🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Pyramid of Khui
First Intermediate Period (8th Dynasty, ~2160 BCE) · Ancient Egyptian
First Intermediate Period provincial pyramid of King Khui at Dara (c.2160 BCE), 146×136 m mudbrick mass.
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🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
El-Gabal el-Ahmar (Arabic: الجبل الأحمر) is a quarry located today within the boundaries of modern-day Cairo, near Nasr City. The name means "The Red Hill".
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
First Intermediate Period (8th Dynasty, ~2160 BCE) · Ancient Egyptian
First Intermediate Period provincial pyramid of King Khui at Dara (c.2160 BCE), 146×136 m mudbrick mass.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Bawit (Arabic: باويط Bāwīṭ; Coptic: ⲡⲁⲩⲏⲧ Pavēt) is an archaeological site located 80 kilometres (50 mi) north of Asyut, near the village of Dashlout, in Egypt.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Ancient Kellis, now known as Ismant el-Kharab ('Ismant the ruined' in Arabic), was a village in Upper Egypt during the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Kellia ("the Cells"), referred to as "the innermost desert", was a 4th-century Egyptian Christian monastic community spread out over many square kilometers in the Nitrian Desert about 65 km (40 mi)…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Akhmim (Arabic: أخميم, pronounced [ʔæxˈmiːm]; Akhmimic Coptic: ⳉⲙⲓⲙ, Coptic pronunciation: [xmiːm]; Sahidic/Bohairic Coptic: ϣⲙⲓⲛ Coptic pronunciation: [ʃmiːn]) is a city in the Sohag Governorate of…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
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 · Archaeological wonder
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 · Archaeological wonder
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 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 · Archaeological wonder
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 · Archaeological wonder
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 · Ancient city
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 · Ancient city
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
archaeological site in the Egyptian depression of el-Bahriya
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
building in Naqlun, Fayum, Egypt
