🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Zawyet el-Meytin Pyramid
Old Kingdom, 3rd Dynasty, ~2630 BCE · Ancient Egyptian
Northernmost minor step pyramid opposite Hebenu, Minya (c.2630 BCE), 22 m base on limestone spur.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient village
Akoris (Tihna el-Gabal) – Rock-cut Tombs & Mines
Old Kingdom to Roman · Egyptian
Cliff sanctuary with rock-cut Hathor/Nemesis chapel, pink limestone quarries supplying Amarna, and 12th Dyn rock-tombs of nomarch Wahka with nautical graffiti. Miners' camp and Roman road station.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Antinoopolis – Hadrian's Nile Harbour City of Antinous, Sheikh Abada
Roman to Medieval (130–700 CE) · Greek / Roman / Egyptian / Hadrianic
Hadrian 130 CE Greek polis where Antinous drowned — 400x120 m Nile harbour grid city 350 ha with 18 m arch.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Necropolis
Tuna el-Gebel Northern Ibis Catacombs
Late Period to Roman (664 BCE–250 CE) · Egyptian (Late Period–Ptolemaic–Roman)
Ibis catacomb annex 400 m north of Petosiris with 2m mummies.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Akoris — Northern Quarry Valley Harbour at Tihna North
Ptolemaic to Coptic (300 BCE – 500 CE) · Graeco-Roman Egyptian
Northern quarry valley of Akoris — slipway and wadi canal buried 2–4 m for 3-ton block export north.
🇪🇬 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 · Ancient city
Antinoöpolis (El Sheikh Ibada / Antinoë) – Hadrian's City
Roman · Roman / Egyptian / Greek
Instant Græco-Roman show-city founded by Hadrian Oct 130 CE for drowned Antinous. Hippodamian grid, tetrastyle gates, 3 km colonnaded cardo, circus and temple to Osiris-Antinous. Greek boule papyri.
🇪🇬 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.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Ebla (Tell Mardikh) (Idlib Governorate)
Early Bronze Age to Iron Age · Eblaite (Semitic)
Ebla (Tell Mardikh) in Idlib Governorate, Syria is a Early Bronze Age to Iron Age ancient city attributed to Eblaite (Semitic) culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works
Minufiyya Basin Canal & Dyke System (Nile Delta Apex Margins)
Old Kingdom to modern (4th Dyn–Aswan High Dam 1970) · Memphite–Fayum basin engineers; Islamic fellahin maintenance
Delta apex basin system 58 km NW Cairo: 22-km Bahr Shibin canal + 9 dykes forming 14 flood basins (18 km²).
🇪🇬 Egypt · Tell
el-Hibeh (Teudjoi / Ankyropolis)
Third Intermediate through Late-Byzantine; TI fortress phase · Theban High Priest (21st) → Libyan 22nd → Saite → Graeco-Roman
Third Intermediate border fortress (1070 BCE) with 12 m bastioned wall on Nile cliff — Theban–Tanite frontier garrison, Amenhotep III temple, priestly necropolis and Hibeh papyri.