🇪🇬 Egypt · Necropolis
City of the Dead (Cairo)
The City of the Dead, or Cairo Necropolis, also referred to as the Qarāfa, is a series of vast Islamic-era necropolises and cemeteries in Cairo, Egypt.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Necropolis
Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa
The catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa (Arabic: مقابر كوم الشقافة, romanized: Maqābir Kūm al-Shuqāfah, lit.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Ballana
Ballana (Arabic: بلانة, romanized: Ballāna) was a cemetery in Lower Nubia. It, along with nearby Qustul, were excavated by Walter Bryan Emery between 1928 and 1931 as a rescue project before a second…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Behbeit El Hagar
Behbeit El Hagar (Ancient Egyptian: Pr-ḥꜣbyt(.t), lit. 'house of festival hall', Coptic: ⲡⲁϩⲃⲉⲓⲑⲓⲟⲥ, Ancient Greek: Πααβηιθις) is a village and an archaeological site in Lower Egypt that contains the…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Necropolis
Helwan (cemetery)
Helwan is a large ancient Egyptian cemetery with more than 10,000 burials excavated at the modern city of Helwan, south of modern Cairo.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Maadi
Maadi (Egyptian Arabic: المعادى el-Maʿādi [elmæˈʕæːdi]) is a leafy and once suburban district in the Southern Area of Cairo, Egypt, on the east bank of the Nile about 12 kilometers (7.5 mi) upriver…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Heracleion
Heracleion (Ancient Greek: Ἡράκλειον Hērákleion), also known as Thonis (Ancient Greek: Θῶνις Thônis; from the Ancient Egyptian: Tȝ-ḥn.t; Coptic: Ⲧϩⲱⲛⲓ Thōni) and sometimes called Thonis-Heracleion,…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Hu, Egypt
Hu, Huw or Hiw (Arabic: هُو, Coptic: ϩⲱ, ϩⲟⲩ) is the modern name of an Egyptian town on the Nile, which in more ancient times was the capital of the 7th Nome of Upper Egypt.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Kafr Ammar
Kafr Ammar (Arabic: كفر عمّار) is a village in the Giza Governorate of Egypt. The modern village is located on the site of the ancient city of Acanthus (Greek: Ἄκανθος; in Ptolemy, Ἀκανθῶν Πόλις),…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Central Field, Giza
The Central Field is an area of the Giza pyramid complex located to the east of Khafre's causeway and extending to the pyramid town of Queen Khentkaus I.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Kom El Deka
Kom El Deka (Arabic: كوم الدكة), also known as Kom el-Dikka, is a neighborhood and archaeological site in Alexandria, Egypt.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Mazghuna South Pyramid
Middle Kingdom, late 12th Dynasty, ~1795 BCE · Ancient Egyptian
Southern Mazghuna pyramid, 400 m south of north (c.1795 BCE), 52.5 m base, Amenemhat IV candidate.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
El Qattah
El Qattah, also known as Qattah or El-Qattah, is an ancient Egyptian site in Lower Egypt, roughly 10 miles northwest of Letopolis.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Gynaecopolis
Gynaecopolis (Ancient Greek: Γυναικόπολις) or Gynaecospolis (Ancient Greek: Γυναικόσπολις); "Woman's city" or "Women's City"; sometimes translated as "Wife's City".
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Hieracon
Per Nemty (pr nmty; House of Nemty), an Ancient Egyptian settlement also known in Greek as Hieracon and at the modern village of al-Atawla, on the right/eastern bank of the Nile River northeast of…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Ain Sokhna
Al-'Ain al-Sokhna (Arabic: العين السخنة, romanized: al-ʿAyn as-Sukhna Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [elˈʕeːn esˈsoxnæ], "the Hot Spring") is a town in the Suez Governorate, lying on the western…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Cusae
Cusae (Ancient Greek: Κοῦσαι or Κῶς; Coptic: ⲕⲱⲥⲉⲓ or ⲕⲟⲥⲉⲓ) was a city in Upper Egypt. Its Ancient Egyptian name was qjs (variant qsy), conventionally rendered Qis or Kis, with many further…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Apollonos Hydreium
Apollonos Hydreium (Plin. vi. 26; It. Anton.) or Apollinopolis or Apollonopolis (Greek: Ἀπόλλωνος πόλις), was an ancient city of Egypt that stood upon the high road from Coptos, in the Thebaid, to…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock shelter
Cave of Beasts
The Cave of the Beasts (also named Foggini-Mestikawi Cave or Foggini Cave or Cave Wadi Sura II) is a huge natural rock shelter in the Western Desert of Egypt featuring Neolithic rock paintings, more…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Cave of Archers
Cave of Archers is a rock art shelter of the Gilf Kebir National Park in the New Valley Governorate, Egypt. It is located on the south-eastern slopes of Gilf Kebir, 40 m to the south of the Cave of Swimmers.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
El Hawawish
El Hawawish (Arabic: الحواويش) is the ancient necropolis (cemetery) for the city of Akhmim in the 9th Nome of Upper Egypt (UE09), in modern the Sohag Governorate, Egypt.