🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Abusir Bana
Abusir Bana (Egyptian Arabic: أبو صير بنا), known in ancient times as Busiris (Greek: Βούσιρις; Coptic: ⲡⲟⲩⲥⲓⲣⲓ, ⲃⲟⲩⲥⲓⲣⲓ, romanized: pusiri, busiri, lit.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Islamic Cairo
Islamic Cairo (Egyptian Arabic: قاهرة المعز, romanized: Qāhira al-Muʿizz, lit. 'Al-Mu'izz's Cairo'), or Medieval Cairo, officially Historic Cairo (القاهرة التاريخية el-Qāhira tārīkhiyya), refers…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Agilkia Island
Agilkia Island (also called Agilika; Arabic: أجيليكا, from Old Nubian: ⲁ̅ⲅⲗ̅, romanised: agil, "mouth") is an island in the reservoir of the Old Aswan Dam along the Nile River in southern Egypt; it…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Gabal El Haridi
Gabal El Haridi is an archaeological site in Egypt approximately 350 kilometers south of Cairo within Sakulta, in Sohag Governorate in Upper Egypt.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Colossi of Memnon
Ancient Egypt
The Colossi of Memnon (Arabic: el-Colossat or es-Salamat) are two large stone statues of the Pharaoh Amenhotep III, which stand at the front of the ruined Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III, the…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Abu Madi
Abu Madi (Arabic:أبو ماضي) is a cluster of prehistoric, Neolithic tell mounds in Southern Sinai, Egypt. It is located east of Saint Catherine's Monastery at the bottom of a granite ridge.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Beautiful Festival of the Valley
ancient history · Ancient Egypt
The Beautiful Festival of the Valley (Egyptian: hb nfr n jnt; Arabic: عيد الوادي الجميل, romanized: Eid al-Wadi al-Jamil) was an ancient Egyptian festival, celebrated annually in Thebes (now Luxor),…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Avenue of Sphinxes
Avenue of Sphinxes or The King's Festivities Road, also known as Rams Road (Arabic: طريق الكباش), is a 2.7 km (1.7 mi) long avenue (dromos) which connects Karnak Temple with Luxor Temple having been…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Contra Latopolis
Contra Latopolis (sometime named Al Hilla or El-Hella) is an Egyptian temple. During the reign of Cleopatra VII, a temple to Isis was built opposite Latopolis, or Esne as it is now known, on the…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Al-Azhar Park
Al-Azhar Park (Arabic: حديقة الأزهر, romanized: Ḥadīqat al-Azhar) is a public park located in qism al-Darb al-Ahmar, in Historic Cairo, Egypt.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Kom Ombo
Kom Ombo (Egyptian Arabic: كوم أمبو; Coptic: ⲙ̄ⲃⲱ əmbō or ⲛ̄ⲃⲱ ənbō; Ancient Greek: Ὄμβοι Omboi or Ὄμβος Ombos; or Latin: Ambo and Ombi) is an agricultural town in Egypt famous for the Temple of Kom…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Hemamieh
Hemamieh (El-Hammamiya) is a village located in the Sohag Governorate in Middle Egypt on the east bank of the Nile.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Apis (city)
Apis (Greek: Ἄπις, named for the god Apis), was an ancient seaport town (Polyb. Exc. Leg. 115) on the north coast of Africa, about 18 km west of Paraetonium, sometimes considered located within…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Leontopolis (Heliopolis)
Ancient Egypt · Ancient Egypt
Leontopolis is the Koine Greek name of a city that may correspond to either the modern area of Tell el Yehudiye or Tell el-Yahudiya ("the Jewish tell").
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Armant, Egypt
Armant (Arabic: أرْمَنْت; Ancient Egyptian: jwn.w-n-mnṯ.w or jwn.w-šmꜥ.w; Bohairic: ⲉⲣⲙⲟⲛⲧ; Sahidic: ⲣ̄ⲙⲟⲛⲧ), also known as Hermonthis (Ancient Greek: Ἕρμωνθις), is a town located about 19 km (12…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Hebenu
Hebenu (Ancient Egyptian: 𓎛𓃀𓈖𓏌𓍢𓊖, Coptic: ⲧϩⲁⲃⲓⲛ, ⲡⲙⲁⲛϩⲁⲃⲓⲛ, romanized: t-Habin, p-Manhabin, Arabic: حفن, romanized: Hafn) or Alabastron (Koine Greek: Ἀλάβαστρων πόλις) was a city in ancient…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Gebelein
Gebelein (Egyptian Arabic: الجبلين, Two Mountains; Egyptian: Inerty or Per-Hathor; Ancient Greek: Παθυρις Pathuris or Ἀφροδιτόπολις Aphroditópolis; Latin: Pathyris or Aphroditopolis) is an…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
El Matareya, Cairo
El Matareya (Arabic: المطرية [el.mɑ.tˤɑ.ˈɾej.jɑ]) is a district in the Eastern Area of Cairo, Egypt.
🇪🇬 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
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
Arsinoe (Gulf of Suez)
Arsinoe (Ancient Greek: Ἀρσινόη) or Arsinoites or Cleopatris (Ancient Greek: Κλεοπατρίς) or Cleopatra, was an ancient city at the northern extremity of the Heroopolite Gulf (Gulf of Suez), in the Red Sea.
🇪🇬 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)
