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739 places in the atlas, 104 of them inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Behbeit El Hagar (Ancient Egyptian: Pr-ḥꜣbyt(.t), lit. 'house of festival hall', Coptic: ⲡⲁϩⲃⲉⲓⲑⲓⲟⲥ, Ancient Greek: Πααβηιθις) is a village and an archaeological site in Lower Egypt that contains the…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Necropolis
Helwan is a large ancient Egyptian cemetery with more than 10,000 burials excavated at the modern city of Helwan, south of modern Cairo.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Heracleion (Ancient Greek: Ἡράκλειον Hērákleion), also known as Thonis (Ancient Greek: Θῶνις Thônis; from the Ancient Egyptian: Tȝ-ḥn.t; Coptic: Ⲧϩⲱⲛⲓ Thōni) and sometimes called Thonis-Heracleion,…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Hu, Huw or Hiw (Arabic: هُو, Coptic: ϩⲱ, ϩⲟⲩ) is the modern name of an Egyptian town on the Nile, which in more ancient times was the capital of the 7th Nome of Upper Egypt.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Kafr Ammar (Arabic: كفر عمّار) is a village in the Giza Governorate of Egypt. The modern village is located on the site of the ancient city of Acanthus (Greek: Ἄκανθος; in Ptolemy, Ἀκανθῶν Πόλις),…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
The Central Field is an area of the Giza pyramid complex located to the east of Khafre's causeway and extending to the pyramid town of Queen Khentkaus I.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Kom El Deka (Arabic: كوم الدكة), also known as Kom el-Dikka, is a neighborhood and archaeological site in Alexandria, Egypt.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Per Nemty (pr nmty; House of Nemty), an Ancient Egyptian settlement also known in Greek as Hieracon and at the modern village of al-Atawla, on the right/eastern bank of the Nile River northeast of…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Al-'Ain al-Sokhna (Arabic: العين السخنة, romanized: al-ʿAyn as-Sukhna Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [elˈʕeːn esˈsoxnæ], "the Hot Spring") is a town in the Suez Governorate, lying on the western…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Cusae (Ancient Greek: Κοῦσαι or Κῶς; Coptic: ⲕⲱⲥⲉⲓ or ⲕⲟⲥⲉⲓ) was a city in Upper Egypt. Its Ancient Egyptian name was qjs (variant qsy), conventionally rendered Qis or Kis, with many further…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Apollonos Hydreium (Plin. vi. 26; It. Anton.) or Apollinopolis or Apollonopolis (Greek: Ἀπόλλωνος πόλις), was an ancient city of Egypt that stood upon the high road from Coptos, in the Thebaid, to…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock shelter
The Cave of the Beasts (also named Foggini-Mestikawi Cave or Foggini Cave or Cave Wadi Sura II) is a huge natural rock shelter in the Western Desert of Egypt featuring Neolithic rock paintings, more…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Cave of Archers is a rock art shelter of the Gilf Kebir National Park in the New Valley Governorate, Egypt. It is located on the south-eastern slopes of Gilf Kebir, 40 m to the south of the Cave of Swimmers.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
El Hawawish (Arabic: الحواويش) is the ancient necropolis (cemetery) for the city of Akhmim in the 9th Nome of Upper Egypt (UE09), in modern the Sohag Governorate, Egypt.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
human settlement in Egypt located in the western Nile Delta, Monufia Governorate
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
archaeological site in Egypt, with Old and Middle Kingdom Tombs
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
El-Amrah is a site about 120 km (75 mi) south of Badari, Upper Egypt. Archaeological discoveries in 1901 at El-Amrah, were the basis of what is now known as the Amratian culture, a Naqada I culture…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
El Sheikh Sa'id is a small village in the Minya Governorate in Upper Egypt. Situated on the east bank of the Nile, it is named after a local Muslim saint buried in the area.
