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Use the form below to request a site briefing, itinerary document, or advisory consultation. Describe your travel dates and sites of interest — the more context you provide, the more useful our first response will be.
Our advisory team handles a focused range of requests — site research, itinerary planning, and live consultations. The questions below help us understand your project from the first message, avoiding unnecessary back-and-forth.
Trip Context
Tell us when you plan to visit Egypt and how many days you have available. Seasonal factors significantly affect our routing and timing recommendations — summer temperatures in Upper Egypt, autumn crowd peaks, and winter access conditions at certain sites all differ substantially. Knowing your travel window lets us incorporate relevant seasonal advice from the first document.
Site Selection
List the specific sites, monuments, or museum collections you intend to visit, or the region you will be based in. If you are unsure which sites to prioritise — particularly if visiting for the first time — include your general interests (ancient tombs, temples, museum collections, desert sites) and we will suggest an appropriate selection as part of our initial response.
Background Level
Our briefings are calibrated to the reader's background. A first-time visitor benefits from different depth and structure than a researcher returning for the fourth time. Indicate whether you have visited Egypt before, whether you have formal study in Egyptology or archaeology, and whether you need practical visitor information or scholarly-level analysis — or both.
In-person visits by appointment only. Office hours: Sunday–Thursday, 09:00–17:00 EET.
Phone: +20 2 2576 4830
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Phone line staffed Sunday–Thursday, 09:00–16:30 EET. Email responses within one business day.
Email and form submissions: within one business day.
Phone: answered directly during office hours; voicemail outside hours with callback within one business day.
Egypt observes Friday–Saturday weekends. Messages received Thursday after 16:00 receive a reply on Sunday morning.
After we receive your message, a Cairo-based advisor reviews your request and replies with a proposed service scope, delivery timeline, and invoice. You do not commit to anything by sending the form — it is simply the first step in the conversation.
For Scholar plan bookings, we will also propose consultation time slots with the most relevant specialist for your sites of interest.
Copies of registration documents available on request from our Cairo office.
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We are a specialist service, not a general travel agency. These are the kinds of requests our Cairo team addresses most effectively.
First-time visitor
A reader planning their first Egypt trip wanted to understand whether to base themselves in Cairo or Luxor, which sites to prioritise against which to skip on a first visit, and whether the standard Nile cruise made sense for their interests. Our Researcher plan provided a day-by-day itinerary covering Cairo, Saqqara, the Luxor East and West Banks, Karnak, the Valley of the Kings, and a brief Aswan extension — with honest assessments of what could reasonably be absorbed in each day and what the crowds would look like in their travel window.
Academic researcher
A postdoctoral researcher in Late Period epigraphy needed to know the current access status of specific chambers in the Saqqara Serapeum and the available photographic permit process for academic documentation. Our Scholar plan consultation connected her directly with Karim El-Rashidi, who had recently conducted a site assessment at Saqqara, and provided a written summary of the SCA permit procedure, current chamber access, and the relevant contact names at the Saqqara antiquities inspectorate.
Repeat visitor
A traveller who had already visited Luxor, Karnak, and the Giza Plateau three times wanted specialist guidance on sites they had not yet reached: Beni Hassan, Abydos, and Gebel el-Silsila. Our Middle Egypt briefing series covered all three, with detailed transport logistics from Luxor, security clearance procedures for Minya Governorate, current excavation activity at Abydos, and the practical realities of visiting Gebel el-Silsila — a sandstone quarry with inscriptions from forty different pharaonic reigns, rarely visited and entirely uncrowded.
Documentary production
A UK production company making a documentary series on ancient Egyptian construction techniques required a detailed assessment of sites with visible quarry marks, unfinished monuments, and accessible construction evidence — including the Unfinished Obelisk at Aswan, the quarries at Tura and Gebel el-Silsila, and the exposed foundation courses at Lahun. Our Scholar consultation provided an expert walkthrough of each site's current access conditions, filming permit requirements, and the specific visual evidence available at each location, followed by a written production research document.