🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Abusir Bana
Abusir Bana (Egyptian Arabic: أبو صير بنا), known in ancient times as Busiris (Greek: Βούσιρις; Coptic: ⲡⲟⲩⲥⲓⲣⲓ, ⲃⲟⲩⲥⲓⲣⲓ, romanized: pusiri, busiri, lit.
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🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Abusir Bana (Egyptian Arabic: أبو صير بنا), known in ancient times as Busiris (Greek: Βούσιρις; Coptic: ⲡⲟⲩⲥⲓⲣⲓ, ⲃⲟⲩⲥⲓⲣⲓ, romanized: pusiri, busiri, lit.
Islamic Cairo (Egyptian Arabic: قاهرة المعز, romanized: Qāhira al-Muʿizz, lit. 'Al-Mu'izz's Cairo'), or Medieval Cairo, officially Historic Cairo (القاهرة التاريخية el-Qāhira tārīkhiyya), refers…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Agilkia Island (also called Agilika; Arabic: أجيليكا, from Old Nubian: ⲁ̅ⲅⲗ̅, romanised: agil, "mouth") is an island in the reservoir of the Old Aswan Dam along the Nile River in southern Egypt; it…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Abu Madi (Arabic:أبو ماضي) is a cluster of prehistoric, Neolithic tell mounds in Southern Sinai, Egypt. It is located east of Saint Catherine's Monastery at the bottom of a granite ridge.
🇪🇬 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
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 · Ancient city
Hemamieh (El-Hammamiya) is a village located in the Sohag Governorate in Middle Egypt on the east bank of the Nile.
🇪🇬 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
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 · 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 · 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 · Archaeological wonder
El Matareya (Arabic: المطرية [el.mɑ.tˤɑ.ˈɾej.jɑ]) is a district in the Eastern Area of Cairo, Egypt.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Hypselis or Hypsela (Ancient Greek: Ύψηλή; Coptic: ϣⲱⲧⲡ), known to the ancient Egyptians as Shashotep, is an ancient Egyptian city and Roman bishopric, which was located near the modern town of Shutb…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Deir el-Gabrawi is a village in Upper Egypt. It is located on the east bank of the Nile, directly east of the city of Manfalut, in the Asyut Governorate with about 120 rock cut tombs, 16 of them with a decoration.
🇪🇬 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 · Archaeological wonder
Aswan is a city in Upper Egypt and the capital of the Aswan Governorate. The city of Aswan is among the oldest continuously inhabited cities, with its recorded history spanning over 2,600 years.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Heliopolis (Jwnw, Iunu; Ancient Egyptian: 𓉺𓏌𓊖, romanized: jwnw, lit. 'the Pillars'; Coptic: ⲱⲛ, Biblical Hebrew: אֹן, romanized: ʾOn; Greek: Ἡλιούπολις, romanized: Hēlioúpolis, lit.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Aniba was a village in Nubia, about 230 km south of Aswan. The place is today flooded by Lake Nasser. In ancient times it was an important town called Miam.
🇪🇬 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 · Ancient city
Hermopolis (Greek: Ἑρμοῦ πόλις), also known as Hermopolis Mikra (City of Hermes/Thoth Small; Latin: Hermopolis Parva), was the Greek name for two cities in ancient Egypt, both in the Nile Delta, and…
🇪🇬 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 · Ancient city
Anthylla (Ancient Greek: Ἄνθυλλα) or Andylla (Ancient Greek: Ἀντυλλα) is an ancient city of Lower Egypt, on the Canopus branch of the Nile River.
🇪🇬 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.
