated to the our optional 4-day extension to the port city of Alexandria. We visit many thrilling sites Monday, March 13: CAIRO Thursday, March 16: LUXOR Sunday, March 19: LUXOR Nubian god Mandulis, who was associated After a morning flight to Luxor, touring Today we will drive north through villages of with . In the same antiquities park we will during our extended stay, including: We begin our touring with an exploration of Memphis, the first capital of a united Egypt, begins at the magnificent sanctuary of Amun- baked-mud houses and lush cultivated lands visit the relocated Graeco-Roman kiosk of Re at with its maze of monumental bordering the Nile to and visit the Qertassi and the shrine of Ramesses II from • The National Museum of Alexandria tells and Sakkara, the necropolis of Memphis. the story of the city and its place in Egypt At Sakkara we will tour the Step Pyramid gateways, obelisks, pillared halls, and Temple of , goddess of love, music, and Beit el-Wali. After lunch we will spend the subsidiary shrines. We will also visit Karnak’s wine. Although this temple was built largely remainder of the day visiting the Museum of through 1,800 artefacts including figures complex of Djoser which predates the Giza of Medusa, and a bust of Briniky pyramids and is the world’s first monumental open-air museum. The remainder of the day in the first century BCE, it occupies the site Nubian Civilization. building constructed entirely in stone. We will will be at leisure. of a much older building. On the roof of the Hotel: Aswan Movenpick Hotel Hotel: Luxor Hilton Resort & Spa temple is a plaster cast of the famous Zodiac Meals: Breakfast, lunch & dinner • Discover Alexandrian tombs, statues and also visit the Sakkara Museum, the smaller archaeological objects at the Catacombs Pyramid of Teti - a 6th Dynasty king whose Meals: Breakfast & dinner of Dendera (original in Paris), one of three circular representations of the heavens found Saturday, March 25: CAIRO of Mustafa Kamil, Kom el Shoqafa, and burial chamber is covered with Pyramid Texts Anfushi to ensure the survival of his soul, and the This evening we will have a reception at in Egypt. We continue to Abydos, where we giving us an opportunity to explore the bazaar, This morning we fly to , where Chicago House, the home of the Oriental will tour the Temple of Seti I, viewing the visit the Luxor Museum, the new Mummy tombs of the nobles Ti and Ptahhotep and the rock-cut temples of Ramesses II and his • Bibliotheca Alexandrina - built to Mereruka. Institute‘s Epigraphic Survey project. famous List of Kings and some of the most Museum, or relax at the pool. During lunch favorite queen Nefertari have been saved beautifully painted reliefs surviving from we sail to for the night. commemorate the Library of Alexandria Hotel: Mena House Hotel from the rising waters of the Nile resulting that was lost in antiquity Meals: Breakfast, lunch & dinner Pharaonic times, and the nearby small temple Hotel: M.S. Farah from the Aswan High Dam. The temples Friday, March 17: LUXOR of Ramesses II. Meals: Breakfast, lunch & dinner were built to honor the deified royal pair • Pompey’s Pillar - one of the world’s largest Today we will cross the Nile to visit the tombs Hotel: Luxor Hilton Resort & Spa Tuesday, March 14: CAIRO and to awe the , and that awesome monoliths commemorating the victory of the Valleys of the Kings and Queens. Meals: Breakfast, lunch & dinner This morning tour begins in Old Cairo. We Wednesday, March 22: CRUISE/ feeling exists today no less than it did 3,200 of Roman Emperor Diocletian over an Among the tombs to be visited are those will visit the Coptic Museum, Church of St ASWAN years ago. This afternoon we will fly back to Alexandrian revolt Sergius and the Synagogue. Touring continues of Tutankhamun and three other Monday, March 20: LUXOR/ Touring begins at the Temple of Edfu, a well- Cairo. selected from the tombs opened to the public with a walking tour in Islamic Cairo. This CRUISE preserved Ptolemaic temple of the falcon god Hotel: Holiday Inn Cairo Citystars • The Villa of the Birds, inside the extensive today. We will also visit the Temple of Queen warren of streets is lined with a multitude of This morning our luggage will be transferred . We then sail on to . Often Meals: Breakfast & lunch Roman theatrical and residential complex Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahri, one of the most fascinating architecture. We end our walk in to the new deluxe Sonesta St George, our called the acropolis of Egypt for its spectacular of Kom el Dikka the renowned Suq Khan al-Khalili. spectacular monuments in Egypt, and the floating hotel for the next four nights. We site overlooking the Nile, Kom Ombo is Sunday, March 26: CAIRO/ Hotel: Mena House Hotel Colossi of Memnon. will continue our touring on the west bank unusual for its equal dedication to two gods, CHICAGO Hotel: Luxor Hilton Resort & Spa Meals: Breakfast & lunch with the temples and chapels of Medinet Horus the Elder and the crocodile god . Transfer to the airport for our Lufthansa Meals: Breakfast, lunch & dinner Habu, the largest built by Ramesses III, and We will study the unique architectural features Included in this tour is a very private „ Saturday, March 18: LUXOR the Ramesseum, where the fallen statue of of this temple before sailing on to Aswan. after-hours“ exclusive visit to the Returning to the Nile’s west bank, we tour Ramesses II inspired Shelley’s famous poem, Hotel: M.S. Farah LED BY Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Enjoy the “Ozymandias.” We will have our lunch on Meals: Breakfast, lunch & dinner Lanny Bell received his Ph.D. in Egypt, as well as a groundbreaking chapter museum in peace and quiet as it was Alexandria board the Farah and, in the late afternoon, from the University of Pennsylvania, where on Luxor Temple in Temples of Ancient meant to be experienced. Take your Cairo visit Luxor Temple beginning at the newly Thursday, March 23: CRUISE/ he taught Egyptology and was curatorial Egypt, published by Cornell University Press. time to savor the detail of the Egyptian Giza renovated Avenue of Sphinxes, which assistant at the University Museum. In Professor Bell has also been a consultant Sakkara St. Catherine ASWAN museum most sublime treasures. Memphis originally linked Luxor and Karnak temples. 1977 Professor Bell began to teach at the for National Geographic magazine and has No crowds. No waiting in line. No We will examine the Roman fresco paintings Today’s touring includes the granite quarries University of Chicago and became field appeared in its documentary Egypt: Quest distraction. This unique visit is an where an unfinished obelisk remains ypt restored jointly by Chicago House and the director of the Epigraphic Survey of the for Eternity, as well as A&E’s presentation opportunity few will ever experience Nile River American Research Center in Egypt, as well embedded in its native stone. This immense Oriental Institute. For the next twelve Mummies: Tales from the Egyptian Crypts. because of the limited availability, and Abydos Red Sea as the open-air museum and blockyard, monument would have been Egypt’s tallest years he spent nine months a year at Professor Bell is a very popular lecturer and Dendera monolith, weighing over 2.3 million pounds at will provide a unique insight into one of Luxor conserved by Chicago House. Chicago House in Luxor. The activities of has been appointed three times to endowed the most important historical museum in its completion. We continue to the High Dam, Edfa Hotel: M.S. Farah the expeditions under his direction have lectureships of the Archaeological Institute ancient world. Kom Ombo a project which forever changed the Nile’s Khargha Oasis Meals: Breakfast, lunch & dinner ranged from epigraphy to excavation and of America. He led the 2012 and 2013 Aswan Tuesday, March 21: CRUISE/EDFU annual cycle. The morning ends with the conservation. An expert on the Luxor area, Oriental Institute tours to Egypt. Wednesday, March 15: CAIRO Lake Nasser Ptolemaic temple dedicated to Isis, known as his publications include articles on divine Abu Simbel This morning we will be at leisure in Luxor Our touring today brings us to the only Philae for the island on which it was originally kingship and temple and society in ancient