The idea of establishing the pharaonic village is due to Dr. Hassan Rajab, after visiting Williamsburg, the United States, which embodies the lives of the early American people. His idea is to reflect the ancient Egyptian pharaonic civilization in all its details in one place. The great and lived the details on the ground, and chose to choose on the island of Jacob in the province of Giza, Egypt.
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Work on establishing the Pharaonic Village
Work began on the preparation of the village in 1974, where it was planted more than 5000 trees of the species that were planted in the days of the pharaohs such as fringes, palm trees and willow to isolate the village from the manifestations of modern life surrounding.
Then the Pharaonic life was created, such as the huge temple (which later became the Pharaonic village slogan), the fields of agriculture, the houses of the nobles, the houses of the poor, the crafting places, the places of papermaking, the methods of mummification, The journey begins during the pharaonic village.
After nearly ten years of hard work, the Pharaonic Village was opened in 1984 and the Pharaonic Village continued to develop. In 1989, a model was opened for the Tomb of Tutankhamun, a replica of the original cemetery in Luxor. Museum in the village.
How to embody the Pharaonic life in the village
Around one hundred and fifty representatives of the Pharaonic village, dressed in pharaonic garments, perform their duties without paying attention to one of those present. There are those who plow the earth and the others make papyrus, and there are those who do embalming and others make pottery.
The Pharaonic Village shows the obvious differences between the houses of the nobility and the houses of the poor. The first is the multi-room, containing a storeroom for foodstuffs and servants' rooms, as well as a stable for animals. The houses of the poor consist of one room where all members of the family live.
The village also contains 12 museums, each of which tells the story of a period of civilization that passed through Egypt, including the Islamic Museum, the Coptic Museum, the Napoleon Campaign Museum in Egypt and Cleopatra's Antiques, as well as two museums, one by President Sadat and the other by Gamal Abdel Nasser, as well as the Museum of Medicine and embalming, which explains the steps of the process of embalming at the time.
The village also has a children's amusement park known as Tutland. It also has a children's education center that makes some simple crafts such as pottery and papyrus.