Private Rosetta Rashid Day Tour from Alexandria

Rosetta, or Rashid, sits where the Nile meets the Mediterranean, about 65 km east of Alexandria, and it is the town that gave the world the key to reading hieroglyphs.

This is where French soldiers unearthed the Rosetta Stone in 1799, the slab whose three scripts let Champollion crack ancient Egyptian writing. Your guide takes you to the fort where it was found and through a town that is effectively an open-air museum of Ottoman-era architecture: tall merchant houses of red and black brick, the old mills, and the Rashid National Museum. A short boat trip on the Nile shows the quieter eastern bank as it looked two centuries ago.

It is a relaxed, off-the-trail day of about 6 to 8 hours, well away from the cruise crowds.

Ideal for history lovers and anyone curious about the French Expediti