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🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty (c.1264–1244 BCE under Ramses II) · Egyptian New Kingdom / Nubian influence
Two rock-cut temples carved for Ramses II (1264–1244 BCE) on Nubian frontier: Great Temple with four 20 m seated colossi of Ramses, aligned so sun illuminates inner sanctuary (statues of Ramses,…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Early Dynastic to Ptolemaic (Umm el-Qaab 3200 BCE; Seti I temple 1290–1279 BCE) · Egyptian Pharaonic
Chief cult centre of Osiris and burial place of first kings (Umm el-Qaab): Early Dynastic royal tombs, Middle Kingdom cenotaphs, and New Kingdom Temple of Seti I (1290–1279 BCE) – most complete and…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, 5th Dynasty, ~2422 BCE (or First Intermediate 10th Dynasty) · Ancient Egyptian
Headless Pyramid (Lepsius XXIX) east of Teti at Saqqara, c.2422 BCE Menkauhor?, 52.5 m base, rubble mound.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, 3rd Dynasty, ~2645 BCE · Ancient Egyptian
Unfinished layer pyramid of Khaba at Zawiyet el-Aryan (c.2645 BCE), 84 m base, accretion-layer technique.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Middle Kingdom, late Twelfth Dynasty (c.1900 BCE, Fayum expansion period) · Ancient Egyptian (Middle Kingdom)
Qasr el-Sagha is the isolated, unfinished limestone temple on the barren plateau north of the Fayum depression, first described by Georg Schweinfurth 1884 and fully planned by German excavators.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, 6th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Pyramid discovered November 2008 by Zahi Hawass south-east of Teti pyramid near the Gisr el-Mudir area after locating the causeway of Bubastis branch.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Tell
Third Intermediate (21st–22nd Dynasty) capital; Late Period · 21st Dynasty Tanite → Libyan 22nd Dynasty → Saite → Greek
Delta Third Intermediate capital (177 ha) built entirely from Pi-Ramesses spolia — 21st dynasty walled city with intact royal gold burials, biblical Zoan.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, 3rd Dynasty, ~2630 BCE · Ancient Egyptian
Minor step pyramid on Elephantine Island, Aswan (c.2630 BCE), 18.46 m base, frontier marker.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Tell
Hyksos → New Kingdom capital → Third Intermediate (Tanis reuse) · Hyksos → Thutmoside → Ramesside 19th Dynasty → 21st Dynasty Tanis shift
New Kingdom Delta capital (18 km²) of Ramesses II over Avaris — stables for 480 chariot horses, bronze workshops and Pelusiac harbour, buried under Qantir silt.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, late Third Dynasty (c.2635–2600 BCE, unfinished) · Ancient Egyptian (Old Kingdom, 3rd Dynasty)
Lepsius I is the huge denuded square mound (215 × 215 m, ~20 m high) on the Abu Rawash plateau 7–8 km northwest of Giza, catalogued by Lepsius in 1842 as Pyramid No.I.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
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
Late Chalcolithic to Early Bronze I (Ghassulian–Arad, Maadi–Buto) · Sinai–Negev Chalcolithic (Ghassulian, South Sinai pastoral)
25-km Sinai nawamis beehive road (3800–3200 BCE) with 15 mustatil-like platforms linking coast to Serabit mines.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Middle Kingdom, 12th–13th Dynasty, ~1800 BCE · Ancient Egyptian
Northern Mazghuna mudbrick pyramid, Dahshur south (c.1800 BCE), 52.5 m base, unfinished Sobekneferu candidate.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, 6th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Small queens pyramid immediately north of the Pyramid of Teti at Saqqara, built for Queen Iput I, daughter of Unas and wife of Teti, mother of Pepi I.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Tell
MK through Roman; Saite-Persian peak · Middle Kingdom → Hyksos → Saite Necho II → Persian Achaemenid → Ptolemaic
Wadi Tumilat gateway tell — Middle Kingdom fort, Hyksos, Saite grain silos (600 m³) and Darius I canal station, biblical Pithom/Heroöpolis.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, early 4th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Easternmost of three subsidiary queens pyramids lined north-south along the east flank of Khufu's Great Pyramid (4th Dynasty, c.2580 BCE).
🇪🇬 Egypt · Tell
Predynastic Chalcolithic to Early Dynastic · Buto-Maadi Culture → Naqada II-III interaction
Delta Predynastic tell (1.2 ha) with Buto-Maadi houses and Naqada graves interdigitated — key for Lower vs Upper Egyptian state formation, c.3500 BCE.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, very late 6th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Westernmost and smallest of Pepi II's three queen pyramids (base 23.5 m, height ~13 m), dedicated to Wedjebten, likely late wife of Pepi II.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, 3rd Dynasty, ~2630 BCE · Ancient Egyptian
Minor step pyramid 6 km north Hierakonpolis (c.2630 BCE), 18.6 m base, near predynastic capital.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, early 4th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Egypt's northernmost royal pyramid, built c.2566–2558 BCE for Djedefre (Radjedef), eldest son of Khufu, on a plateau 8 km north of Giza overlooking Heliopolis.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, 5th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Small subsidiary or cult pyramid located 20 m south-west of Unas pyramid corner within same enclosure, built for the ka of the king as per 5th–6th Dynasty tradition after Djedkare.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, 6th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Queens pyramid north-east of Pepi I enclosure, attributed to Queen Behenu whose pyramid texts were discovered in 2010 re-excavation by French mission.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Ptolemaic to Roman (54 BCE–117 CE major phase; origins Old Kingdom c.2250 BCE) · Egyptian (Late/Ptolemaic, Roman)
One of Egypt's best-preserved Ptolemaic-Roman temple complexes, the 40,000 m² walled Dendera enclosure centres on the Temple of Hathor (54 BCE) with 24 Hathor-headed columns, famed zodiac ceiling…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, late 6th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Middle queen pyramid of Pepi II at South Saqqara, dedicated to Iput II (possibly daughter of Pepi I).
