🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Armant, Egypt
Armant (Arabic: أرْمَنْت; Ancient Egyptian: jwn.w-n-mnṯ.w or jwn.w-šmꜥ.w; Bohairic: ⲉⲣⲙⲟⲛⲧ; Sahidic: ⲣ̄ⲙⲟⲛⲧ), also known as Hermonthis (Ancient Greek: Ἕρμωνθις), is a town located about 19 km (12…
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🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Armant (Arabic: أرْمَنْت; Ancient Egyptian: jwn.w-n-mnṯ.w or jwn.w-šmꜥ.w; Bohairic: ⲉⲣⲙⲟⲛⲧ; Sahidic: ⲣ̄ⲙⲟⲛⲧ), also known as Hermonthis (Ancient Greek: Ἕρμωνθις), is a town located about 19 km (12…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock-cut
Old Kingdom to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE; peak 2300–2100 BCE) · Ancient Egyptian
El-Hawawish is the Old–Middle Kingdom cliff necropolis of Akhmim (Panopolis, 9th nome) on eastern desert edge, 800+ rock-cut tombs 3000–1800 BCE on 1.5 km wadi terrace.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Roman Imperial (1st–4th c. CE; peak Trajan–Hadrian 98–138 CE) · Roman (Imperial quarrying)
Mons Claudianus is a remote Eastern Desert granodiorite (quartz-diorite) imperial quarry, 700 m altitude between Nile and Red Sea, source of grey column shafts for Pantheon, Trajan's Forum and Villa…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Old Kingdom to Late Antique (2600 BCE–700 CE; temple Ptolemaic, tombs Middle Kingdom) · Ancient Egyptian / Greco-Roman
Qau el-Kebir (Antaeopolis, Antaioupolis) is Middle Egypt's great nomarch and late antique metropolis on east bank, capital 10th nome of Antaeus.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Ptolemaic to Roman (54 BCE–117 CE major phase; origins Old Kingdom c.2250 BCE) · Egyptian (Late/Ptolemaic, Roman)
One of Egypt's best-preserved Ptolemaic-Roman temple complexes, the 40,000 m² walled Dendera enclosure centres on the Temple of Hathor (54 BCE) with 24 Hathor-headed columns, famed zodiac ceiling…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient port
Old Kingdom 4th Dynasty (c. 2620–2500 BCE) · Ancient Egyptian (Old Kingdom)
Wadi al-Jarf on the Gulf of Suez is the world's oldest harbour, 4th Dynasty c. 2600 BCE, Khufu's Red Sea port for Sinai copper and turquoise expeditions.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Old Kingdom 5th Dynasty (2455–2425 BCE) · Ancient Egyptian (Old Kingdom solar cult)
Abu Ghurab Sun Temple of Niuserre (5th Dynasty, 2455–2425 BCE) is the best preserved of six sun temples (Userkaf and Niuserre survive).
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Middle Kingdom to Ptolemaic (c.2000 BCE–100 CE; major phase New Kingdom 1550–1070 BCE) · Egyptian Pharaonic (Middle Kingdom to Greco-Roman)
Largest temple complex in Egypt – 200 acres built over 1,500 years from Senusret I (1956 BCE) to Romans.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Gebelein (Egyptian Arabic: الجبلين, Two Mountains; Egyptian: Inerty or Per-Hathor; Ancient Greek: Παθυρις Pathuris or Ἀφροδιτόπολις Aphroditópolis; Latin: Pathyris or Aphroditopolis) is an…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty c.1479–1458 BCE · Egyptian (New Kingdom, Thutmosid)
Hatshepsut's Djeser-Djeseru (c.1470 BCE) – a three-terraced colonnaded mortuary temple cut into the Theban cliff opposite Karnak, designed by Senenmut.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Medieval
Bouldnor Cliff Mesolithic Submerged Floor North in Alexandria Coast, Egypt is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Medieval culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Predynastic to Old Kingdom (3800–2686 BCE) · Egyptian (Predynastic–Early Dynastic)
Fortified Early Dynastic town wall enclosing palace and world's oldest brewery.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Period Classical · Regional culture Temple-Universal
Harbour Mole Submerged Temple 39 — Egypt Region 3 in Egypt Region 3, Egypt is a Neolithic temple-complex with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works
Old Kingdom Early Dynastic–3rd Dynasty (2700 – 2600 BCE) · Egyptian Old Kingdom (Sneferu–Djoser period)
South wing of oldest masonry dam 2650 BCE 113 m long unfinished collapse in Wadi Garawi.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock art
Predynastic to Islamic (4000 BCE–1000 CE) · Predynastic Egyptian and later quarrying expeditions
Wadi Hammamat – Eastern Desert wadi between Nile and Red Sea dense with 5,000+ petroglyphs (Predynastic hunters, 4000 BCE ostrich boats, Pharaonic quarrying inscriptions Old Kingdom–Roman).
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Roman · Roman / Egyptian / Greek
Instant Græco-Roman show-city founded by Hadrian Oct 130 CE for drowned Antinous. Hippodamian grid, tetrastyle gates, 3 km colonnaded cardo, circus and temple to Osiris-Antinous. Greek boule papyri.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient village
Old Kingdom to Roman · Egyptian
Cliff sanctuary with rock-cut Hathor/Nemesis chapel, pink limestone quarries supplying Amarna, and 12th Dyn rock-tombs of nomarch Wahka with nautical graffiti. Miners' camp and Roman road station.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock art
Neolithic rock art (6500–3200 BCE) · Gilf Kebir pastoral (Saharan Neolithic)
North wall of Wadi Sura with Archers vs cattle battle scene.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
El Matareya (Arabic: المطرية [el.mɑ.tˤɑ.ˈɾej.jɑ]) is a district in the Eastern Area of Cairo, Egypt.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock-cut
Old to Middle Kingdom (2600–1650 BCE) · Egyptian (Hare Nome)
Nomarch tombs and quarry road with colossus-on-sledge painting (1900 BCE).
🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock-cut
Late Period to Roman (600 BCE–300 CE) · Egyptian / Greco-Roman
Hermopolis necropolis with 1-million ibis catacombs and Petosiris fusion tomb.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Late Period / Graeco-Roman / Byzantine · Egyptian / Graeco-Roman
Mudbrick gateway fortress guarding Pelusiac Nile branch, scene of Cambyses 525 BCE, Antiochus battles, Pelusium lions legend and Baldwin I death 1118.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Second Intermediate to New Kingdom (c. 1600–1450 BCE) · Theban Egyptian (17th–18th Dynasty)
17th Dynasty war capital south palace (80×50 m) with workmen's village 150 houses.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Pharaonic / Graeco-Roman · Egyptian / Greek / Roman
Nome capital whose rubbish mounds yielded 500,000+ Greek papyri (Grenfell & Hunt 1896–1906) – Sappho, Menander, Gospel of Thomas.
