🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Seila Pyramid
Old Kingdom, 3rd–early 4th Dynasty (~2630–2600 BCE) · Ancient Egyptian
Fayum provincial step pyramid on Gebel el-Rus (c.2630 BCE, up to Sneferu), 25 m base, 6.8 m high, four steps.
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🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, 3rd–early 4th Dynasty (~2630–2600 BCE) · Ancient Egyptian
Fayum provincial step pyramid on Gebel el-Rus (c.2630 BCE, up to Sneferu), 25 m base, 6.8 m high, four steps.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, 6th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Largest and northernmost of the three queens pyramids surrounding Pepi II at South Saqqara, built for Queen Neith, eldest daughter of Ankhenespepi I and Pepi I, and principal wife of Pepi II.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Hebenu (Ancient Egyptian: 𓎛𓃀𓈖𓏌𓍢𓊖, Coptic: ⲧϩⲁⲃⲓⲛ, ⲡⲙⲁⲛϩⲁⲃⲓⲛ, romanized: t-Habin, p-Manhabin, Arabic: حفن, romanized: Hafn) or Alabastron (Koine Greek: Ἀλάβαστρων πόλις) was a city in ancient…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, 6th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Easternmost large queen pyramid on Pepi I's queens street, for Inenek-Inti, eldest queen of Pepi I remembered as ritualist (title 'Great of Praises').
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient port
Old Kingdom 4th Dynasty (2620–2500 BCE, Sneferu–Khufu) · Old Kingdom Egyptian
Southern annex of the world's oldest harbour (Khufu) with 8 rock-cut galleries storing mortised cedar boats and 150 anchors, plus Merer papyrus dump. South mole stub now -1 m.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, 6th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Small queens pyramid south of Pepi I complex, built for Ankhenespepi III, daughter of Merenre Nemtyemsaf I and granddaughter of Pepi I/Ankhenespepi I, who married Pepi II.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, 6th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Southernmost queens pyramid of Pepi II, belonging to Queen Wedjebten, likely mother of a late Pepi II prince.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, 6th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Ka pyramid situated south-east of Teti main pyramid inside enclosure wall near queens pyramids, built simultaneously with main monument.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
El Matareya (Arabic: المطرية [el.mɑ.tˤɑ.ˈɾej.jɑ]) is a district in the Eastern Area of Cairo, Egypt.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Avenue of Sphinxes or The King's Festivities Road, also known as Rams Road (Arabic: طريق الكباش), is a 2.7 km (1.7 mi) long avenue (dromos) which connects Karnak Temple with Luxor Temple having been…
🇪🇬 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...
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom (3rd–4th Dynasty c. 2700–2560 BCE) · Old Kingdom Egyptian
Desert pyramid field with two enigmatic pyramids: Layer Pyramid (maybe Khaba) in stepped layers, and Huge unfinished Northern Pyramid with 21 m deep T-shaft (largest known) attribu...
🇪🇬 Egypt · Fortress
Second Intermediate to Saite (c. 1800–525 BCE; Hyksos–Ramesside fortress) · Hyksos / New Kingdom Egyptian (Ramesside)
Wadi Tumilat gate fortress claimed as biblical Pithom/Succoth, with Hyksos glacis and Ramesside Tjeku fortress of Seti I (Pr-Atum). Excavated by Naville, Petrie and Polish mission...
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Arsinoe (Ancient Greek: Ἀρσινόη) or Arsinoites or Cleopatris (Ancient Greek: Κλεοπατρίς) or Cleopatra, was an ancient city at the northern extremity of the Heroopolite Gulf (Gulf of Suez), in the Red Sea.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Contra Latopolis (sometime named Al Hilla or El-Hella) is an Egyptian temple. During the reign of Cleopatra VII, a temple to Isis was built opposite Latopolis, or Esne as it is now known, on the…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Al-Azhar Park (Arabic: حديقة الأزهر, romanized: Ḥadīqat al-Azhar) is a public park located in qism al-Darb al-Ahmar, in Historic Cairo, Egypt.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Herwer was an ancient Egyptian town in the 16th nome (Oryx nome) in Upper Egypt. It is mentioned in several ancient inscriptions dating from the Old, Middle and New Kingdom.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Predynastic to Old Kingdom (3200–2686 BCE) · Egyptian Naqada III / Early Dynastic / Thinite
Menes thinite capital c. 3100 BCE — Manetho homeland of Dyn 1–2, no mound found under 8 m Nile silt at Girga (5 km hypothetical).
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Kom Ombo (Egyptian Arabic: كوم أمبو; Coptic: ⲙ̄ⲃⲱ əmbō or ⲛ̄ⲃⲱ ənbō; Ancient Greek: Ὄμβοι Omboi or Ὄμβος Ombos; or Latin: Ambo and Ombi) is an agricultural town in Egypt famous for the Temple of Kom…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Dahshur (in English often called Dashur; Arabic: دهشور Dahšūr pronounced [dɑhˈʃuːɾ]) is an ancient Egyptian pyramid complex and necropolis and shares the name of the nearby village of Manshiyyat…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, late 6th–early 8th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Ancient historiographic pyramid attributed to Nitocris, female ruler placed by Manetho at end of 6th Dynasty, sometimes identified with Pepi II daughter Neithikret.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Apis (Greek: Ἄπις, named for the god Apis), was an ancient seaport town (Polyb. Exc. Leg. 115) on the north coast of Africa, about 18 km west of Paraetonium, sometimes considered located within…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Bir Kiseiba is a Neolithic archaeological site in Egypt, dating from approximately 11,000–5,000 BP, that lies approximately 250 km west of the Nile in Lower Nubia.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
New Kingdom to Ottoman (1500 BCE–1813 CE) · Egyptian, Napatan, Meroitic, Roman, Byzantine, Islamic
Sole major Lower Nubian site surviving inundation, perched on cliff now island in Lake Nasser, continuously occupied from New Kingdom fortress through Napatan citadel, Meroitic town, Roman fort…
