Archaeological Sites in Egypt
Pyramid complex in Egypt (33)
Abusir
The Abusir pyramid complex is located on the Western Desert plateau at the edge of the cultivated plain, with the Giza Pyramids to its north, and Saqqara to its south, and served…
Ameny Qemau Pyramid
The pyramid of Ameny Qemau is an ancient Egyptian pyramid located in southern Dahshur. It was constructed for Ameny Qemau, an obscure king of the 13th Dynasty during the Second…
Bent Pyramid
The Bent Pyramid is an ancient Egyptian pyramid located at the royal necropolis of Dahshur, approximately 40 kilometres south of Cairo, built under the Old Kingdom Pharaoh…
Edfu South Pyramid
The Edfu South pyramid is part of a group of seven very similar small step pyramids which were all built far from the main centres of Egypt and about which very little is known,…
Giza Necropolis
The Giza pyramid complex (also called the Giza necropolis) in Egypt is home to the Great Pyramid, the pyramid of Khafre, and the pyramid of Menkaure, along with their associated…
Lepsius No.25 Pyramid
A 5th Dynasty double tomb on the southeastern edge of the Abusir necropolis in Egypt. The eastern tomb measures 27.7 x 21.5 m and the western 21.7 x 15.7 m, with walls inclined at…
Meidum Pyramid
The Meidum Pyramid seems never to have been completed. By the time it was investigated by Napoleon's Expedition in 1799, the Meidum Pyramid had its present three steps. The…
Pyramid G1-a
Pyramid G1-a is the northernmost of three queens' pyramids in the Giza East Field, built during the Fourth Dynasty east of the Great Pyramid of Khufu. Originally attributed to…
Pyramid G1-b
Pyramid G1-b is a Fourth Dynasty (c. 2600-2500 BC) subsidiary pyramid in the Giza East Field, positioned ten meters south of Pyramid G1-a. It served as the central queen's pyramid…
Pyramid G1-c
Pyramid G1-c was originally not a part of Khufu's pyramid complex, as its southern side is aligned not with the side of the Great Pyramid, but with Khufukhaf I's mastaba tomb…
Pyramid G1-d
Pyramid G1-d is a satellite pyramid within the Khufu pyramid complex on the Giza plateau. The pyramid was discovered in 1992, during work to remove a road, about 25 metres…
Pyramid of Amenemhat I
The Pyramid of Amenemhat I is an Egyptian burial structure built at el-Lisht by the founder of the Twelfth Dynasty, who moved the capital from Thebes to nearby Itj-tawy. The…
Pyramid of Amenemhat III at Hawara
Hawara is an archaeological site at the entrance to the Fayyum oasis, featuring a mudbrick pyramid built by Pharaoh Amenemhat III of the Twelfth Dynasty around 1860-1814 BC. The…
Pyramid of Djedefre
The pyramid of Djedefre is Egypt's northernmost pyramid. Believed to have been built by Djedefre, son and successor to king Khufu, it consists today mostly of ruins located at Abu…
Pyramid of Djedkare-Isesi
The Pyramid of Djedkare Isesi is a late 25th to mid-24th century BC pyramid complex in South Saqqara, Egypt, built for Fifth Dynasty pharaoh Djedkare Isesi. Known locally as Haram…
Pyramid of Djoser
The Pyramid of Djoser, sometimes called the Step Pyramid of Djoser or Step Pyramid of Horus Netjerikhet, is an archaeological site in the Saqqara necropolis, Egypt. It was the…
Pyramid of Hetepheres I
The Pyramid of Hetepheres I (G1-a) at Giza was built for the mother of Khufu, who held titles including "King's Mother" and "God's Daughter of his body". On February 2, 1925,…
Pyramid of Khafre
The pyramid of Khafre or of Chephren is the middle of the three Ancient Egyptian Pyramids of Giza, the second tallest and second largest of the group. It is the only pyramid out…
Pyramid of Khentkaus II
The pyramid of Khentkaus II is a queen's pyramid in the necropolis of Abusir in Egypt, which was built during the Fifth dynasty of Ancient Egypt. It is attributed to the queen…
Pyramid of Neferefre
(25th c. BC) The pyramid of Neferefre is an unfinished pyramid complex built for the Egyptian pharaoh Neferefre of the Fifth Dynasty in the 25th century BC. It is the third and…
Pyramid of Neferhetepes
The Pyramid of Neferhetepes is a small subsidiary pyramid at Saqqara, built for Queen Neferhetepes, wife of Userkaf, the first king of the Fifth Dynasty. She was the mother of…
Pyramid of Neferirkare
The Pyramid of Neferirkare is the tallest structure at the Abusir necropolis, built for the Fifth Dynasty pharaoh Neferirkare Kakai in the 25th century BC. With a base of 105 m,…
Pyramid of Pepi II
The Pyramid of Pepi II was the tomb of King Pepi II, located in southern Saqqara, to the northwest of the Mastabat al-Fir'aun. It was the final full pyramid complex to be built in…
Pyramid of Sahure
The Pyramid of Sahure is the funerary monument of Fifth Dynasty pharaoh Sahure, located in Abusir. Constructed in the late 26th to 25th century BC, it initiated a period of…
Pyramid of Sekhemkhet- Buried Pyramid
The buried pyramid was originally modelled after Djoser's step pyramid and is located several hundred metres southwest. Sekhemkhet's pyramid complex was built southwest of…
Pyramid of Senusret I
The pyramid of Senusret I is an Egyptian pyramid built to be the burial place of the Pharaoh Senusret I. The pyramid was built during the Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt at el-Lisht,…
Pyramid of Unas
The Pyramid of Unas is a smooth-sided pyramid built in the 24th century BC for Pharaoh Unas, the ninth and final king of Egypt's Fifth Dynasty. Located in North Saqqara between…
Pyramid of Userkaf
The Pyramid of Userkaf is the ruined tomb of the founder of Egypt's 5th Dynasty (c. 2494 BC), located at Saqqara northeast of Djoser's step pyramid. Built of dressed stone with a…
Red Pyramid
The Red Pyramid, also called the North Pyramid, is the largest of the pyramids located at the Dahshur necropolis in Cairo. It is the third largest Egyptian pyramid, after those of…
Satellite Pyramid (to Bent Pyramid)
The Satellite Pyramid of the Bent Pyramid is a subsidiary structure located 55 metres south of the main Bent Pyramid at Dahshur, built during the reign of Pharaoh Sneferu (c. 2600…
The Black Pyramid- Pyramid of Amenemhat III (Dahshur)
The Black Pyramid was built by King Amenemhat III during the late Middle Kingdom of Egypt (2055–1650 BC). It is one of the five remaining pyramids of the original 11 pyramids at…
The Great Pyramid of Giza
The Great Pyramid of Giza is the largest of the Egyptian pyramids and the most famous landmark of the Giza pyramid complex in Giza, Egypt. It is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of…
The Layer Pyramid
The Layer Pyramid is a ruined step pyramid dating to the 3rd Dynasty of Egypt (2686 BC to 2613 BC) and located in the necropolis of Zawyet El Aryan. Its ownership is uncertain and…
Temple complex in Egypt (33)
Abu Simbel Temples
Abu Simbel comprises two massive rock-cut temples carved into a mountainside in the 13th century BC during the reign of Pharaoh Ramesses II. The Great Temple features four…
Beit el-Wali
The Temple of Beit el-Wali is a rock-cut ancient Egyptian temple in Nubia built by Pharaoh Ramesses II and dedicated to the deities Amun-Re, Re-Horakhti, Khnum and Anuket. It was…
Deir el-Bahari
Deir el-Bahari is a complex of mortuary temples and tombs on the west bank of the Nile, opposite Luxor, forming part of the Theban Necropolis. The first monument here was the…
Deir el-Shelwit Temple
Deir el-Shelwit is an Egyptian temple built during the Greco-Roman period. Dedicated to Isis, a major goddess in the Egyptian religion, the temple stands on the west bank of the…
Dendera Temple Complex
The Dendera Temple Complex, located 2.5 km southeast of Dendera in Upper Egypt, is one of the best-preserved temple complexes in ancient Egypt, spanning approximately 40,000…
Great Aten Temple
The Great Temple of the Aten was a temple located in the city of el-Amarna, Egypt. It served as the main place of worship of the deity Aten during the reign of the 18th Dynasty…
Hatshepsut Temple
The Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari, opposite Luxor, is a masterpiece of ancient Egyptian architecture built c. 1479-1458 BCE. Designed by the royal architect…
Kalabsha Temple
The largest free-standing temple in Lower Nubia, built during the reign of Emperor Augustus (30 BC-14 AD) and dedicated to the Nubian sun god Mandulis. Originally located at Bab…
Karnak Temple Complex
The Karnak Temple Complex, commonly known as Karnak, comprises a vast mix of temples, pylons, chapels, and other buildings near Luxor, Egypt. Construction at the complex began…
Luxor Temple
The Luxor Temple is a large Ancient Egyptian temple complex located on the east bank of the Nile River in the city of Luxor and was constructed around 1400 BC. In Egyptian it was…
Medinet Habu
Medinet Habu is an archaeological locality situated near the foot of the Theban Hills on the West Bank of the River Nile opposite the modern city of Luxor, Egypt. A Prussian…
Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III
The Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III, also known as Kom el-Hettân, was built by the main architect Amenhotep, son of Hapu, for Pharaoh Amenhotep III during the 18th dynasty of the…
Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut
The Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut is a temple complex built during the reign of Pharaoh Hatshepsut of the Eighteenth Dynasty. Located opposite Luxor, it is considered a…
Mortuary Temple of Hawara
The mortuary temple adjacent to the pyramid of Amenemhat III at Hawara in Egypt's Faiyum region was known in antiquity as the Labyrinth. Herodotus described it as containing 3,000…
Mut Precinct
The Precinct of Mut is an Ancient Egyptian temple compound located in the present city of Luxor (ancient Thebes), on the east bank of the Nile in South Karnak. The compound is one…
Osiris Temple, Abydos.
Abydos was one of the oldest cities of ancient Egypt. From earliest times, Abydos was a cult centre, first of the local deity, Khentiamentiu, and from the end of the Old Kingdom,…
Ramesses III Temple
The Ramesses III Temple at Karnak is the bark shrine that Ramesses III built south of the second pylon and that a later court of Shoshenq I enclosed. A small temple built by…
Serapeum of Alexandria and Pompey's Pillar
The Serapeum of Alexandria was an ancient Greek temple built by Ptolemy III Euergetes (r. 246-222 BC) and dedicated to the syncretic god Serapis, patron deity of Alexandria. The…
Sun Temple of Niuserre (Abu Ghorab)
The Sun Temple of Niuserre at Abu Ghorab was built by the sixth ruler of the Fifth Dynasty in honor of the sun god Ra, named Shesepu-ib-re ("Delight of Ra"). The complex follows a…
Sun Temple of Userkaf
The Sun Temple of Userkaf was an ancient Egyptian temple dedicated to the sun god Ra built by Pharaoh Userkaf at the beginning of the 25th century BCE. The sun temple of Userkaf…
Temple of Amada
The Temple of Amada, is one of the oldest Egyptian Temples in Nubia. It was constructed during the 18th Dynasty (c. 1550–1295 BC) by Pharaoh Thutmose III. In total, three…
Temple of Amun
The Temple of Amun is a mortuary temple complex on the west bank of the Nile in Egypt, central to the Karnak temple complex. Built during the New Kingdom period (1550-1070 BC), it…
Temple of Dakka
The temple of Dakka collapsed in 1908–1909 and was subsequently rebuilt by Alessandro Barsanti via Anastylosis. During the construction of the Aswan Dam in the 1960s, the temple…
Temple of Hibis
The Temple of Hibis is the largest and best preserved ancient Egyptian temple in the Kharga Oasis, as well as the only structure in Egypt dating to the Saite-Persian period…
Temple of Khonsu
The Temple of Khonsu is an ancient Egyptian temple. It is located within the large Precinct of Amun-Re at Karnak, in Luxor, Egypt. The edifice is an example of an almost complete…
Temple of Kom Ombo
The Temple of Kom Ombo is an unusual double temple in the town of Kom Ombo in Aswan Governorate, Upper Egypt. It was constructed during the Ptolemaic dynasty, 180–47 BC. Some…
Temple of Nefertari- Abu Simbel
The Small Temple at Abu Simbel, built by Ramesses II (c. 1264-1244 BC), was dedicated to the goddess Hathor and his chief consort Queen Nefertari, only the second time in Egyptian…
Temple of Philae
The Philae temple complex is an island-based sanctuary on Agilkia Island in the reservoir of the Aswan Low Dam, Egypt. Originally located on Philae Island, the complex was…
Temple of Ptah, Sekhmet and Nefertom
The Temple of Ptah is a shrine located within the large Precinct of Amun-Re at Karnak, in Luxor, Egypt. It lies to the north of the main Amun temple, just within the boundary…
Temple of Ramesses II- Abu Simbel
Abu Simbel comprises two colossal rock-cut temples built by Ramesses II on the west bank of the Nile in southern Egypt. The Great Temple features four 20-metre seated figures of…
Temple of Thutmose III
The Ramesseum
The Ramesseum is the memorial temple of Pharaoh Ramesses II ("Ramesses the Great"). It is located in the Theban Necropolis in Upper Egypt, on the west of the River Nile, across…
The Temple of Horus at Edfu
The Temple of Edfu is an Egyptian temple located on the west bank of the Nile in Edfu, Upper Egypt. The temple was built in the Ptolemaic Kingdom between 237 and 57 BC. The…
Temple in Egypt (21)
Chapel of Osiris
The Chapel of Osiris-Ptah Neb-ankh ('Lord of Life') is a 25th Dynasty sandstone shrine at Karnak, built by Kushite pharaohs Taharqa and Tantamani in the 7th century BC. Located…
Hypostyle Hall
The Great Hypostyle Hall is located within the Karnak Temple Complex, in the Precinct of Amon-Re. The structure was built around the 19th Egyptian Dynasty (c. 1290–1224 BC). The…
Kertasi Temple
Kertasi Temple is a Roman-era temple complex located south of Kalabsha temple in the Aswan region of Egypt. Like many Nubian monuments, it was relocated to higher ground following…
Mortuary Temple of Khufu
The Mortuary Temple of Khufu stood against the east face of the Great Pyramid at Giza, measuring 52.2 metres north to south and 40 metres east to west. Its interior featured an…
Mortuary Temple of Seti I
The Mortuary Temple of Seti I stands in the Theban Necropolis at Qurna, across the Nile from modern Luxor. Built toward the end of Seti I's reign, it was likely completed by his…
Nefertari Temple
The Small Temple at Abu Simbel, also known as the Nefertari Temple or Temple of Hathor, was constructed c. 1264 BC by Pharaoh Ramesses II of the 19th Dynasty as a dedication to…
Qasr al-Sagha
Qasr al-Sagha is a Middle Kingdom temple complex in the Faiyum Governorate of Egypt, situated 8 km north of Lake Qarun at the foot of Qatrani Mountain. Built from limestone and…
Qasr el-Sagha
Qasr el-Sagha is an ancient Egyptian temple located 8 km north of Lake Qarun in Fayoum Governorate, situated on a low protrusion at the foot of Gebel Qatarany in an abandoned,…
Qasr Qaroun Temple
Qasr Qaroun is a well-preserved Ptolemaic temple in Egypt. Dedicated to Sobek-Ra, a fusion of the crocodile god Sobek and the solar god Ra, the temple stands at the center of the…
Qasr Sagha Temple
Qasr el-Sagha is an Egyptian temple complex located 8 km north of Lake Qarun in Faiyum Governorate, situated on a low protrusion at the foot of Qatrany mountain in an abandoned…
Small Aten Temple
The Small Aten Temple is a temple to the Aten located in the ancient Egyptian city of Amarna. It is one of the two major temples in the city, the other being the Great Temple of…
Temple of Dedun
Dedun was a Kushite or Nehasi god worshipped during ancient times in ancient Egypt and Sudan and attested as early as 2400 BC. Depicted as a lion, Dedun began as a god of…
Temple of Khnum- Esna
Temple complex in Esna, Egypt, dedicated to the god Khnum along with Neith and Heka. Construction began during the Ptolemaic period, though most surviving structures were built…
Temple of Khonsuirdis
The temple is associated with the official Khonsuirdis.
Temple of Maharraqa
An unfinished Roman-era temple in Lower Nubia dedicated to Isis and Serapis, built in the late 1st century BC or early 1st century AD following Rome's annexation of Egypt. The…
Temple of Ptah - Garf Hussien
Temple complex in southern Egypt built during the reign of Ramesses II (c. 1279–1213 BC) by his Nubian viceroy Setau. Located on the Nile bank 90 km south of Aswan, it combines…
Temple of Satet
The Temple of Satet or Satis was an ancient Egyptian temple dedicated to the goddess Satet, a personification of the Nile inundation. The temple was located on the Nile Valley…
Temple of the Revelation of Amun
The Temple of Amun at Siwa, known as the Temple of the Oracle, sits atop Aghurmi hill in Egypt's Western Desert, about 50 km from the Libyan border. The oracle declined during…
Temple of Umm Ubayd
The Temple of Umm Ubayda is a 30th Dynasty Egyptian temple in the Siwa Oasis. It was the second temple dedicated to the god Amun in the oasis, alongside the more famous Temple of…
Trajan's Kiosk
Trajan's Kiosk, also known as Pharaoh's Bed by the locals, is a hypaethral temple currently located on Agilkia Island in southern Egypt. The unfinished monument is attributed to…
Valley Temple of Khafre
The Valley Temple of Khafre, built c. 2500 BC during Egypt's 4th Dynasty, is one of the best-preserved Old Kingdom temples, located at the foot of the Giza Plateau near the Great…
Necropolis/tombs complex in Egypt (8)
Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa
The Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa are a Roman-era necropolis in Alexandria, Egypt, considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Middle Ages and the largest known Roman burial site in…
Giza Eastern Cemetery
The Eastern Cemetery at Giza, also known as the East Field, lies immediately east of the three Queen's Pyramids of Khufu (c. 2589-2566 BC). It contains large stone mastaba tombs…
Saqqara Necropolis
Saqqara is southwest of Cairo. Serving as the necropolis for the ancient capital Memphis, it was in use from the 1st Dynasty through the Ptolemaic period. The site also contains…
Serapeum of Saqqara
The Serapeum of Saqqara was the ancient Egyptian burial place for sacred bulls of the Apis cult at Memphis. Over a timespan of approximately 1400 years, from the New Kingdom of…
Tomb of Queen Khentkawes I
The pyramid of Khentkaus I or step tomb of Khentkaus I is a Fourth Dynasty two-stepped tomb built for the Queen Mother Khentkaus I in Giza. A nearly square block of bedrock,…
Tombs of the Nobles
A vast necropolis on the west bank of the Nile opposite Luxor, containing over 415 catalogued tombs (designated TT). Notable tombs include Sennefer (TT 96), known as the Tomb of…
Valley of the Kings
The Valley of the Kings, also known as the Valley of the Gates of the Kings, is an area in Egypt where, for a period of nearly 500 years from the Eighteenth Dynasty to the…
Valley of the Queens
The Valley of the Queens is a site in Egypt, in which queens, princes, princesses, and other high-ranking officials were buried from roughly 1560 BC to 1130 BC. The Valley of the…
Monument in Egypt (4)
Column of Taharqa
The Column of Taharqa is the sole surviving element of a monumental kiosk erected in the Great Court of the Karnak Temple complex by Pharaoh Taharqa of Egypt's 25th Dynasty (r.…
Great Sphinx of Giza
The oldest known monumental sculpture in Egypt, carved from a single mass of limestone on the Giza Plateau. Measuring approximately 73 metres long and 20 metres high, it depicts a…
Obelisk of Hatshepsut
The Obelisk of Hatshepsut at Karnak is the tallest obelisk in Egypt, standing 29.5 m (97 ft) tall and carved from a single piece of pink granite. Commissioned by female pharaoh…
Obelisk of Thutmose I
The Obelisk of Thutmose I stands in the Central Court of Karnak Temple, beyond the Third Pylon. Originally erected in front of the Fourth Pylon—the entrance to Karnak during…
City/town/settlement in Egypt (3)
Deir el-Medina
Deir el-Medina, or Dayr al-Madīnah, is an ancient Egyptian workmen's village which was home to the artisans who worked on the tombs in the Valley of the Kings during the 18th to…
Thebes
Thebes, known to the ancient Egyptians as Waset, was an ancient Egyptian city located along the Nile about 800 kilometers south of the Mediterranean. Its ruins lie within the…
Umm El Baragat- Tebtunis
Tebtunis was an ancient Egyptian city in Lower Egypt, founded around 1800 BCE by Twelfth Dynasty king Amenemhat III at present-day Tell Umm el-Baragat in the Faiyum Governorate.…
Megalithic statues in Egypt (2)
Colossi of Memnon
The Colossi of Memnon are two large stone statues of the Pharaoh Amenhotep III, which stand at the front of the ruined Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III. They have stood since 1350…
Colosso di Ramses II
The Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II commissioned numerous colossal statues of himself across ancient Egypt. The most renowned are those flanking the entrance to the main temple at Abu…
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Other sites in Egypt (4)
Ancient Roman Theatre
A 4th-century AD Roman odeum at Kom el-Dikka in Alexandria, Egypt, discovered in the 1960s during construction work. The structure features 13 rows of white marble seats with…
Pyramids of Queens
(2600–2500 BC) The Pyramids of Queens are three small satellite pyramids located on the north side of the Great Pyramid of Giza, part of the Fourth Dynasty necropolis. They are…
The Lost City of Heracleion
Heracleion (Thonis) was an ancient Egyptian port city at the Canopic Mouth of the Nile, 32 km northeast of Alexandria.
Umm es-Sawan Ancient Basalt Quarry
An ancient quarry on Gebel el-Qatrani in Egypt's Western Desert, exploited during the 3rd millennium BC. While primarily known as a basalt quarry, it is also unique as Egypt's…
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