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Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediter ...
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Nubia Nubia () (Nobiin: Nobīn, ) is a region along the Nile river encompassing the area between the first cataract of the Nile (just south of Aswan in southern Egypt) and the confluence of the Blue and White Niles (in Khartoum in central Sudan), or ...
. Sites are listed by their classical name whenever possible, if not by their modern name, and lastly with their ancient name if no other is available.


Nomes

A nome is a subnational administrative division of Ancient Egypt.


Lower Egypt

* Nome 1: White Walls *Nome 2: Cow's thigh *Nome 3: West *Nome 4: Southern Shield *Nome 5: Northern Shield * Nome 6: Mountain bull *Nome 7: West harpoon *Nome 8: East harpoon *Nome 9: Andjety *Nome 10: Black bull *Nome 11: Heseb bull *Nome 12: Calf and Cow * Nome 13: Prospering Scepter *Nome 14: Eastmost *Nome 15: Fish *Nome 16: Djehuti *Nome 17: The Throne *Nome 18: Prince of the South *Nome 19: Prince of the North *Nome 20: Plumed Falcon


Upper Egypt

* Nome 1: Land of the bow * Nome 2: Throne of Horus * Nome 3: The Shrine *Nome 4: The sceptre * Nome 5: The two falcons * Nome 6: The crocodile *Nome 7: Sistrum * Nome 8: Great lands *Nome 9: Minu (Min) * Nome 10: Cobra *Nome 11: The
Set animal In ancient Egyptian art, the Set animal, or ''sha'', is the totemic animal of the god Set. Because Set was identified with the Greek monster Typhon, the animal is also commonly known as the Typhonian animal or Typhonic beast. Unlike other totemi ...
(Seth) *Nome 12: Viper mountain *Nome 13: Upper pomegranate tree (Upper Sycamore and Viper) *Nome 14: Lower pomegranate tree (Lower Sycamore and Viper) * Nome 15: Hare * Nome 16: Oryx *Nome 17: The black dog (Jackal) *Nome 18: Falcon with spread wings (Nemty) *Nome 19: The pure sceptre (Two Sceptres) *Nome 20: Upper laurel (Southern Sycamore) *Nome 21: Lower laurel (Northern Sycamore) *Nome 22: Knife


Lower Egypt (The Nile Delta)

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Alexandria Alexandria ( or ; ar, ٱلْإِسْكَنْدَرِيَّةُ ; grc-gre, Αλεξάνδρεια, Alexándria) is the second largest city in Egypt, and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast. Founded in by Alexander the Great, Alexandria ...
** Great Library of Alexandria ** Pharos of Alexandria ** Pompey's Pillar *
Athribis Athribis ( ar, أتريب; Greek: , from the original Egyptian ''Hut-heryib'', cop, Ⲁⲑⲣⲏⲃⲓ) was an ancient city in Lower Egypt. It is located in present-day Tell Atrib, just northeast of Benha on the hill of Kom Sidi Yusuf. The to ...
(Modern: "''Tell Atrib''", Ancient: "''Hut-Heryib''" or "''Hut-Tahery-Ibt''") * Avaris (Modern: "''Tell el-Dab'a''", Ancient: "''Pi-Ri'amsese''") *
Behbeit el-Hagar Behbeit El Hagar (, , ) is a village and an archaeological site in Lower Egypt that contains the remains of an ancient Egyptian temple to the goddess Isis, known as the Iseion. The village and the site lie in Gharbia Governorate along the Damietta ...
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Bilbeis Belbeis ( ar, بلبيس  ; Bohairic cop, Ⲫⲉⲗⲃⲉⲥ/Ⲫⲉⲗⲃⲏⲥ ' is an ancient fortress city on the eastern edge of the southern Nile delta in Egypt, the site of the Ancient city and former bishopric of Phelbes and a Lat ...
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Bubastis Bubastis ( Bohairic Coptic: ''Poubasti''; Greek: ''Boubastis'' or ''Boubastos''), also known in Arabic as Tell-Basta or in Egyptian as Per-Bast, was an ancient Egyptian city. Bubastis is often identified with the biblical ''Pi-Beseth'' ( h ...
(Modern: "''Tell Basta''", Ancient: "''Bast''") * Busiris (Modern: "''Abu Sir Bana''") *
Buto Buto ( grc, Βουτώ, ar, بوتو, ''Butu''), Bouto, Butus ( grc, links=no, Βοῦτος, ''Boutos'')Herodotus ii. 59, 63, 155. or Butosus was a city that the Ancient Egyptians called Per-Wadjet. It was located 95 km east of Alexandri ...
(Modern: "''Tell el-Fara'in''", Ancient: "''Pe''") *
Cairo Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metro ...
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Abu Rawash Abu Rawash (also spelled ''Abu Roach'', Abu Roash; ar, ابو رواش  , , , "flesh of sensual pleasures"), north of Giza, is the site of Egypt's most northerly pyramid, also known as the lost pyramid – the mostly ruined Pyram ...
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Giza Necropolis The Giza pyramid complex ( ar, مجمع أهرامات الجيزة), also called the Giza necropolis, is the site on the Giza Plateau in Greater Cairo, Egypt that includes the Great Pyramid of Giza, the Pyramid of Khafre, and the Pyramid of M ...
(Giza Plateau) *** Khufu's Pyramid (Great Pyramid) ***
Khafre's Pyramid The pyramid of Khafre or of Chephren ( ar, هرم خفرع, translit=haram ḵafraʿ, ) is the second-tallest and second-largest of the 3 Ancient Egyptian Pyramids of Giza and the tomb of the Fourth-Dynasty pharaoh Khafre (Chefren), who ruled . ...
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Menkaure's Pyramid The pyramid of Menkaure is the smallest of the three main pyramids of the Giza pyramid complex, located on the Giza Plateau in the southwestern outskirts of Cairo, Egypt. It is thought to have been built to serve as the tomb of the Fourth Dynasty ...
*** Great Sphinx of Giza ** Heliopolis (Modern: "''Tell Hisn''", Ancient: "''
Iunu Heliopolis (I͗wnw, Iunu or 𓉺𓏌𓊖; egy, I͗wnw, 'the Pillars'; cop, ⲱⲛ; gr, Ἡλιούπολις, Hēlioúpοlis, City of the Sun) was a major city of ancient Egypt. It was the capital of the 13th or Heliopolite Nome of Lower Eg ...
''") ** Letopolis (Modern: "''Ausim''", Ancient: "''Khem''") * Hermopolis Parva (Modern: "''El-Baqliya''" Ancient: "''Ba'h''") * Iseum (Modern: "''Behbeit el-Hagar''", Ancient: "''Hebyt''") *
Kom el-Hisn Kom el-Hisn ( ar, كوم الحصن ') is a Nile Delta settlement dating back to the Old Kingdom of Egypt with parts dating to the Middle Kingdom. Its location in the 3rd nome of Lower Egypt, or "House of the Lord of Ships (pr nb jmu)", focus ...
(Ancient: "''Imu''" or "''Yamu''") * Kom-el-Gir *
Leontopolis (Yahudiya) Leontopolis (Egyptian language, Egyptian: ''Ney-ta-hut'') is the Greek language, Greek name for the modern area of Tell el Yehudiye or Tell el-Yahudiya (Egyptian Arabic: ''Jews, Jewish Mound''). It was an ancient city of Egypt in the 13th nome (E ...
(Modern: "''Tell el-Yahudiya''", Ancient: "''Nay-Ta-Hut''") * Leontopolis (Modern: "''Tell el-Muqdam''") *
Naukratis Naucratis or Naukratis (Ancient Greek: , "Naval Command"; Egyptian: , , , Coptic: ) was a city and trading-post in ancient Egypt, located on the Canopic (western-most) branch of the Nile river, south-east of the Mediterranean sea and the city ...
(Modern: "''el-Gi'eif''", "''el-Niqrash''","''el-Nibeira''") *
Memphite Necropolis The Memphite Necropolis (or Pyramid Fields) is a series of ancient Egyptian funerary complexes occupying a thirty kilometer stretch on the Western Desert plateau in the vicinity of the ancient capital of Memphis, Lower Egypt, today in Giza, Egyp ...
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Memphis Memphis most commonly refers to: * Memphis, Egypt, a former capital of ancient Egypt * Memphis, Tennessee, a major American city Memphis may also refer to: Places United States * Memphis, Alabama * Memphis, Florida * Memphis, Indiana * Memp ...
) ** Abu Ghurab **
Abusir Abusir ( ar, ابو صير  ; Egyptian ''pr wsjr'' cop, ⲃⲟⲩⲥⲓⲣⲓ ' "the House or Temple of Osiris"; grc, Βούσιρις) is the name given to an Egyptian archaeological locality – specifically, an extensive necropolis o ...
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Pyramid of Neferefre The pyramid of Neferefre, also known as the pyramid of Raneferef, (in ancient Egyptian ''Nṯrỉ bꜣw Nfr-f-Rꜥ'' ("Divine is Neferefre's power")) is a 25th century BC unfinished pyramid complex built for the Egyptian pharaoh Neferefre of the ...
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Pyramid of Neferirkare The pyramid of Neferirkare (Egyptian: ''Bꜣ Nfr-ỉr-kꜣ-rꜥ'' "the Ba of Neferirkare") was built for the Fifth Dynasty pharaoh Neferirkare Kakai in the 25th century BC. It was the tallest structure on the highest site at the necropolis of Abu ...
*** Pyramid of Nyuserre ***
Pyramid of Sahure The pyramid of Sahure () is a pyramid complex built in the late 26th to 25th century BC for the Egyptian pharaoh Sahure of the Fifth Dynasty. It introduced a period of pyramid building by Sahure's successors in Abusir, on a location earlier us ...
*** Sun temple of Nyuserre *** Sun temple of Userkaf **
Dahshur DahshurAlso transliterated ''Dahshour'' (in English often called ''Dashur'' ar, دهشور ' , ''Dahchur'') is a royal necropolis located in the desert on the west bank of the Nile approximately south of Cairo. It is known chiefly for several p ...
*** Bent Pyramid ***
Black Pyramid The Black Pyramid ( ar, الهرم الأسود, al-Haram al'Aswad) was built by King Amenemhat III (r. c. 1860 BC-c. 1814 BC) during the Middle Kingdom of Egypt (2055–1650 BC). It is one of the five remaining pyramids of the original eleven ...
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Red Pyramid The Red Pyramid, also called the North Pyramid, is the largest of the pyramids located at the Dahshur necropolis in Cairo, Egypt. Named for the rusty reddish hue of its red limestone stones, it is also the third largest Egyptian pyramid, after t ...
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White Pyramid The White Pyramid ( ar, الهرم الأبيض, al-Haram al'Abyad) of Amenemhat II is located in the pyramid field at Dahshur, Egypt, and is now nothing more than a pile of rubble, having been heavily quarried for stone. The remaining limestone ...
** Helwan **
Mazghuna Mazghuna (also known as ''Al Mazghunah'' or ''Al-Muzghumah''), 5 km to the south of Dahshur, is the site of several mudbrick pyramids dating from the 12th Dynasty. The area was explored by Ernest Mackay in 1910, and was excavated by Flinders ...
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Northern Mazghuna pyramid The Northern Mazghuna Pyramid is an ancient Egyptian royal tomb which was built during the 12th or 13th Dynasty in Mazghuna, 5 km south of Dahshur. The building remained unfinished, and it is still unknown which pharaoh was really intended ...
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Southern Mazghuna pyramid The Southern Mazghuna Pyramid is an ancient Egyptian royal tomb which was built during the 12th or the 13th Dynasty in Mazghuna, 5 km south of Dahshur, Egypt. The building was never finished, and is still unknown which pharaoh was the owner, sin ...
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Saqqara Saqqara ( ar, سقارة, ), also spelled Sakkara or Saccara in English , is an Egyptian village in Giza Governorate, that contains ancient burial grounds of Egyptian royalty, serving as the necropolis for the ancient Egyptian capital, Memphis ...
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Sekhemkhet Sekhemkhet (also read as Sechemchet) was an ancient Egyptian king (pharaoh) of the 3rd Dynasty during the Old Kingdom. His reign is thought to have been from about 2648 BC until 2640 BC. He is also known under his later traditioned birth name D ...
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Buried Pyramid The Buried Pyramid (also called the Pyramid of Sekhemkhet) is an unfinished step pyramid constructed c. 2645 BC for Sekhemkhet Djoserty. He was the second pharaoh of the Third Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, which reigned over Egypt circa 2686 ...
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Gisr el-mudir Gisr el-Mudir (Arabic:جسر المدير, "bridge of the chief") also known as the Great Enclosure, is one of the oldest known stone structures in Egypt, located at Saqqara only a few hundred metres west of the Step Pyramid and the Buried Pyrami ...
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Haram el-Shawaf The pyramid of Djedkare Isesi (in ancient Egyptian ''Nfr Ḏd-kꜣ-rꜥ'' ("Beautiful is Djedkare")) is a late 25th to mid 24th century BC pyramid complex built for the Fifth Dynasty pharaoh Djedkare Isesi. The pyramid is referred to as ''Hara ...
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Pyramid of Ibi Qakare Ibi was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh during the early First Intermediate Period (2181–2055 BC) and the 14th ruler of the Eighth dynasty of Egypt, Eighth Dynasty.Jürgen von Beckerath: ''Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen'', Münchner ...
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Pyramid of Khendjer The pyramid of Khendjer was a pyramid built for the burial of the 13th dynasty pharaoh Khendjer, who ruled Egypt c. 1760 BC during the Second Intermediate Period. The pyramid, which is part of larger complex comprising a mortuary temple, a chape ...
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Pyramid of Teti The pyramid of Teti is a smooth-sided pyramid situated in the pyramid field at Saqqara in Egypt. It is the second known pyramid containing pyramid texts. Excavations have revealed a satellite pyramid, two pyramids of queens accompanied by cult s ...
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Pyramid of Unas The pyramid of Unas ( Egyptian: ''Nfr swt Wnjs'' "Beautiful are the places of Unas") is a smooth-sided pyramid built in the 24th century BC for the Egyptian pharaoh Unas, the ninth and final king of the Fifth Dynasty. It is the smallest Old Ki ...
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Pyramid of Userkaf The pyramid complex of Userkaf was built c. 2490 BC for the pharaoh Userkaf (reigned 2494–2487 BC), founder of the 5th Dynasty of Egypt (c. 2494–2345 BC). It is located in the pyramid field at Saqqara, on the north-east of the step ...
*** Step Pyramid of Djoser ***
Southern South Saqqara pyramid The Southern South Saqqara Pyramid Mark Lehner, ''The Complete Pyramids'', Thames and Hudson, London 1997, pp. 187. . (also Unfinished Pyramid at South Saqqara;Dawn McCormack, "The Significance of Royal Funerary Architecture in the Study of 1 ...
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Zawyet el'Aryan Zawyet El Aryan () is a town in the Giza Governorate, located between Giza and Abusir. To the west of the town, just in the desert area, is a necropolis, referred to by the same name. Almost directly east across the Nile is Memphis. In Zawyet E ...
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Layer Pyramid The Layer Pyramid (known locally in Arabic as ''el haram el midawwar'', ar, الهرم المدور, meaning 'rubble-hill pyramid') is a ruined step pyramid dating to the Third Dynasty of Egypt, 3rd Dynasty of Egypt (2686 BC to 2613 BC) and loc ...
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Unfinished Northern Pyramid of Zawyet El Aryan The Unfinished Northern Pyramid of Zawyet El Aryan, also known as Pyramid of Baka and Pyramid of Bikheris is the term archaeologists and Egyptologists use to describe a large shaft part of an unfinished pyramid at Zawyet El Aryan in Egypt. Archae ...
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Mendes Mendes ( grc-gre, Μένδης, '' gen''.: ), the Greek name of the ancient Egyptian city of Djedet, also known in ancient Egypt as Per-Banebdjedet ("The Domain of the Ram Lord of Djedet") and Anpet, is known today as Tell El-Ruba ( ar, تل ا ...
(Modern: "''Tell el-Rub'a''", Ancient: "Anpet''") ** Tell Tebilla *
Qantir Qantir () is a village in Egypt. Qantir is believed to mark what was probably the ancient site of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt, 19th Dynasty Pharaoh Ramesses II's capital, Pi-Ramesses or Per-Ramesses ("House or Domain of Ramesses"). It is situa ...
/ El-Khata'na *
Sais Sais ( grc, Σάϊς, cop, Ⲥⲁⲓ) was an ancient Egyptian city in the Western Nile Delta on the Canopic branch of the Nile,Mish, Frederick C., Editor in Chief. "Saïs." '' Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary''. 9th ed. Springfiel ...
(Modern: "''Sa el-Hagar''", Ancient: "''Zau''") *
Saft el-Hinna Saft el-Hinna ( ar, صفط الحنا, translit=Ṣafṭ al-Ḥinnā), also written as Saft el-Hinneh, Saft el-Henna, Saft el-Henneh, is a village and an archaeological site in Egypt. It is located in the modern Al Sharqia Governorate, in the N ...
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Sebennytos Samannud ( ar, سمنود ) is a city (''markaz'') located in Gharbia Governorate, Egypt. Known in classical antiquity as Sebennytos ( grc-gre, Σεβέννυτος), Samannud is a historic city that has been inhabited since the Ancient Egyptia ...
(Modern: "''Samannud''", Ancient: "''Tjebnutjer''") * Shagamba * Suwa *
Taposiris Magna Taposiris Magna is a city established by Pharaoh Ptolemy II Philadelphus between 280 and 270 BC. The name means "great tomb of Osiris", which Plutarch identifies with an Egyptian temple in the city. After Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in 3 ...
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Tanis Tanis ( grc, Τάνις or Τανέως ) or San al-Hagar ( ar, صان الحجر, Ṣān al-Ḥaǧar; egy, ḏꜥn.t ; ; cop, ϫⲁⲛⲓ or or ) is the Greek name for ancient Egyptian ''ḏꜥn.t'', an important archaeological site in the ...
(Modern: "''San el-Hagar''", Ancient: "''Djan'net''") *
Tell el-Maskhuta Pithom ( Ancient Egyptian: ; Hebrew: ; Ancient Greek: or ) was an ancient city of Egypt. Multiple references in ancient Greek, Roman, and Hebrew Bible sources exist for this city, but its exact location remains somewhat uncertain. A number o ...
(Ancient: "''Tjeku''") * Tell el-Rataba * Tell el-Sahaba * Tell Nebesha * Tell Qua' *
Terenuthis Tarrana ( ar, الطرانة ', cop, ⲧⲉⲣⲉⲛⲟⲩⲑⲓ '), known in classical antiquity as Terenuthis, is a town in Monufia Governorate of Egypt. It is located in the western Nile Delta, circa 70 km north-west of Cairo, between th ...
(Modern: "''Kom Abu Billo''") *
Thmuis Thmuis (; Greek: ; ar, Tell El-Timai) was a city in Lower Egypt, located on the canal east of the Nile, between its Tanitic and Mendesian branches. Its ruins are near the modern city of Timayy al-Imdid. History During the Ptolemaic period, ...
(Modern: "''Tell el-Timai''") * Tura *
Xois Sakha, also known by the ancient name of Xois ( ar, سخا, grc-koi, Ξόις, cop, ⲥϦⲱⲟⲩ Strabo xvii. p, 802; Ptolemy iv. 5. § 50; , Stephanus of Byzantium ''s. v.'') is a town in Kafr El Sheikh Governorate of Egypt. Located near th ...
(Modern: "''Sakha''")


Middle Egypt

The area from about
Faiyum Faiyum ( ar, الفيوم ' , borrowed from cop,  ̀Ⲫⲓⲟⲙ or Ⲫⲓⲱⲙ ' from egy, pꜣ ym "the Sea, Lake") is a city in Middle Egypt. Located southwest of Cairo, in the Faiyum Oasis, it is the capital of the modern Faiyum ...
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Asyut AsyutAlso spelled ''Assiout'' or ''Assiut'' ( ar, أسيوط ' , from ' ) is the capital of the modern Asyut Governorate in Egypt. It was built close to the ancient city of the same name, which is situated nearby. The modern city is located at ...
is usually referred to as Middle Egypt. * Akoris (Modern: "''Tihna el-Gebel''") **
Fraser Tombs The Fraser Tombs are a necropolis located northeast of Al Minya, Upper Egypt. They sit around south of Tihna el-Gebel village, which was an ancient limestone quarry. The rock-cut sepulchres date to the Fourth and Fifth Dynasties of the O ...
* Amarna (Ancient: "''Akhetaten''") *
Ankyronpolis El Hiba (alt. el-Hibeh; Arabic language, Arabic الحيبة ) is the modern name of the Egyptian language, ancient Egyptian city of Tayu-djayet (''t3yw-ḏ3yt''), an ancient nickname meaning "their walls" in reference to the massive enclosure ...
(Modern: "''el-Hiba''", Ancient: "''Teudjoi''") * Antinoöpolis (Modern: "''el-Sheikh 'Ibada''") *
Dara Dara is a given name used for both males and females, with more than one origin. Dara is found in the Bible's Old Testament Books of Chronicles. Dara רעwas a descendant of Judah (son of Jacob). (The Bible. 1 Chronicles 2:6). Dara (also known ...
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Pyramid of Khui The pyramid of Khui is an ancient Egyptian funerary structure datable to the early First Intermediate Period (2181 BC – 2055 BC) and located in the royal necropolis of Dara, near Manfalut in Middle Egypt and close to the entrance of the Dakhl ...
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Deir el-Bersha Deir El Bersha ( ar, دير البرشا; also written as Dayr al-Barsha, Deir el-Bersheh) is a Coptic village in Middle Egypt, in the Minya Governorate. It is located on the east bank of the Nile to the south of Antinoöpolis and almost opposit ...
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Deir el-Gabrawi Deir el-Gabrawi is a village in Upper Egypt. It is located on the east bank of the Nile, directly east of the city of Manfalut, in the Asyut Governorate. Ancient necropolis During the 6th Dynasty, the powerful nomarchs of the 12th nome of U ...
* Dishasha * Dja (Modern: "''Medinet Madi''" Ancient: "''Narmouthis''") * El-Sheikh Sa'id *
Faiyum Faiyum ( ar, الفيوم ' , borrowed from cop,  ̀Ⲫⲓⲟⲙ or Ⲫⲓⲱⲙ ' from egy, pꜣ ym "the Sea, Lake") is a city in Middle Egypt. Located southwest of Cairo, in the Faiyum Oasis, it is the capital of the modern Faiyum ...
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Crocodilopolis Faiyum ( ar, الفيوم ' , borrowed from cop,  ̀Ⲫⲓⲟⲙ or Ⲫⲓⲱⲙ ' from egy, pꜣ ym "the Sea, Lake") is a city in Middle Egypt. Located southwest of Cairo, in the Faiyum Oasis, it is the capital of the modern Faiyum ...
( Roman period: "''Arsinoe''", Ancient: "''Shedet''") **
el-Lahun El Lahun ( ar, اللاهون ''El Lāhūn,'' alt. Illahun, Lahun, or Kahun (the latter being a neologism coined by archaeologist William Matthew Flinders Petrie) is a workmen's village in Faiyum, Egypt. El Lahun is associated with the Pyramid of ...
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Hawara Hawara is an archaeological site of Ancient Egypt, south of the site of Crocodilopolis ('Arsinoë', also known as 'Medinet al-Faiyum') at the entrance to the depression of the Fayyum oasis. It is the site of a pyramid built by the Pharaoh Amene ...
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Herakleopolis Magna Heracleopolis Magna ( grc-gre, Μεγάλη Ἡρακλέους πόλις, ''Megálē Herakléous pólis'') and Heracleopolis (, ''Herakleópolis'') and Herakleoupolis (), is the Roman name of the capital of the 20th nome of ancient Upper Eg ...
(Modern: "''Ihnasiyyah al-Madinah''", Ancient: "''Henen-Nesut''") ** Kom Medinet Gurob **
Lisht Lisht or el-Lisht ( ar, اللشت, translit=Al-Lišt) is an Egyptian village located south of Cairo. It is the site of Middle Kingdom royal and elite burials, including two pyramids built by Amenemhat I and Senusret I. The two main pyramids were ...
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Meidum Meidum, Maydum or Maidum ( ar, ميدوم, , ) is an archaeological site in Lower Egypt. It contains a large pyramid and several mudbrick mastabas. The pyramid was Egypt's first straight-sided one, but it partially collapsed in ancient times. The ...
** Sidment el-Gebel ** Soknopaiou Nesos **
Tarkhan Tarkhan ( otk, 𐱃𐰺𐰴𐰣, Tarqan, mn, or ; fa, ترخان; ; ar , طرخان; alternative spellings ''Tarkan'', ''Tarkhaan'', ''Tarqan'', ''Tarchan'', ''Turxan'', ''Tarcan'', ''Turgan, Tárkány, Tarján'') is an ancient Central Asia ...
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Hermopolis Magna Hermopolis ( grc, Ἑρμούπολις ''Hermoúpolis'' "the City of Hermes", also ''Hermopolis Magna'', ''Hermoû pólis megálẽ'', egy, ḫmnw , Egyptological pronunciation: "Khemenu"; cop, Ϣⲙⲟⲩⲛ ''Shmun''; ar, الأشموني ...
(Modern: "''El Ashmunein''", Ancient: "''Khmun''") *
Hebenu Hebenu is an ancient Egyptian city. It was the early capital of the 16th Upper Egyptian Nome. The modern village of Kom el Ahmar (Minya Governorate) is built on the site where the ancient city stood. See also * List of ancient Egyptian towns ...
(Modern: "''Kom el-Ahmar''") **
Beni Hasan Beni Hasan (also written as Bani Hasan, or also Beni-Hassan) ( ar, بني حسن) is an ancient Egyptian cemetery. It is located approximately to the south of modern-day Minya in the region known as Middle Egypt, the area between Asyut and Mem ...
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Speos Artemidos The Speos Artemidos (Grotto of Artemis) is an archaeological site in Egypt. It is located about 2 km south of the Middle Kingdom tombs at Beni Hasan, and about 28 km south of Al Minya. Today, the site is a small village known as Ista ...
(Modern: "''Istabl 'Antar''") ** Zawyet el-Maiyitin *** *
Herwer Herwer was an ancient Egyptian town in the 16th nome (Oryx nome) in Upper Egypt. It is mentioned in several ancient inscriptions dating from the Old, Middle and New Kingdom. The main deities of the place were Khnum and Heqet, both several tim ...
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Lykopolis AsyutAlso spelled ''Assiout'' or ''Assiut'' ( ar, أسيوط ' , from ' ) is the capital of the modern Asyut Governorate in Egypt. It was built close to the ancient city of the same name, which is situated nearby. The modern city is located at ...
(Modern: "''Asyut''", Ancient: "''Zawty''") *
Meir Meir ( he, מֵאִיר) is a Jewish male given name and an occasional surname. It means "one who shines". It is often Germanized as Maier, Mayer, Mayr, Meier, Meyer, Meijer, Italianized as Miagro, or Anglicized as Mayer, Meyer, or Myer.Alfre ...
* Oxyrhynchus (Modern: "''el-Bahnasa''", Ancient: "''Per-Medjed''") * Sharuna *
Tuna el-Gebel Tuna el-Gebel ( ar, تونة الجبل, cop, ⲑⲱⲛⲓ) was the necropolis of Khmun ( Hermopolis Magna). It is the largest known Greco-Roman necropolis in Egypt, dating from the New Kingdom to the Roman Period, and seeing heavy use in the ...


Upper Egypt


Northern Upper Egypt

* Abydos (Ancient: "''Abedju''") ** el-'Araba el Madfuna **
Kom el-Sultan The area now known as Kom El Sultan is located near Abydos, in Egypt. It is a big mudbrick structure, the purpose of which is not clear and thought to have been at the original settlement area, dated to the Early Dynastic Period. The structure in ...
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Umm el-Qa'ab Umm El Qaʻāb (sometimes romanised Umm El Gaʻab, ar, أم القعاب) is a necropolis of the Early Dynastic Period kings at Abydos, Egypt. Its modern name means "Mother of Pots" as the whole area is littered with the broken pot shards of o ...
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Shunet ez Zebib Shunet El Zebib (Arabic:شونة الزبيب lit. "raisin barn" or "storage of the raisins"), alternatively named Shuneh and Middle Fort, is a large mudbrick structure located at Abydos in Upper Egypt. The edifice dates to the Second Dynasty (c ...
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Osireion __NOTOC__ The Osirion or Osireion is an ancient megalithic structure located at Abydos, to the rear of the Mortuary Temple of Seti I. Its original purpose is unknown. It is an integral part of Seti I's funeral complex and is possibly built to ...
* Apollinopolis Parva (Modern: "''Qus''", Ancient: "''Gesa''" or "''Gesy''") * Antaeopolis (Modern: "''Qaw el-Kebir''", Ancient: "''Tjebu''" or "''Djew-Qa''") *
Ar Raqāqinah Ar Raqāqinah, is a settlement in the New Valley Governorate of Egypt, approximately 30 km south of Sohag. It is next to Sohag International Airport and is the location of an ancient necropolis. Necropolis The ancient necropolis, approxima ...
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Athribis Athribis ( ar, أتريب; Greek: , from the original Egyptian ''Hut-heryib'', cop, Ⲁⲑⲣⲏⲃⲓ) was an ancient city in Lower Egypt. It is located in present-day Tell Atrib, just northeast of Benha on the hill of Kom Sidi Yusuf. The to ...
(Modern: "''Wannina''", Ancient: "''Hut-Repyt''") *
Beit Khallaf Beit Khallaf (Arabic: بيت خلاف ) is a small rural village located 10 kilometers west of Girga in Upper Egypt. Beit Khallaf is part of the area known as the Hajer line, which is composed of three other villages: Beit Allam, Beit Khuraybi, an ...
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Diospolis Parva Hu () 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. The nome was referred to as ''Sesheshet'' (Sistrum). The main city was referred to as Hu(t)-sekhem, which ...
(Modern: "''Hiw''", Ancient: "''Hut-Sekhem''") *
el-Hawawish El Hawawish ( ar, الحواويش) is the name given to the site of the ancient necropolis (cemetery) for the city of Akhmim in the Sohag Governorate, Egypt. The cemetery was excavated extensively by an Australian archaeological and epigraphic ...
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el-Salamuni El Salamuni (, ''Psinemoun'') is a village in the Upper Egyptian Sohag Governorate. It is located northeast of the city of Akhmim. Overview El Salamuni comprises a rock-cut chapel dedicated to the god Min (god), Min. The edifice was created by ...
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Khemmis Akhmim ( ar, أخميم, ; Akhmimic , ; Sahidic/Bohairic cop, ) is a city in the Sohag Governorate of Upper Egypt. Referred to by the ancient Greeks as Khemmis or Chemmis ( grc, Χέμμις) and Panopolis ( grc, Πανὸς πόλις and Π ...
or Panopolis (Modern: "''Akhmin''", Ancient: "''Ipu''" or "''Khent-Min''") *
Gebel el-Haridi Gabal El Haridi is an archaeological site in Egypt approximately 350 kilometers south of Cairo within Sakulta, in Sohag Governorate in Upper Egypt. The site is located south of Qaw El Kebir (Tjebu), in an area between the towns of El Nawawra and ...
* Khenoboskion (Modern: "''el-Qasr''", "''el-Saiyad''") *
Koptos Qift ( arz, قفط ; cop, Ⲕⲉϥⲧ, link=no ''Keft'' or ''Kebto''; Egyptian Gebtu; grc, Κόπτος, link=no ''Coptos'' / ''Koptos''; Roman Justinianopolis) is a small town in the Qena Governorate of Egypt about north of Luxor, situated un ...
(Modern: "''Qift''", Ancient: "''Gebtu''") * Naga ed-Der * Nag' el-Madamud (Ancient: "''Mabu''") * Ombos (Naqada) (Modern: "''Naqada''", Ancient: "''Nubt''") * Shanhûr


Southern Upper Egypt

* Aphroditopolis (Modern: "''Gebelein''", Ancient: "''Per-Hathor''") * Apollinopolis Magna (Modern: "''Edfu''", Ancient: "''Djeba, Mesen''") *
Aswan Aswan (, also ; ar, أسوان, ʾAswān ; cop, Ⲥⲟⲩⲁⲛ ) is a city in Southern Egypt, and is the capital of the Aswan Governorate. Aswan is a busy market and tourist centre located just north of the Aswan Dam on the east bank of the ...
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el-Mo'alla El Mo'alla ( ar, المعلّى) is a town in Upper Egypt located about 35 km south of Luxor, on the east bank of the Nile. Known as Hefat by ancient Egyptians, it served as a necropolis for the nearby city of Djerty (nowadays El-Tod) si ...
(Ancient: "''Hefat''") * Eileithyiaspolis (Modern: "''el-Kab''", Ancient: "''Nekheb''") *
Gebel el-Silsila Gebel el-Silsila or Gebel Silsileh ( ar, جبل السلسلة - Jabal al-Silsila or Ǧabal as-Silsila – "Chain of Mountains" or "Series of Mountains"; Egyptian: ẖny, Khenyt,Kitchen (1983). Kheny or Khenu – "The Place of Rowing"; German: ...
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Hermonthis Armant ( ar, أرْمَنْت; egy, jwn.w-n-mnṯ.w or ''jwn.w-šmꜥ.w''; Bohairic: ; Sahidic: ), also known as Hermonthis ( grc, Ἕρμωνθις), is a town located about south of Thebes. It was an important Middle Kingdom town, which was ...
(Modern: "''Armant''", Ancient: "''Iuny''") *
Hierakonpolis Nekhen ( egy, nḫn, ); in grc, Ἱεράκων πόλις Hierakonpolis ( either: City of the Hawk, or City of the Falcon, a reference to Horus or ''Hierakōn polis'' "Hawk City" in arz, الكوم الأحمر, el-Kōm el-Aḥmar, lit=the ...
(Modern: "''Kom el-Ahmar''", Ancient: "''Nekhen''") **
Kom al-Ahmar Necropolis The Kom al-Ahmar Necropolis is a necropolis in the southern area of Nekhen, Egypt. Its discovery, by a joint US–Egyptian team, was announced on April 21, 2005. The complex dates to the Amratian culture The Amratian culture, also called Na ...
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Kom Ombo Kom Ombo (Egyptian Arabic: ; Coptic: ; Ancient Greek: or ; or Latin: and is an agricultural town in Egypt famous for the Temple of Kom Ombo. It was originally an Egyptian city called Nubt, meaning City of Gold (not to be confused with t ...
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Latopolis Esna ( ar, إسنا  , egy, jwny.t or ; cop, or ''Snē'' from ''tꜣ-snt''; grc-koi, Λατόπολις ''Latópolis'' or (''Pólis Látōn'') or (''Lattōn''); Latin: ''Lato''), is a city of Egypt. It is located on the west bank of ...
(Modern: "''Esna''", Ancient: "''Iunyt, Senet, Tasenet''") *
Luxor Luxor ( ar, الأقصر, al-ʾuqṣur, lit=the palaces) is a modern city in Upper (southern) Egypt which includes the site of the Ancient Egyptian city of ''Thebes''. Luxor has frequently been characterized as the "world's greatest open-a ...
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Deir el-Bahari Deir el-Bahari or Dayr al-Bahri ( ar, الدير البحري, al-Dayr al-Baḥrī, the Monastery of the North) is a complex of mortuary temples and tombs located on the west bank of the Nile, opposite the city of Luxor, Egypt. This is a part o ...
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Qasr el-'Aguz Qasr ( ar, قصر, lit=palace/castle/fortress, plural ''qusur''), from Latin ''castrum'', may refer to: Individual ''qusur'' and places named after a ''qasr'' * * Particular types of ''qusur'' *Alcázar (cognate Spanish term; also ''Alcácer'' ...
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el-Khokha The necropolis of El-Khokha ( ar, الخوخه) is located on the west bank of the river Nile at Thebes, Egypt. The necropolis is surrounds a hill and has five Old Kingdom tombs and over 50 tombs from the 18th, 19th and 20th dynasties as well as ...
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el-Tarif El-Tarif ( ''aṭ-Ṭārif'') is a necropolis on the West Bank of the Nile, at the site of ancient Thebes (Luxor), Egypt. It is located in the northwestern outskirts of Luxor and southeast of the Valley of the Kings, opposite Karnak, just to the s ...
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Dra' Abu el-Naga' The necropolis of Draʻ Abu el-Naga' ( ar, دراع ابو النجا) is located on the West Bank of the Nile at Thebes, Egypt, just by the entrance of the dry bay that leads up to Deir el-Bahari and north of the necropolis of el-Assasif. The nec ...
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Qurnet Murai Qurnet Murai is a necropolis located on the West Bank of the Nile at Thebes, Egypt, just to the south of Sheikh Abd el-Qurna. It was also used as a cemetery for officials of the New Kingdom administration in Thebes. Tombs at Qurnet Murai * TT4 ...
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Sheikh Abd el-Qurna The necropolis of Sheikh Abd el-Qurna ( ar, شيخ عبدالقرنة) is located on the West Bank at Thebes in Upper Egypt. It is part of the archaeological area of Deir el-Bahari, and named after the domed tomb of the local saint. This is the m ...
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Valley of the Kings The Valley of the Kings ( ar, وادي الملوك ; Late Coptic: ), also known as the Valley of the Gates of the Kings ( ar, وادي أبوا الملوك ), is a valley in Egypt where, for a period of nearly 500 years from the 16th to 11th ...
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Valley of the Queens The Valley of the Queens ( ar, وادي الملكات ) is a site in Egypt, where the wives of pharaohs were buried in ancient times. It was known then as Ta-Set-Neferu, meaning "the place of beauty". It was most famous for being the burial site ...
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Sumenu Sumenu or Smenu ( Egyptian: ''S(w)mnw'') was an ancient Egyptian town located in Upper Egypt. It housed the most prominent early- Middle Kingdom sanctuary of the crocodile-god Sobek.Betrò, p. 91 Identification Uncertainties about the exact l ...
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Tuphium El-Tod ( ar, طود , from , , , ) was the site of an ancient Egyptian town and a temple to the Egyptian god Montu. It is located southwest of Luxor, Egypt, near the settlement of Hermonthis. A modern village now surrounds the site. History ...
(Modern: "''Tod''", Ancient: "''Djerty''")


Lower Nubia

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New Amada New Amada is a promontory located near Aswan in Egypt. Created during the International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia, it houses three important temples, structures, and other remains that have been relocated here from others sites ...
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Abu Simbel Abu Simbel is a historic site comprising two massive rock-cut temples in the village of Abu Simbel ( ar, أبو سمبل), Aswan Governorate, Upper Egypt, near the border with Sudan. It is situated on the western bank of Lake Nasser, about sou ...
* Contra Pselchis (Modern: "''Quban''", Ancient: "''Baki''") *
Debod The Temple of Debod ( es, Templo de Debod) is an ancient Egyptian temple that was dismantled as part of the International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia and rebuilt in the center of Madrid, Spain, in Parque de la Montaña, Madrid, a squa ...
* el-Lessiya * Mi'am (Modern: " Aniba''") *
Qasr Ibrim Qasr Ibrim ( ar, قصر ابريم; Meroitic: ''Pedeme''; Old Nubian: ''Silimi''; Coptic: ⲡⲣⲓⲙ ''Prim''; Latin: ''Primis'') is an archaeological site in Lower Nubia, located in the modern country of Egypt. The site has a long history o ...
/ Primis (Modern: "''Qasr Ibrim''") * Pselchis (Modern: "''el-Dakka''", Ancient: "''Pselqet''") **
Temple of Dakka Ad-Dakka (Arab: الدكة, also el-Dakka, Egyptian: Pselqet, Greek: Pselchis) was a place in Lower Nubia. It is the site of the Greco-Roman Temple of Dakka, dedicated to Thoth, the god of wisdom in the ancient Egyptian pantheon. The temple was i ...
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New Kalabsha New Kalabsha is a promontory located near Aswan in Egypt. Created during the International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia, it houses several important temples, structures, and other remains that have been relocated here from the site ...
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Beit el-Wali The Temple of Beit el-Wali is a rock-cut ancient Egyptian temple in Nubia which was built by Pharaoh Ramesses II and dedicated to the deities of Amun-Re, Re-Horakhti, Khnum and Anuket.Arnold & Strudwick (2003), p.29 It was the first in a series o ...
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Temple of Derr The Temple of Derr or el-Derr is a ''speos'' or rock-cut Egyptian temple, now located in New Amada in Lower Nubia. It was built during the 19th Dynasty by Pharaoh Ramesses II. It is the only rock-cut temple in Nubia, which was constructed by thi ...
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Gerf Hussein The temple of Gerf Hussein (in Ancient Egypt: Per Ptah, or 'House of Ptah') was dedicated to pharaoh Ramesses II and built by the Setau, Viceroy of Nubia. Situated on a bank of the Nile some 90 km south of Aswan, it was partly free-standing a ...
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New Wadi es-Sebua The New Wadi es-Sabua is an archaeological site in Egypt. Created during the International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia, it is located only 4 km west from the original site of Wadi es-Sebua, which today contains three ancient E ...
* Taphis (Modern: "''Tafa''") * Tutzis (Modern: "''Dendur''") * Tzitzis (Modern: "''Qertassi''")


Upper Nubia

* 'Amara East * 'Amara West * Abahuda (Abu Oda) * Aksha (Serra West) * Askut Island *
Buhen Buhen ( grc, Βοὥν ''Bohón'') was an ancient Egyptian settlement situated on the West bank of the Nile below (to the North of) the Second Cataract in what is now Northern State, Sudan. It is now submerged in Lake Nasser, Sudan; as a resu ...
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Dabenarti Dabenarti is an island in Sudan, situated in the middle of the Nile near the 2nd cataract. It is close to Mirgissa, from its east wall, and about south of the Buhen fortress. A fortress on the island was attributed to the Egyptian Nubian peri ...
* Dibeira * Dorginarti Island *
Faras Faras (formerly grc, Παχώρας, ''Pakhôras''; la, Pachoras; Old Nubian: Ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲣⲁⲥ, ''Pakhoras'') was a major city in Lower Nubia. The site of the city, on the border between modern Egypt and Sudan at Wadi Halfa Salient, was fl ...
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Gebel el-Shams Gebel may refer to: Places * Gebel Edmonstone, a flat-topped mesa * Gebel Elba, a peak in Egypt * Gebel el-Haridi, an archaeological site in Egypt * Gebel el-Silsila, an archaeological quarry site in Egypt * Gebel Ramlah, an archaeological site ...
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Gebel Barkal Jebel Barkal or Gebel Barkal ( ar, جبل بركل) is a mesa or large rock outcrop located 400 km north of Khartoum, next to Karima in Northern State in Sudan, on the Nile River, in the region that is sometimes called Nubia. The jebel is 10 ...
* Kor * Kumma * Meinarti Island *
Qustul Qustul is an archaeological cemetery located on the eastern bank of the Nile in Lower Nubia, just opposite of Ballana near the Sudan frontier. The site has archaeological records from the A-Group culture, the New Kingdom of Egypt and the X-Group ...
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Semna The region of Semna is 15 miles south of Wadi Halfa and is situated where rocks cross the Nile narrowing its flow—the Semna Cataract. Semna was a fortified area established in the reign of Senusret I (1965–1920 BC) on the west bank of the N ...
* Semna South *
Serra East Serra (Latin for "saw") may refer to: People * Serra (footballer) (born 1961), Portuguese footballer * Serra (surname) * Serra (given name) Cities, towns, municipalities Brazil *Serra, Espírito Santo, a city in the Greater Vitória area * Am ...
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Shalfak Shalfak (originally ''Waf-Chastiu'', "subduing the foreign lands") is an ancient Egyptian fortress once built up on the western shore of the Second Cataract of the Nile River and now an island in the Lake Nubia in the north of Sudan. Set up in t ...
* Uronarti Island


Oases and Mediterranean coast

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Siwa Oasis The Siwa Oasis ( ar, واحة سيوة, ''Wāḥat Sīwah,'' ) is an urban oasis in Egypt; between the Qattara Depression and the Great Sand Sea in the Western Desert (Egypt), Western Desert, 50 km (30 mi) east of the Libyan Egypt–Li ...
** Aghurmi ** el-Zeitun **
Gebel el-Mawta Gebel may refer to: Places * Gebel Edmonstone, a flat-topped mesa * Gebel Elba, a peak in Egypt * Gebel el-Haridi, an archaeological site in Egypt * Gebel el-Silsila, an archaeological quarry site in Egypt * Gebel Ramlah, an archaeological si ...
** Qaret el-Musabberin ** Umm el-'Ebeida *
Bahariya Oasis El-Wahat el-Bahariya or el-Bahariya ( ar, الواحات البحرية "''El-Wāḥāt El-Baḥrīya''", "the Northern Oases"); is a depression and a naturally rich oasis in the Western Desert of Egypt. It is approximately 370 km away from ...
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Farafra Oasis The Farafra depression ( ar, واحة الفرافرة, ) is a geological depression, the second biggest by size in Western Egypt and the smallest by population, near latitude 27.06° north and longitude 27.97° east. It is in the large Wester ...
** 'Ain el-Wadi ** el-Qasr * el-Dakhla Oasis ** Amheida ** Balat ** Deir el-Hager ** el-Qasr **
Kellis Ancient Kellis, now known as Ismant el-Kharab (Ismant the ruined), was a village in Upper Egypt during the Hellenistic Period, Roman Period, and Byzantine period. It was located about east-southeast of present-day Ismant in the Dakhleh Oasis, an ...
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Mut el-Kharab Mut, also known as Maut and Mout, was a mother goddess worshipped in ancient Egypt and the Kingdom of Kush in present-day North Sudan. In Meroitic, her name was pronounced mata): 𐦨𐦴. Her name means ''mother'' in the ancient Egyptian l ...
** Qaret el-Muzawwaqa * el-Kharga Oasis ** Baris **
Gebel el-Teir Gebel may refer to: Places * Gebel Edmonstone, a flat-topped mesa * Gebel Elba, a peak in Egypt * Gebel el-Haridi, an archaeological site in Egypt * Gebel el-Silsila, an archaeological quarry site in Egypt * Gebel Ramlah, an archaeological site i ...
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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 (664–404 BCE) which has come down to modern times in relatively good con ...
** Kysis (Modern: "''Dush''") ** Nadurs ** Qasr el-Ghueida ** Qasr Zaiyan * Mediterranean Coast ** Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham


Sinai

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Aqaba Aqaba (, also ; ar, العقبة, al-ʿAqaba, al-ʿAgaba, ) is the only coastal city in Jordan and the largest and most populous city on the Gulf of Aqaba. Situated in southernmost Jordan, Aqaba is the administrative centre of the Aqaba Govern ...
* Arsinoe * Eilat (Elath) *
Kuntillet Ajrud Kuntillet Ajrud ( ar, كونتيلة عجرود) is a late 9th/early 8th centuries BCE site in the northeast part of the Sinai Peninsula. It is frequently described as a shrine, though this is not certain. Excavations Kuntillet Ajrud (Arabic ك ...
* Pelusium (Sin) * Rud el-'Air *
Serabit el-Khadim Serabit el-Khadim ( ar, سرابيط الخادم ; also transliterated Serabit al-Khadim, Serabit el-Khadem) is a locality in the southwest Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, where turquoise was mined extensively in antiquity, mainly by the ancient Egypt ...
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Wadi Maghareh Wadi Maghareh (also spelled Maghara or Magharah, meaning "The Valley of Caves" in Egyptian Arabic), is an archaeological site located in the southwestern Sinai Peninsula, Egypt. It contains pharaonic monuments and turquoise mines dating from the ...


Eastern Desert

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Wadi Hammamat Wadi Hammamat ( en, Valley of Many Baths, ''India way; gateway to India'') is a dry river bed in Egypt's Eastern Desert, about halfway between Al-Qusayr and Qena. It was a major mining region and trade route east from the Nile Valley in ancie ...


Notes and references


Bibliography

* ''Atlas of Ancient Egypt'', John Baines &
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