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58 archaeological sites, grouped by region from the Delta to Nubia. Search if you know what you're looking for — otherwise just browse.
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Valley of the Kings
Explore every tomb, map the royal necropolis, and walk through the burial ground of Ramesses and Tutankhamun.
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The Western Wadis
Gharbi, Bariya, the Valley of the Monkeys — and the search for Herihor and Thutmose II, with an interactive zoomable map.
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Greater Cairo
5 sites
Pyramid complex
The Giza Plateau
Khufu, Khafre, Menkaure and the Sphinx
Museum
Egyptian Museum (Tahrir)
The 1902 cabinet of wonders on Tahrir Square
Museum
Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM)
A walk-around guide to the new flagship beside the pyramids
Museum
NMEC — National Museum of Egyptian Civilization
The Royal Mummies in Fustat
Cult temple
Heliopolis (Matariya)
The ancient Iunu, city of the sun
Memphite Necropolis
7 sites
Necropolis
Saqqara
Three thousand years of burial above Memphis
Settlement
Memphis (Mit Rahina)
The vanished capital and a recumbent Ramesses
Pyramid complex
Dahshur
The Red and Bent Pyramids of Sneferu
Pyramid complex
Abusir
The Fifth Dynasty's quiet royal cemetery
Pyramid complex
Abu Rawash
Djedefre's lost pyramid
Pyramid complex
Lisht
The Middle Kingdom returns to pyramids
Pyramid complex
Meidum
Sneferu's first attempt
Fayum
3 sitesMiddle Egypt
5 sitesRock-cut tomb
Beni Hasan
Middle Kingdom rock-cut nomarchs
Settlement
Tell el-Amarna (Akhetaten)
Akhenaten's heretic capital
Necropolis
Tuna el-Gebel
The catacombs of Thoth's ibises
Cult temple
Hermopolis Magna (Ashmunein)
City of Thoth
Monastery
White Monastery (Deir al-Anba Shenouda)
Shenoute's fifth-century basilica
Abydos & Dendera
3 sitesThebes (Luxor)
12 sites
Cult temple
Karnak
The temple that two thousand years could not finish
Cult temple
Luxor Temple
Amenhotep III and Ramesses II in the heart of the city
Rock-cut tomb
Valley of the Kings
Sixty-five royal tombs in a desert wadi
Rock-cut tomb
Valley of the Queens
Nefertari's painted chamber
Mortuary temple
Deir el-Bahari
Hatshepsut's terraced mortuary temple
Mortuary temple
Medinet Habu
Ramesses III's fortress-temple
Mortuary temple
The Ramesseum
Ozymandias's fallen colossus
Settlement
Deir el-Medina
The workers' village of the Valley of the Kings
Rock-cut tomb
Tombs of the Nobles
Sheikh Abd el-Qurna and the Asasif
Rock-cut tomb
Western Wadis (Wadi Sikkat Taqa el-Zeide)
Piers Litherland's Thutmose II discovery
Settlement
Malkata
Amenhotep III's pleasure palace
Mortuary temple
Colossi of Memnon
The seated kings of the West Bank approach
Esna to Aswan
5 sitesCult temple
Esna
The Khnum temple sunk below street level
Cult temple
Edfu (Temple of Horus)
The best-preserved temple in Egypt
Cult temple
Kom Ombo
The double temple of Sobek and Haroeris
Quarry / mine
Gebel el-Silsila
The great sandstone quarry of the Nile
Settlement
El-Kab
The Predynastic walled town of Nekheb