The Pharaonic Village

[Qatar Son 333]

The Pharaonic Village
A Living Museum



Brief History

The Pharaonic Village began with a dream. Already famous for his rediscovery of the ancient techniques for making papyrus, Dr. Hassan Ragab had begun to ponder the possibility of a living museum with real people, actors in costume and in a realistic locale, taking the place of static exhibits.

And so in 1974, Dr. Ragab reinvested the profits from his papyrus rediscoveries and began converting Jacob Island into a detailed replica of ancient Egyptian life. His first step was the planting of five thousand trees to block the view of modern Cairo that surrounded the island. The first trees planted were weeping willows, sycamores, and date palms; trees easily identified in tomb paintings as a part of ancient Egyptian life. But many more plants, flowers, animals and birds also depicted in the paintings could no longer be found in Egypt, and some were extinct. Yet Dr. Ragab was not discouraged. He was already familiar with traveling great distances to find what he needed. Years before, he had traveled to the Sudan and Ethiopia to find papyrus roots for his earlier projects, and now he went out once again to seek plants and animals for the Pharaonic Village. He returned to Cairo with seeds, cuttings, and roots of plants that had flourished in Egypt thousands of years ago, and a special surprise, the famed Meidum Geese so often depicted in ancient Egyptian art, but long thought extinct by the modern world.


Site Map



1 Parking Area

2 Ticket Office

3 Hellenistic Museum

4 Gift Shop, Cafeteria, Houseboat

5 Pontoon

6 Nefertari Yacht

7 Village Harbor

8 Nile Trip

9 Mythological Canal

10 Papyrus Plants

11 Playground

12 Tomb of Tutankhamun, Ancient Arts & Beliefs Exhibit, Islamic Exhibit, Nasser's Exhibit, Art Center

13 Garden

14 Restaurant & WC

15 Horus Cafeteria

16 Administration Building

17 Pyramid

18 Coptic Exhibit, Pyramid & Sphinx Exhibit, Mummification Exhibit, Napoleon's Exhibit, Anwar El Sadat Exhibit

19 Temple

20 Nobleman's House

21 WC

22 Peasant's House

23 Ancient Boat Exhibit & Cleopatra's Studio

24 Lotus Garden & Cafeteria

25 Mosque

26 Ancient Industries

27 Scenes of Ancient Agriculture

28 Scene of Moses


I went to the Village myself on 12th of July, 2009.
here are some pictures i got from the trip that lasted 3 hours...

note that my pictures roughly cover only 1.5% of the whole village..

First thing we see before starting the boat trip



A small-scale replica of Abusinbul temple



Moses scene


Mummification scene


Small-scale temple replica


This stone inscription "a replica from the original one" contains the first reference of Bani-Israel this means that they arrived 2000 years after the pyramids have been built no earlier refrence of Jewish exsistence have ever been found, this clearly means that Bani-Israel are NOT the ones that built the pyramids.


these are just my pictures, i will post more pictures from the web soon

[midotoria]

thank u qatar son

[egypt69]

Thanks for the thread mate I went there when I was 6 lol, I remember it was really nice, and you really do feel as if you travelled back in time.

[Qatar Son 333]

Your wlecome Egypt69, one problem dude.. remember there used to be a pyramid under construction over there... guess what... its still not complete LOL just some thick bars of iron unmoved and onhold for 17 years !! Like OMG !!! this place seriously needs to be funded by the government or any private finance... ! this place is really important and needs to be improved and expanded.

Your welcome midotoria, nawar elthread.

[egypt69]

lol oh well, that's Egypt

[Qatar Son 333]

More pictures, this time from the internet....

The Entrance


One of the Egyptian gods statue on the boat trip (there are many more)


A peasant fishing


The village from the inside


This is the Agriculture part of the boat trip, it shows the pigeon towers


Poor mans's house at the tour (you get to eat feteer here =D )

[Cartel]

lol how did I not know this place existed

[abha.elb]

i visited this place when i was in egypt last summer
awesome!!
there are i think two museums one is about anwar sadate !!

[Qatar Son 333]

LOL, there are more than just 2 museums !!

Anwar alsadat, jamal abdulnasser, Islamic museum, Coptic Museum, Pyramid contruction museum, Mummification museum, History of egyptian presidents and rulers museum, automobiles museum etc.

[egypt69]

And military Museum....

[Qatar Son 333]

Originally Posted by Cartel

lol how did I not know this place existed

Incase you or anybody else is planning a visit...

Location
The village is located on the West bank of the Nile, on Jacob's Island at 3 Al-Bahr Al-A'zam Street, about six miles from the center of Cairo (see map), and not far from most of the hotels.

Opening Hours
The village is open from 9am to 6pm daily. In the summer months it remains open until 9pm.

Guided Tour
A guided tour of the village can last from one to three and half hours depending on what you wish to visit.

Entrance Fees
The fee for the trip varies with the itinerary and starts at $15.00 per person. Children under 4 years are admitted free of charge.



Here is a map of the location

[abha.elb]

Originally Posted by Qatar Son 333

LOL, there are more than just 2 museums !!

Anwar alsadat, jamal abdulnasser, Islamic museum, Coptic Museum, Pyramid contruction museum, Mummification museum, History of egyptian presidents and rulers museum, automobiles museum etc.

yes i visited also the pyramid construction museum, but it was all about guesses nobody knows the truth
the islamic museum is the one where u can see the mini-masjide al a9ssa and stuff?

[Qatar Son 333]

Originally Posted by abha.elb

yes i visited also the pyramid construction museum, but it was all about guesses nobody knows the truth
the islamic museum is the one where u can see the mini-masjide al a9ssa and stuff?

yeah thats where the islamic history and the masjid's models are presented

[abha.elb]

Originally Posted by Qatar Son 333

yeah thats where the islamic history and the masjid's models are presented

oh thnx for reminding me

[Chadoh25]

Cool!

[christos-greece]

Interesting and very nice photos from the Pharaonic Village

[xAbd0o]

I hear about it ALOT and I passed by it ALOT but I never paid it a visit

[karimmansour92]

i visited the pharonic village a few years ago.. it was great.. loads of fun and learning

[tgbtg]

nice...might go one day

[GodIsGracious]

I love ancient Egypt! Thanks for sharing!!!