埃及旅遊與線路

Highlighted pictures and videos in below posts. May write details in future.
Our Egypt tour is amazing: cruising on Nile river, riding camels into Nubian (ancient tribe) town, riding horse carriages, seeing Egyptian temples (more than 3000 years old), riding hot air ballon over Valleys of Kings and Queens, visiting museum, staying in Mena House Hotel where Cairo Conference was held. We flew in from Taipei on Emerates A380 (a lot of free seats) and took a night train from Cairo to Aswan. SF to Taipei round trip only costed us $350 each.我們埃及之旅非常神奇好玩：坐遊輪在尼羅河上巡遊，騎著駱駝進入努比亞（古部落）鎮，乘坐馬車，看埃及的神廟（3000多年），騎著熱氣球飛越帝王和王后谷，參觀博物館, 住的旅館是當年開羅會議場址，從房間可看到金字塔。 我們從台北乘坐Emerates A380（很多免費座位），從開羅搭乘坐臥兩式的火車, 夜行到阿斯旺。 SF到台北往返只需350美元。
旅遊線路:Luxor and Egypt maps

The history of Egypt has been long and rich, due to the flow of the Nile river, with its fertile banks and delta. Egyptians built their paramids during Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BC) in Lower Egypt (north of Nile river around Memphis). Because of lootings, they built their tombs in Upper Egypt (around Luxor, Valley of Kings) during New Kingdom (1550–1069 BC). King Tutankhamun's tomb is the only one which is not looted. In 332 BC, Alexander the Great conquered Egypt and the death of Cleopatra (30 BC) ended the nominal independence of Egypt. 由尼羅河所孕育出的古老文明，四千多年前古王國的輝煌的金字塔時期，三千多年前新王國的鼎盛時期，然後歷經希臘、羅馬、阿拉伯民族的統治，幾經戰亂，幸好古文物並沒有完全毀掉，古埃及文明在一些探險家和考古學家中活了過來。

埃及之旅 Pictures 2018

Because we have many pictures, I am not writing up the details of the trip as in the past. But I want to show you more in videos with added ancient music (below posts). When friends suggested adding background music, I found that modern Egyptian music is basically Arabic and I had to find the matching ancient music. Below I uploaded some hightlighted pictures for you to view. 因為有很多照片，所以沒有像過去那樣寫出這次旅行的細節, 也許以後會寫, 不過我想展示帶有古老音樂的視頻（下面的帖子）。 當朋友建議添加背景音樂時，我發現現代的埃及基本上是阿拉伯音樂，我必須找到匹配的古代音樂。 下面我上傳了一些照片供你欣賞。

Pictures: (1) Mosque of Muhammad Ali - 19th century; (2-5) Cairo museum: King Tutankhamun, he and his wife, Anubis - 3ooo+ years, dwarf Seneb and his family - 4000+ years; (6) Mena House Hotel (Cairo Conference); (7,8) Khufu Khafre, Menkaure pyramids and Sphinx - 4000+ years; (9-12) Cruise ship, Sailing on Felucca (ancient boat), Riding camels, Nubian girls; (13-24) Temples: Abu Simbel, Kom Ombo, Edfu:HorseCarriage+Horus+Front, Karnak:Obelisks+Pillars, Luxor:Front+RamesessII+Lights+Pillars, Hatshepsut (female pharaoh); (25) Hot air ballons at Luxor; (26-30) Wall paitings in Ramesess tombs.

埃及之旅 Video 2018

In the Valley of Kings most surprising is seeing the 3000+ years old wall paintings in Ramesses tombs. I heard friends said they didn't get to see them or were not allowed to take pictures in the past. Below is the playlist for the trip and also can be played on Youtube by clicking Egypt Trip 2017 (up to 1080p HD resolution). The modern music of Egypt is basically Arabic. So I found some ancient music to match the video. If interested in the details of the ancient music, it is documented below each video page on Youtube. 在帝王谷最令人驚訝的, 是拉美西斯墓葬3000多年的壁畫。 我聽去過的朋友說，他們沒能看到或不允許拍照。 埃及的現代音樂基本上是阿拉伯音樂, 所以我找到一些上古音樂來匹配視頻, 如果對古代音樂的細節感興趣，它記錄在每個Youtube視頻頁面下方。

Ancient Greek Music From Egypt - Fragment 1, Anonymous (2nd C. AD):
Below is the video of wall painting of Ramesses VI tomb, next to Tutankhamun tomb. The gate keeper let me take pictures. 帝王谷是我們的最愛，二個月前才准許買照相票的旅客在墓穴內拍照，四面牆上及天花板全是色彩鮮豔的各式雕刻壁畫，展示幾千年前埃及人的生活，愛好，信仰，服飾，尤以拉姆西斯六世墓穴中最為色彩斑爛，遠超過中國敦煌壁畫。

The oldest music - Hurrian Hymn No.6 (A Zaluzi To The Gods), Anonymous (C. 1225 BC): See next post introduction.
We spent 4 days and 3 nights cruising the Nile river. Very pretty scenery along the shores and beyond is Sahara desert. We visited temples from the ship. 四天三夜的尼羅河遊輪是探訪埃及的最好時刻，好吃好住，欣賞美景，輕鬆的帶你來到幾千年的古蹟面前。

Ancient Music - Excerpts Mentioning Eros And Aphrodite, Anonymous (2nd/3rd C. AD):
We visited Khufu, Khafre(son), Menkaure(grandson) pyramids and Sphinx on Giza area near Cairo. 我們參觀了開羅附近吉薩地區的胡夫，哈夫勒（兒子），門卡爾（孫子）金字塔和獅身人面像。

Ancient Egyptian Music - inspired on the musical traditions of ancient Middle Eastern cultures:
Views of ancient Thebes: Nile river, Valleys of Kings and Queens, temple of female pharaoh Hatshepsut (hot chicken soup). 在Luxor乘坐熱氣球翱翔帝王谷上空，新王國時期各代法老王的陵墓己從金字塔改為深埋帝王谷，乘二十八座的大型氣球，眼野遼闊。 我們朋友曾發表過在世副的（埃及武則天）對哈姬蘇女王及她建築師的故事及她那美麗優雅聖殿盛極衰敗的史蹟。

Ancient Egyptian music - Isis + Anubis(some):
Egyptians trying to sell by throwing merchandises to tourists on board of a moving ship. 在等候通過Esna水閘時，會有埃及人把各種商品拋上郵輪，你若滿意則可將錢放入袋中拋回給他們。

現存最古老歌曲 Oldest music - 3400 years

The oldest extant song is “Hurrian Hymn No. 6”(above center), an ode to the goddess Nikkal that was composed in cuneiform by the ancient Hurrians sometime around the 14th century B.C. The clay tablets containing the tune were excavated in the ruins of the city of Ugarit in Syria in 1950s. Along with a near-complete set of musical notations, they also include specific instructions for how to play the song on a type of nine-stringed lyre. There are a few versions played by various artists. So far I could not download the one with lyre playing. May be I have to buy the CD. 現存最古老的歌曲是“Hurrian Hymn No.6”，這是對女神尼克爾的一首頌歌，在14世紀BC由古代胡里安人用楔形文字組成。 含有這種調子的泥版, 在1950年代在敘利亞烏加里特市的廢墟被發現。 除了一套完整的音樂符號外，它們還包括關於如何在一首九弦琴上演奏的具體說明。

Visiting temples Luxor, Abu Simbel, Karnak, Edfu, Kom Ombo:
Luxor (ancient Thebes) has frequently been called "world's greatest open-air museum", as the ruins of the temples Karnak and Luxor stand within the city. Alexander the Great claimed he was crowned at Luxor but may never have traveled to the south of Memphis. Abu Simbel temples were originally carved out of the mountainside during the reign of Ramesses II and his queen Nefertari and is a UNESCO world heritage site and was relocated in its entirety in 1968 because the construction of Aswan Dam. The double temple of Kom Ombo is dedicated to the crocodile god Sobek and the falcon god Horus the Elder. Edfu temple is dedicated to the falcon god Horus. 盧克索（古代底比斯）經常被稱為“世界上最偉大的露天博物館”，有卡納克和盧克索神廟遺址位於城市內。阿布辛貝神廟是在拉美西斯二世和他的女王Nefertari統治期間從山腰雕刻出來的，並於1968年因為阿斯旺大壩的建設而全部搬遷, 是聯合國花了二十年拯救下的世界遺產。 康孟波雙神殿供奉鱷魚神和鷹頭神。 艾杜夫神廟供奉鷹頭神。

Now they let me download "Hurrian Hymn No. 6” with lyre playing under the condition that they can show their advertisements on Youtube. It is fine and I used this music for a few videos. 現在他們讓我下載用豎琴演奏的“Hurrian Hymn No. 6”，條件是他們可以在Youtube放他們的廣告。