The town of “Bubastis” is one of the largest ancient cities in Egypt. In modern times Bubastis is situated in Sharkia province and is called by the local as “Tel Basta”, or the great idol, it takes you about 2 hours driving by a modern car to reach the governorate of Sharkia from Cairo through a newly paved road that connects the two provinces.
When you reach Sharkia you will have to ask about the road that takes to Zagazig city to reach your final destination and get to explore the monuments and what remains of the ancient city “Bubastis”. The graceful cat goddess Bastet, was the goddess of love and fertility. From the fourth dynasty onward the Pharaohs of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth dynasties and the twenty-second dynasty put their buildings and additions to the temple over a period of time over 1700 years.
Among the most important monuments in the Tel Basta region are the great temple of the god Bastet, and the monuments of the temple constructed by King Khufu or King Cheops who built the great pyramid, and after him King Bebe, from the kings of the Sixth Dynasty, and other kings of ancient Egypt and the Central State.
Cairo Top Tours can take you to visit Bubastis or Tel Basta and many more historical sites and museums in Egypt during a lot of very well-planned Egypt trips and Egypt Travel Packages and also through our Cairo Day Tours through Egypt Day Tours.