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5 places to sift through. Narrow by kind, country, period or how firmly each one is established — contested and pseudoarchaeological claims are labelled here, never hidden.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
New Kingdom to Greco-Roman (c.1400 BCE–300 CE; main 1390–1225 BCE) · Egyptian New Kingdom / Roman / Islamic layer
New Kingdom temple built by Amenhotep III (1388–1350 BCE), Tutankhamun, Horemheb and Ramesses II on Nile east bank.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient village
New Kingdom to Ptolemaic (c.1550–1080 BCE active; village founded by Thutmose I) · Egyptian New Kingdom (workmen community)
Walled village of skilled artisans who built and decorated royal tombs of Valley of the Kings and Queens (1550–1080 BCE).
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
New Kingdom 20th Dynasty (c.1186–1155 BCE under Ramesses III) · Egyptian New Kingdom
Mortuary temple of Ramesses III (1186–1155 BCE) modeled on Ramesseum, Medinet Habu is best-preserved New Kingdom mortuary complex with complete circuit walls, fortified Migdol gate inspired by…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty c.1479–1458 BCE · Egyptian (New Kingdom, Thutmosid)
Hatshepsut's Djeser-Djeseru (c.1470 BCE) – a three-terraced colonnaded mortuary temple cut into the Theban cliff opposite Karnak, designed by Senenmut.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Predynastic to Ptolemaic (c. 3500 BCE – 30 BCE; peak 1550–1070 BCE) · Egyptian (Naqada – New Kingdom – Late)
Twin to Hierakonpolis, El Kab's double walls 12 m high enclose predynastic to New Kingdom town with rock tombs narrating Hyksos expulsion (Ahmose son of Ibana biography). Temple of...
