🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Hypselis
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
Idfa
Idfa (Arabic: إدفا) is a village in Sohag Governorate in Upper Egypt located 6.4 km (4.0 mi) from the nearby city of Sohag.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Pyramid of Queen Khuit II
Old Kingdom, 6th Dynasty, c.2328 BCE · Ancient Egyptian
Easternmost queens pyramid east of Pepi I for Khuit II (not Teti Khuit), wife of Pepi I, 21 m canon. French-Swiss mission found canopic chest fragment with queen's titulary and bead net.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Deir el-Ballas South Palace
Second Intermediate to New Kingdom (c. 1600–1450 BCE) · Theban Egyptian (17th–18th Dynasty)
17th Dynasty war capital south palace (80×50 m) with workmen's village 150 houses.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Oxyrhynchus (El-Bahnasa) – City of Papyri
Pharaonic / Graeco-Roman · Egyptian / Greek / Roman
Nome capital whose rubbish mounds yielded 500,000+ Greek papyri (Grenfell & Hunt 1896–1906) – Sappho, Menander, Gospel of Thomas.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Deir el-Gabrawi
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
Paraetonium (Marsa Matruh) – Lagoon Fortress
Pharaonic to Byzantine (New Kingdom – 7th c CE; Ptolemaic port 300 BCE) · Egyptian / Ptolemaic / Roman / Byzantine
Egypt's western gate on Mediterranean lagoon, Paraetonium began as Ramesses II's western chain fort, then great Ptolemaic lagoon port with Alexander–Cleopatra stopover tradition; l...
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Cynopolis
Cynopolis (Greek: Κυνόπολις and Κυνῶν πόλις for "city of the dog") was the Hellenistic toponym for two cities in ancient Egypt. Both Cynopolis superior and Cynopolis inferior were bishoprics in Christian times.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Abydos Osireion (paired detail)
New Kingdom · Egyptian (Seti I)
Abydos Osireion (paired detail) in Sohag, Egypt is a New Kingdom temple complex attributed to Egyptian (Seti I) culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Fortress
Tell el-Retaba (Wadi Tumilat Fortress)
Second Intermediate to Saite (c. 1800–525 BCE; Hyksos–Ramesside fortress) · Hyksos / New Kingdom Egyptian (Ramesside)
Wadi Tumilat gate fortress claimed as biblical Pithom/Succoth, with Hyksos glacis and Ramesside Tjeku fortress of Seti I (Pr-Atum). Excavated by Naville, Petrie and Polish mission...
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Coptos (Qift / Koptos) – Desert Gate of Gold & Incense
Predynastic to Roman · Egyptian / Roman
Caravan terminus of Wadi Hammamat road to Red Sea moving gold, bekhen-stone and incense. Temple of Min–Isis (Elkab-scale).
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Mortuary Temple of Seti I
Ancient Egypt
building in Qurna, Theban Necropolis in Upper Egypt, across the River Nile from the modern city of Luxor (Thebes)
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Aswan
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 · Necropolis
Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa
The catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa (Arabic: مقابر كوم الشقافة, romanized: Maqābir Kūm al-Shuqāfah, lit.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Heliopolis (ancient Egypt)
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 (Nubia)
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 · Temple complex
Amr ibn al-As Mosque
The Amr ibn al-As Mosque (Arabic: مَسْجِد عَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَاصِ, romanized: Masjid ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ) is a mosque, located in the Fustat neighbourhood of Old Cairo, Egypt.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Ayn Sukhna — Southern Old Kingdom Gallery Harbour
Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1700 BCE) · Old Kingdom Egyptian (Memphite)
Southern Pharaonic harbour of Ayn Sukhna — gallery caves and mole at 0.5–2.5 m in Gulf of Suez south bay.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Hermopolis (Lower Egypt)
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 · Buried city
Akoris — Central Harbour Terrace at Tihna el-Gabal
Middle Kingdom to Coptic (2000 BCE – 600 CE) · Middle Kingdom Egyptian / Graeco-Roman
Central Nile harbour terrace of Akoris — rock-cut quay 40 m and basin at Tihna cliff foot buried 3–5 m.