Photo: Diego Delso (CC BY-SA 4.0)
A self-guided audio tour of the West Bank sites outside the royal valleys, driven between clusters: the Colossi of Memnon and the ruined temple of Amenhotep III, the Ramesseum and the fallen colossus behind Shelley's Ozymandias, Merenptah's temple where the Israel Stele was found, the painted Tombs of the Nobles at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, Huy's tomb at Qurnet Murai, the tomb-builders' village of Deir el-Medina with its Hathor temple and painted tombs, Seti I's temple at Qurna, Howard Carter's house with its replica of Tutankhamun's burial chamber, and Dra Abu el-Naga. Each site has its own ticket and the nobles' tombs are sold in groups. 23 narrated stops over about 10 km.
23 narrations, yours to keep — no subscription, no expiry. Works offline once downloaded, and if it isn’t for you we’ll refund it.
Going somewhere with no signal? Put the guide on your home screen first, then download it from that icon while you are on wi-fi — that way you download once, and it works in airplane mode with no roaming charges. Show me the order →
Every claim in this tour traces back to a named source — excavation records, the heritage authority for the site, and the primary texts themselves. Nothing is copied from other guidebooks, and anything we can't source doesn't make the recording.
Each stop is built from OpenStreetMap · 141 features in this old town (the field-surveyed mapping database behind Apple Maps), Wikidata · 271 cross-referenced entries (peer-reviewed structured records), the heritage authority below, and the primary historical texts where they exist.
Cross-referenced against Modern excavation publications · academic peer-review.
Every sentence is checked against those sources before it is recorded. If a claim can't be traced, it doesn't make the audio.
Every tour is reviewed by a person before it goes on sale. Stop selection, the route and anything ambiguous come back to the editor for a decision, and those questions routinely send a stop back for another accuracy pass. Nothing publishes on a machine’s say-so.
Spot anything inaccurate? Email [email protected] — fixed in the next pass.
Colossi of Memnon, Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III, Ramesseum, Fallen granite colossus of Ramesses II, Temple of Merneptah.
Sheikh Abd el-Qurna cemetery, Tomb of Khonsu (TT31), Tomb of Nakht (TT52), Tomb of Menna (TT69), Tomb of Ramose (TT55), Tomb of Userhat (TT56), Tomb of Khaemhat (TT57), Tomb of Rekhmire (TT100), Tomb of Sennefer (TT96).
Qurnet Murai and the tomb of Huy, Deir el-Medina, Hathor Temple of Deir el-Medina, Tomb of Pashedu, Tomb of Sennedjem, Tomb of Inherkhau, Mortuary Temple of Seti I at Qurna, Howard Carter's House, Dra Abu el-Naga.
Two seated colossi of Amenhotep III; Roman visitors, Hadrian's party among them, carved their names on the one that sang at dawn.
The broken colossus of the Ramesseum, behind Diodorus's Ozymandias and Shelley's sonnet of 1818.
A burial chamber under a painted ceiling of grapevines that follows the rock's uneven surface.
The vizier's chapel with the 'Duties of the Vizier' and foreign delegations bringing tribute.
Set Maat, the walled village of the royal tomb-builders, whose ostraca record their working lives.
Carter's 1910 house, with a replica of Tutankhamun's burial chamber in its garden.
Tap "Start Walking Tour" and allow location access. The map shows all 23 narration points.
Follow the suggested route or explore freely. GPS tracks your position. Reach a site and the narration plays automatically.
Each site has its own narration. 23 narration points.
Narrations play when you reach each site. No buttons, no track numbers. Walk naturally — the stories find you.
Premium narration that sounds like a documentary. Warm and knowledgeable, not a textbook reading.
Every narration is drafted, cross-checked against primary sources, then passed through a second editorial pass that strips unsupported claims. Dates, names, and citations verified.
See all narration points on the map. Tap any point to hear it early or replay it later.
Every narrated point in Luxor's West Bank — Memnon, the Ramesseum and the Workers' Village, each with its own narration.
Spend an hour or a full day. Skip sites, revisit favourites, take breaks. The tour adapts to you.
23 narration points, including Colossi of Memnon, Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III, Ramesseum, Fallen granite colossus of Ramesses II and Sheikh Abd el-Qurna cemetery. That is about 41 minutes of narration in all, and you walk between the stops at your own pace.
Yes. It plays in your phone’s browser as you walk: no guide, no group, no app to install and no fixed start time.
Three ways, all built in:
The map-tap option means you can stand anywhere — even at home before you travel — and play any narration. GPS just makes it hands-free while you’re actually walking the site.
No. Use the “Download for offline” button before you go, and the entire tour — audio, maps, narration text — works without any data connection. Tap-to-play and the map both work fully offline. GPS itself doesn’t need data; only the download does.
Add the icon first, then download from the icon. On iPhone a guide downloaded in Safari cannot be seen by the home screen icon, so downloading first means downloading the whole thing twice.
Putting it on your home screen — iPhone or iPad (Safari):
On Android (Chrome): tap the three-dot menu at the top right, tap Add to Home screen (some phones say Install app), then confirm. On Android either order works.
If you opened this link from inside Instagram, Facebook or Gmail, you are in that app’s built-in browser. It cannot add anything to your home screen, and a guide downloaded there is thrown away when the app closes. Open the link in Safari or Chrome first.
Two backstops. First, the map shows every site — just tap the marker for the place in front of you. Second, you can manually queue any narration even when GPS is off. The platform never assumes GPS works; it’s the convenience layer, not the gate.
The audio runs ~4 hours by car total, but you walk at your own pace. 23 narration points across the site. Most visitors take 2–4 hours; some spread it over multiple visits. Once you buy it, it’s yours — there’s no expiry and no subscription. Come back next year if you like; the link in your receipt always works.
One purchase covers one device session. Most couples share earbuds and use a single phone — the audio is paced for that. If you want everyone listening on their own device, each person needs their own purchase. We do not gate sharing aggressively; we trust visitors to do the right thing.
Full refund if you never trigger a single narration on-site. Partial refund based on how far you got. See the refund policy for specifics.