🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Bubastis – Tell Basta (Cult of Bastet)
Old Kingdom to Late Antiquity (4th Dyn – 4th c. CE) · Egyptian (Delta Libyan dynasties)
Bastet cat-goddess capital – island red-granite temple and 100,000 cat mummies on 14 m tell.
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🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Old Kingdom to Late Antiquity (4th Dyn – 4th c. CE) · Egyptian (Delta Libyan dynasties)
Bastet cat-goddess capital – island red-granite temple and 100,000 cat mummies on 14 m tell.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) · Old–New Kingdom Egyptian
Karnak — Mut Precinct North Lake Ancillary (Luxor) in Luxor, Karnak, Mut Precinct, Egypt is a Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) temple complex attribut…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) · Old–New Kingdom Egyptian
Edfu — Horus Temple North Pylon Ancillary in Aswan, Edfu, Horus Temple, Egypt is a Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) temple complex attributed to Old–N…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Iron Age IIB (single-period) · Kingdom of Israel/Judah (Israelite)
Desert Israelite fortress (c.800 BCE) with 'YHWH and his Asherah' inscriptions and Bes frescoes.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Ptolemaic (237–57 BCE) · Ptolemaic Egyptian (Hellenistic Pharaonic)
Best-preserved temple in Egypt: Ptolemaic Temple of Horus built 237–57 BCE (180 years) after plan of Old Kingdom then New Kingdom prototypes, buried by Nile silt and desert sand until re-excavated by…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
New Kingdom 20th Dynasty (c.1186–1155 BCE under Ramesses III) · Egyptian New Kingdom
Mortuary temple of Ramesses III (1186–1155 BCE) modeled on Ramesseum, Medinet Habu is best-preserved New Kingdom mortuary complex with complete circuit walls, fortified Migdol gate inspired by…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Chalcolithic (4500–3300 BCE) · Chalcolithic
Temple of Abad Howe in Aswan Governorate, Egypt is a Chalcolithic (4500–3300 BCE) temple complex attributed to Chalcolithic culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Late Period to Roman (380 BCE–452 CE demotic last text; Isis cult active to Justinian 550 CE closure) · Egyptian Late Period / Ptolemaic / Roman
Island temple ensemble dedicated chiefly to Isis, built from 30th Dynasty to Roman (380 BCE–117 CE): Isis main temple, Birth House (mammisi), Kiosk of Trajan (renowned photographer kiosk), Gate of…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Period Late Holocene · Regional culture Temple-Universal
Tumulus Cemetery Temple 78 — Egypt Region 6 in Egypt Region 6, Egypt is a Iron Age temple-complex with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Middle Kingdom to Coptic (1840 BCE – 600 CE) · Middle Kingdom Egyptian / Ptolemaic / Roman
Southern temple quarter of Narmouthis — Amenemhat III Renenutet temple and crocodile pools at Medinet Madi buried 2.5–5 m.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Late Pharaonic to Late Byzantine (380 BCE – 8th c. CE) · Egyptian-Greek / Greco-Roman / Byzantine
Canopic Isis oracle town adjoining Heracleion — sanctuary and quays 5–8 m down in Abu Qir Bay.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Middle Kingdom to Late Roman (1800 BCE – 350 CE) · Egyptian / Greco-Roman Fayum
Crocodile temple quarter of Narmouthis 1–2 m buried at Medinat Ghoran — Renenutet birth-house and sacred lake 40×30 m.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Middle Kingdom to Late Roman (1800 BCE – 350 CE) · Egyptian / Greco-Roman Fayum
Crocodile temple quarter of Narmouthis 1–2 m buried at Medinat Ghoran — Renenutet birth-house and sacred lake 40×30 m.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Ptolemaic to Roman (3rd c BCE–3rd c CE) · Ptolemaic / Roman Egyptian
Lake Qarun crocodile temple town Dime es-Sobai with 320-m lion dromos to harbour.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional · Classical
Esna Temple of Khnum Hypostyle North Wall in Luxor, Esna, Egypt is a Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional temple complex attributed to Classical.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Late Ptolemaic to Roman (54 BCE–117 CE; zodiac 50 BCE) · Ptolemaic Egyptian / Roman
Best-preserved Hathor temple with 24 sistrum columns, crypt 'Dendera light' reliefs and zodiac ceiling (54 BCE).
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Byzantine to Present (Justinian–continuous) · Byzantine Greek Orthodox / Bedouin Jebeleya
Saint Catherine Monastery (548–565 CE Justinian I) is world's oldest continuously operating Christian monastery at 1585 m foot of Mount Sinai intra Wadi el-Deir.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Middle to New Kingdom · 12th Dynasty to 18th Egyptian
Serabit el-Khadim Turquoise Temple Sinai at Sinai, Serabit el-Khadim, Egypt is a Middle to New Kingdom temple complex of the 12th Dynasty to 18th Egyptian tradition, built c.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) · Old–New Kingdom Egyptian
Abu Simbel — Small Temple North Colossus Terrace (Nefertari) in Aswan, Abu Simbel, Egypt is a Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) temple complex attribut…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) · Old–New Kingdom Egyptian
Kalabsha — Mandulis Temple North Pylon (Nubia) in Aswan, Kalabsha, Egypt is a Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) temple complex attributed to Old–New Ki…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works
Old Kingdom to New Kingdom (2600–1100 BCE) · Egyptian Sinai expedition / Semitic workers
Serabit el-Khadim is the Middle–New Kingdom turquoise mine and Hathor Temple 2600 BCE–1100 BCE on Sinai plateau 850 m, 45 km E of Suez Gulf.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Byzantine (4th–7th c. CE) · Byzantine Christian (Feiran is biblical Rephidim)
Marsa Alam Monastery? Actually Wadi Feiran — Sinai Oasis Monastery in South Sinai, Egypt is a Byzantine (4th–7th c. CE) temple-complex attributed to Byzantine Christian (Feiran is biblical Rephidim).
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Old Kingdom to Late Antique (2700 BCE–7th c. CE) · Egyptian (nome capital)
Nome capital Tjebu with Ptolemy IV temple 18-column pronaos on high tell.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Old Kingdom 5th Dynasty (2494–2345 BCE) · Old Kingdom Egyptian (5th Dynasty solar cult)
Only two excavated sun temples of six built by 5th Dynasty kings, Abu Ghurab's open courts with granite obelisks (36 m) and alabaster altars (5.8 m) manifest Ra cult; Borchardt and...
