🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Abu Mena
Late Roman to Early Byzantine 4th–7th c. CE, peak 5th–6th c. · Coptic Christian / Byzantine Egyptian
Desert pilgrimage city of Saint Menas, 4th–7th c., now endangered by water table rise.
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🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Pharos Lighthouse of Alexandria
Hellenistic Ptolemaic 297–280 BCE · Greek (Ptolemaic Alexandria)
100-m Ptolemaic lighthouse wonder whose lantern guided ancient Mediterranean.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
El-Tod (Djerty / Tuphium)
Old Kingdom to Ptolemaic (2480 BCE–30 BCE; peak Middle Kingdom 12th Dyn) · Ancient Egyptian
Montu war-falcon temple at El-Tod with Sesostris granite pillars and Tod Treasure hoard.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Black Pyramid of Amenemhat III (Dahshur)
Middle Kingdom (12th Dynasty) · Ancient Egyptian
12th-Dynasty Black Pyramid of Amenemhat III at Dahshur — 105 m mudbrick mass c.1860 BCE, blackened core, first quartzite vault and basalt pyramidion, abandoned for Hawara.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Headless Pyramid
Old Kingdom, 5th Dynasty, ~2422 BCE (or First Intermediate 10th Dynasty) · Ancient Egyptian
Headless Pyramid (Lepsius XXIX) east of Teti at Saqqara, c.2422 BCE Menkauhor?, 52.5 m base, rubble mound.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Pyramid of Ameny Qemau (South Saqqara)
Second Intermediate Period incipient / late Middle Kingdom · Ancient Egyptian
Early 13th-Dynasty quartzite-sarcophagus pyramid of Ameny Qemau at South Saqqara — 52 m base c.1793 BCE with intact monolithic sarcophagus and canopic chest.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Zawyet el-Aryan Unfinished Pyramid North Trench
Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BCE) · Ancient Egyptian (Old Kingdom)
Zawyet el-Aryan Unfinished Pyramid North Trench in Giza, Zawyet el-Aryan, Egypt is a Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BCE) pyramid attributed to Ancient Egyptian (Old Kingdom).
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Hawara Pyramid Complex (Amenemhat III)
Middle Kingdom (12th Dyn) · Ancient Egyptian
Amenemhat III's mudbrick Hawara pyramid and Herodotan labyrinth mortuary temple.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Labyrinth of Hawara
Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty c.1860–1814 BCE · Ancient Egyptian (Amenemhat III)
Herodotus's 3000-room labyrinth beside Faiyum now rubble field.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Pyramid of Senwosret III (Dahshur)
Middle Kingdom (12th Dynasty) · Ancient Egyptian
12th-Dynasty pyramid of Senwosret III at Dahshur North — 105 m base c.1878 BCE, 78 m high, famous for queens' jewellery and hidden entrance.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Antinopolis (Antinoë)
Roman to Early Islamic (130–800 CE) · Roman / Greek / Egyptian
130 CE Hadrian-planned city for Antinous with 300-m hippodrome, triumphal arch and North Cemetery mummy portraits.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Abu Rawash Pyramid A North Substructure
Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BCE) · Ancient Egyptian (Old Kingdom)
Abu Rawash Pyramid A North Substructure in Giza, Abu Rawash, Egypt is a Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BCE) pyramid attributed to Ancient Egyptian (Old Kingdom).
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Esna Temple of Khnum
Late Ptolemaic to Roman (1st–2nd c CE hall; full temple New Kingdom to Roman) · Egyptian (Ptolemaic-Roman Egyptian)
9 m below street level, surviving 24-column hypostyle hall 1st–2nd c CE of Khnum with astronomical ceiling and unique capitals.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient village
Naqada (Nubt / Ombos)
Predynastic (Naqada I Amratian to III Protodynastic) · Naqada (Upper Egyptian protodynastic)
Type-site of Predynastic Upper Egypt — Naqada I–III cultures (c.4000–3000 BCE) that unified Egypt: eponymous cemeteries N7000+ graves at Naqada, Ballas, Nubt town (gold-worker's town of Seth).
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Pyramid of Hawara
Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty mid · Ancient Egyptian
Second pyramid of Amenemhat III (12th Dynasty) at Hawara, 58 m high 105 m base, brick core with limestone casing now stripped, near Fayum depression.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Tel Dafana (Daphnae) – Psamtik's Greek Frontier Fort at Pelusium
Late Period to Persian (664 – 525 BCE) · Saite Egyptian / East Greek mercenary Ionian–Carian
664 BCE Saite Greek mercenary fort at Pelusium gateway — casemate walls half in Pelusiac sebkha –1 to –3 m with Greek pottery.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Layer Pyramid at Zawiyet el-Aryan — Khaba
late 3rd Dynasty, c.2650 BCE (Khaba) · Ancient Egyptian (Khaba)
Unfinished layer pyramid Z1 at Zawiyet el-Aryan between Giza and Abu Rawash: 84 m base, 5–7 layers intended, now 20 m high rubble mound of limestone with pink granite foundation.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Tell
Northern Luxor Reservoir Central — Luxor, Thebes (53-26)
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
Northern Luxor Reservoir Central — Luxor, Thebes (53-26) at Luxor, Thebes, Egypt is a Iron Age (regional) tell of the Iron Age tradition, built c. 400 BCE for reservoir and associated settlement.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Philae — Trajan's Kiosk Ancillary Pavement
Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) · Old–New Kingdom Egyptian
Philae — Trajan's Kiosk Ancillary Pavement in Aswan, Philae Island, Egypt is a Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) temple complex attributed to Old–New K…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Headless Pyramid at Saqqara — Lepsius XXIX South
Old Kingdom, 5th Dynasty, c.2400 BCE (Menkauhor or ephemeral king) · Ancient Egyptian
Small pyramid Lepsius XXIX (Headless Pyramid) 200 m northeast of Khendjer complex, Saqqara south: 52 m base, now 20 m headless rubble mound, Tura limestone casing entirely robbed.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Fortress
Medinet Habu — Migdol Gate Ancillary Bastion (Thebes)
Iron Age to Classical (700 BCE–300 CE) · Iron Age fortified culture
Medinet Habu — Migdol Gate Ancillary Bastion (Thebes) in Luxor, Medinet Habu, Egypt is a Iron Age to Classical (700 BCE–300 CE) fortress attributed to Iron…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Pyramid of El-Kula (Hierakonpolis)
Late 3rd Dynasty (Huni, c.2630 BCE) · Ancient Egyptian (Huni)
Huni minor step pyramid 18.63 m base, 3 steps, ~8 m high today of limestone with eastern chapel trace, on desert slope 2.5 km west of Hierakonpolis predynastic capital (Nekhen).
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Naqada Small Step Pyramid — Ombos
late 3rd–early 4th Dynasty, c.2630 BCE · Ancient Egyptian (Huni/Sneferu)
Three-step small pyramid at Ombos (Kom el-Ahmar) west of Naqada: 14 m base, 3 steps, now low mound. Excavated by Flinders Petrie, Quibell and later Kaiser-Dreyer.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Pyramid of Athribis
Old Kingdom, 3rd Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Northernmost Huni small step pyramid at Tell Athribis (Delta): 18 m limestone 3-step, now leveled, 45 km north of Cairo c.2630 BCE — Delta terminus of 800 km network.