🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Adrar Bous Pottery Hill
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Local Neolithic
Adrar Bous Pottery Hill in Western Desert, Egypt is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) buried city attributed to Local Neolithic culture.
🇪🇬 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 · 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 · Tell
River Cut Section West — Delta (Mansoura)
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Medieval
River Cut Section West in Delta, Egypt is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) tell attributed to Medieval culture. Systematic survey and LiDAR document architectural phasing and stratified deposits.
🇪🇬 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 · Buried city
Karanis — Western Granary Quarter at Kom Aushim West (Fayum West)
Ptolemaic to Late Roman (275 BCE – 500 CE) · Greco-Roman Fayum
Western granary quarter of Karanis 1–3 m buried west of main tell — vaulted horrea 30×15 m and canal sluice at –2 m.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Tebtunis — Southern Sobek Temple Quarter at Umm el-Baragat South (Fayum South) — v2
Middle Kingdom to Late Roman (1800 BCE – 300 CE) · Egyptian / Greco-Roman Fayum
Southern temple harbour of Tebtunis 1–2 m buried south of Soknebtynis — 70 m canal quay and mammisi at –1 m.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Theadelphia — Eastern Buried Village at Bat el-Harun East (Fayum West-Central East)
Ptolemaic to Roman (300 BCE – 350 CE) · Ptolemaic / Roman
Eastern granary quarter of Theadelphia at Bat el-Harun — 60 m houses at –2 m and 45 m canal.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Tell
Tell el-Murra
Predynastic → Old Kingdom Delta-Sinai gateway (3500–2200 BCE) · Predynastic → Old Kingdom Delta-Sinai gateway (3500–2200 BCE)
Tell el-Murra in North Sinai / Eastern Delta, near Qantara East, Egypt is a Predynastic → Old Kingdom Delta-Sinai gateway (3500–2200 BCE) settlement attributed to Predynastic → Old Kingdom…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Hierakonpolis (Nekhen) – Kom el-Ahmar
Naqada II–III to Early Dynastic (Predynastic to 1st Dynasty) · Upper Egyptian Naqada (protodynastic)
Protodynastic super-city (c.3800–3000 BCE) — largest Predynastic centre in Egypt (100+ ha at HK desert + floodplain), cult of falcon Horus.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Elkab (Nekheb) (Aswan Governorate, Nile east bank – opposite Hierakonpolis)
Predynastic to Ptolemaic (Naqada to Late) · Egyptian Upper Egyptian → Pharaonic
Walled twin of Hierakonpolis — goddess Nekhbet vulture cult centre and Predynastic to Ptolemaic town with massive mudbrick walls (11 m thick, 500×550 m) dated Early Dynastic (c.3100 BCE) to Late…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Tell
New Luxor Hilltop Inner — Luxor, Thebes (53-23)
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
New Luxor Hilltop Inner — Luxor, Thebes (53-23) at Luxor, Thebes, Egypt is a Chalcolithic (regional) tell of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c. 2500 BCE for hilltop and associated settlement.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Sais (Sa el-Hagar)
Predynastic to Greco-Roman to Medieval · Egyptian (Libyan → Saite renaissance → Persian)
Cult centre of Neith and capital of 26th (Saite) Dynasty (664–525 BCE) — Egypt's Late Period renaissance metropolis that reconquered to Aswan and traded with Greeks at Naukratis.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Tell
Old Luxor Citadel East — Luxor, Thebes (53-39)
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Old Luxor Citadel East — Luxor, Thebes (53-39) at Luxor, Thebes, Egypt is a Chalcolithic (regional) tell of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c. 800 BCE for citadel and associated settlement.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Tell
Tell el-Yahudiya
MB Second Intermediate (Hyksos) → Late/Ptolemaic Jewish · MB Hyksos → New Kingdom On → Ptolemaic Jewish community (Onias IV)
MB Hyksos rampart fortress with Leontopolis Onias Jewish temple (160 BCE) — type-site for Tell el-Yahudiya incised ware bridging Hyksos and Jewish Egypt.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Tell
Tell el-Yahudiya North (Leontopolis Annex)
Hyksos to Ptolemaic (1720 BCE – 73 CE) · Hyksos / Egyptian / Ptolemaic Jewish (Onias)
Northern spur of the classic double-tell of Yahudiya, with Hyksos rampart extension and Onias-period Jewish cemetery north of the temple platform where Petrie found inverted pots a...
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Jebel Barkal Pyramid North — Giza Plateau (Giza)
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Medieval
Jebel Barkal Pyramid North in Giza Plateau, Egypt is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) ancient city attributed to Medieval culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Courtyard House Complex East — Delta (Mansoura)
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Medieval
Courtyard House Complex East in Delta, Egypt is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) buried city attributed to Medieval culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Bakchias — Kom el-Atl Buried Settlement at Fayum Central (Umm el-Atl) — v2
Ptolemaic to Late Roman (270 BCE – 300 CE) · Greco-Roman Fayum
Central Fayum vineyard port Bakchias 1–2 m buried at Kom el-Atl — Soknobkonneus temple at –1 m and wine press.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Qadesh-Barnea (Ain el-Qudeirat)
Iron I–II (c.1200–600 BCE) · Israelite/Judahite → Assyrian Negev administration
Stratified Iron Age desert fortress (65 × 55 m) at the oasis spring Ain el-Qudeirat, identified with biblical Kadesh-Bar...