🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
El-Tod
El-Tod (Arabic: طود aṭ-Ṭūd, from Coptic: ⲧⲟⲟⲩⲧ or ⲧⲁⲩⲧ, Ancient Egyptian: Ḏrty, lit. 'falcon', Ancient Greek: Τουφιον, Latin: Tuphium) was the site of an ancient Egyptian town and a temple to the…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Pyramid of Meidum
Old Kingdom, late 3rd – early 4th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Collapsing transitional pyramid built by Sneferu (or Huni) at the mouth of the Fayum: first straight-sided true pyramid attempt, originally seven steps encased to form 92 m true pyramid; outer casing…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works
Mural Hall Misc 53 — Egypt Region 5
Period Late Holocene · Regional culture Misc-Hydraulic
Mural Hall Misc 53 — Egypt Region 5 in Egypt Region 5, Egypt is a Neolithic hydraulic with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Menouthis Bay — Canopic Annex
Ptolemaic to Early Byzantine (332 BCE–641 CE) · Ptolemaic Egyptian–Greek
Menouthis Bay — Canopic Annex in Alexandria Governorate, Egypt is a Ptolemaic to Early Byzantine (332 BCE–641 CE) submerged-city attributed to Ptolemaic Egyptian–Greek.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Biahmu
Biahmu (Byahmu) is a village and archaeological site in Faiyum Governorate, Egypt. The town is in the Faiyum Oasis, 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) from the city of Faiyum.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Necropolis
El Kab North Wadi Necropolis
Predynastic to New Kingdom (3500–1086 BCE) · Predynastic / Egyptian (New Kingdom)
Governor tombs north of El Kab with predynastic rock-art bank.
🇪🇬 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...
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Bigeh
Bigeh (Arabic: بجح; Ancient Egyptian znmwt) is an island and archaeological site situated along the Nile River in historic Nubia and within the Aswan Governorate of southern Egypt.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Magharet el Kantara
Magharet el Kantara or Shaw's Cave (Arabic: مغارة القنطرة, arched cave) is a rock art shelter of the Gilf Kebir National Park in the New Valley Governorate, Egypt.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Aphrodites Bay Shrine — Berenike North Bay Temple
Ptolemaic (300 BCE) · Ptolemaic Berenike
Aphrodites Bay Shrine — Berenike North Bay Temple in Red Sea Governorate, Egypt is a Ptolemaic (300 BCE) temple-complex attributed to Ptolemaic Berenike.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Hosh Essa
Hoch Eissa (Arabic: حوش عيسى) is a city in Beheira Governorate, Egypt. The 1885 Census of Egypt recorded Hoch Eissa as a nahiyah in the district of Abu Hummus in Beheira Governorate; at that time,…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Clysma
Clysma (Greek: Κλῦσμα, romanized: Klŷsma, lit. 'surf, waves that break'; Coptic: ⲡⲉⲕⲗⲟⲩⲥⲙⲁ, romanized: Peklousma; Arabic: القلزم, romanized: al-Qulzum) was an ancient city and bishopric in Egypt.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Thonis-Heracleion
Late Period to Byzantine (6th c BCE – 8th c CE) · Egyptian / Greek
Legendary port of entry to Egypt before Alexandria, submerged after earthquake/liquefaction 6th–8th century CE, rediscovered 2000 by Franck Goddio (IEASM) with stele of Nectanebo I, temples of…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Xoïs (Sakha) – Delta Capital of the Xoite Dynasty
Old Kingdom / Second Intermediate · Egyptian
Lost capital of Xoite 14th Dynasty (76 kings) contesting Hyksos Avaris. Stepped temple of Amun and 8 m Hyksos walls detected by magnetometry; Herodotus lists Delta metropolis.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Heracleopolis Magna (Ihnasya el-Medina)
Old to Middle Kingdom / Late Period · Egyptian
Capital of Heracleopolitan dynasty (Dyn 9–10, 2160–2055 BCE) whose 'Instruction for Merikare' defines First Intermediate Period.
🇪🇬 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 · Archaeological wonder
Valley of the Golden Mummies
archaeological site in the Egyptian depression of el-Bahriya
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Monastery of the Archangel Gabriel at Naqlun
building in Naqlun, Fayum, Egypt
