🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Hierakonpolis Locality HK6 Tomb 72
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Hierakonpolis Locality HK6 Tomb 72 in Luxor, Hierakonpolis, Egypt is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Abydos Umm el-Qaab Tomb U-j Chamber 3
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Abydos Umm el-Qaab Tomb U-j Chamber 3 in Sohag, Abydos, Egypt is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Thmuis (Tell el-Timai) – Submerged Mendesian Canal Port
Late Dynastic to Arab (c. 600 BCE – 640 CE) · Egyptian / Persian / Ptolemaic / Roman / Byzantine
Mendesian Nile canal port – quay 120 m and grain horrea at –0.5 m on migrated Mendesian branch.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Quseir al-Qadim — Southern Roman Anchorage Extension
Ptolemaic to Islamic (280 BCE – 1400 CE) · Ptolemaic / Roman / Ayyubid
Quseir/Myos Hormos southern twin basin — Roman concrete mole and Ayyubid jetty 0.3–1.2 m submerged south of main harbour.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Bagawat Necropolis (Kharga Oasis)
Late Period to Early Islamic (510 BCE–700 CE; peak Christian 4th–7th c) · Persian-Egyptian / Early Christian Coptic
263-mudbrick vaulted domed chapels 4th–7th c with Exodus frescoes above Hibis Persian temple 40 m.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Marea — Lake Mareotis Western Harbour Submerged (Phi loxene)
Hellenistic to Early Islamic (c.300 BCE – 700 CE) · Ptolemaic / Roman / Byzantine
Alexandria's wine port on Lake Mareotis — western harbour jetties 0.3–1 m submerged under Mariout floating silt, amphora town.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Antinoopolis – Hadrian's Nile Harbour City of Antinous, Sheikh Abada
Roman to Medieval (130–700 CE) · Greek / Roman / Egyptian / Hadrianic
Hadrian 130 CE Greek polis where Antinous drowned — 400x120 m Nile harbour grid city 350 ha with 18 m arch.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Tanis (Zoan) – Djanet Lost Capital
Third Intermediate to Late (21st Dyn 1070 BCE – 7th c. BCE; reoccupied Ptolemaic/Roman) · Egyptian (Libyan dynasties) reusing New Kingdom monumental
21st Dynasty Tanis built from stolen Ramesside blocks – intact silver-coffined royal tombs under Delta silt.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Narmouthis — Lake Moeris Temple Town (Medinet Madi / Kom Medinat Ghoran)
Middle Kingdom to Byzantine (c.1850 BCE – 600 CE) · Egyptian Middle Kingdom / Ptolemaic / Roman
Fayum southern temple town Medinet Madi — Middle Kingdom Renenutet temple with canal harbour quay 1–2 m under silt near Lake Moeris lagoon.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Little Saqqara Platform A — Saqqara, Serapeum (59-27)
Bronze Age (regional) · Bronze Age
Little Saqqara Platform A — Saqqara, Serapeum (59-27) at Saqqara, Serapeum, Egypt is a Bronze Age (regional) ancient city of the Bronze Age tradition, built c.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Hebenu
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 · Ancient city
Berenike (Bernice) — Harbour North Anchorage (Red Sea, Egypt)
Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban
Berenike (Bernice) — Harbour North Anchorage (Red Sea, Egypt) in Red Sea, Berenike, Egypt is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attri…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works
Aswan First Cataract — Unfinished Obelisk Quarry Canal
New Kingdom to British (1470 BCE – 1902 CE) · Egyptian New Kingdom with British Aswan regulation
Quarry slipway and basin 150 m to float 42 m Unfinished Obelisk and blocks to Nile.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Myos Hormos — Quseir al-Qadim White Harbour Extension
Ptolemaic to Roman (300 BCE–400 CE) · Ptolemaic–Roman Indian Ocean port
Myos Hormos — Quseir al-Qadim White Harbour Extension in Red Sea Governorate, Egypt is a Ptolemaic to Roman (300 BCE–400 CE) ancient-city attributed to Ptolemaic–Roman Indian Ocean port.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Susa Acropole Temple Platform — Giza Plateau (Giza)
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
Susa Acropole Temple Platform in Giza Plateau, Egypt is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Classical culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Angel Mounds Temple Mound North — Saqqara (Saqqara)
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Classical
Angel Mounds Temple Mound North in Saqqara, Egypt is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) ancient city attributed to Classical culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Leontopolis (Tell el-Muqdam / Taremu)
Old Kingdom to Ptolemaic · Egyptian
Lion-god Mahes capital with huge enclosure 1000×800 m and red granite naos of Osorkon II; claimed rival Onias temple at Leontopolis. Dense Late Period lion cemetery with animal catacombs.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Tell
Tell el-Muqdam South Suburb (Leontopolis South)
Hyksos to Saite-Persian (1700–343 BCE) · Hyksos / Egyptian (Leontopolite nome)
Hyksos-to-Saite suburb 600m south of Leontopolis with lion statues.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Antaeopolis (Qaw el-Kebir Temple Town)
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 · Ancient city
Naqada South Town (Khattara Settlement)
Predynastic to Early Dynastic (4000–2686 BCE) · Naqada culture (Egyptian Predynastic)
Predynastic town south of Naqada with copper-axe cemetery.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Zawiyet el-Aryan (Giza) – Unfinished Pyramid Field
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 · Ancient city
Arsinoe (Gulf of Suez)
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 · Ancient city
Herwer
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
Thinis – Lost Capital of the Thinite Nome, Abydos Region
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).