Articles in Egypt ( 605 )

605 Articles of interest in Egypt

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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.

  • Precinct of Mut

    The Precinct of Mut, located near Luxor, Egypt, is one of the four main temple enclosures that make up the immense Karnak Temple Complex and occupies some 150,000 m². It is dedicated to the Egyptian goddess Mut, the mother goddess. The area in which…

  • Marina, Egypt

    Marina, also Marina El Alamein (Arabic: مارينا العلمين‎  Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [mæˈɾiːnæ l.ʕælæˈmeːn]), ancient Leukaspis or Antiphrae, is an up-scale resort town catering mainly to Egyptian elites.

  • Lisht

    Lisht or el-Lisht 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 surrounded by smaller pyramids of membe…

  • KV34

    Tomb KV34 in the Valley of the Kings (near the modern-day Egyptian city of Luxor) was the tomb of 18th dynasty Pharaoh Thutmose III.

  • KV21

    Tomb KV21 is located in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. It contains the mummies of two women, thought to be Eighteenth Dynasty queens.

  • KV11

    Tomb KV11 is the tomb of Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses III. Located in the main valley of the Valley of the Kings, the tomb was originally started by Setnakhte, but abandoned when it broke into the earlier tomb of Amenmesse (KV10).

  • Hermonthis

    The modern town of Armant (ancient Egyptian Iuny; Coptic: ⲉⲣⲙⲉⲛⲧ Erment; known in Greek as Hermonthis), is located about 12 miles south of Thebes, in Egypt. It was an important Middle Kingdom town, which was enlarged during the Eighteenth Dynasty. I…

  • Aqmar Mosque

    Al-Jam`e Al-ِAqmar(Arabic: الجامع الأقمر‎, literally:Moonlit mosque) or Al-Aqmar Mosque, also called Gray mosque, is a mosque in Cairo, Egypt dating from the Fatimid era. It was built in the under vizier al-Ma'mun al-Bata'ihi during the caliphate of…

  • Xois

    Xois (Greek: Ξόις, Strabo xvii. p, 802; Ptol. iv. 5. § 50; Ξόης, Steph. B. s. v.) was a town of great antiquity and considerable size.

  • White Pyramid

    The White Pyramid 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.

  • White Monastery

    The Coptic White Monastery is a Coptic Orthodox monastery named after Saint Shenouda the Archimandrite. It is located near the Upper Egyptian city of Sohag, and about four kilometers south east of the Red Monastery. The name of the monastery is deri…

  • Tura, Egypt

    Tura or Tora (Egyptian Arabic: طرة ṭóra  IPA: [ˈtˤoɾˤɑ]) was a site in Ancient Egypt, located about halfway between modern Cairo and Helwan.

  • Tahpanhes

    Tahpanhes (also transliterated Tahapanes or Tehaphnehes; known by the Ancient Greeks as Daphnae (Δάφναι), now Tell Defenneh) was a city in Ancient Egypt. It was located on Lake Manzala on the Tanitic branch of the Nile, about 26 km (16 miles) from P…

  • Suez Canal Container Terminal

    Suez Canal Container Terminal (SCCT) (Arabic: شركة قناة السويس للحاويات‎) is a container terminal emerged at Port Said East as a transshipment centre for the Eastern Mediterranean at the northern entrance to the Suez Canal.

  • Nekhel

    Nekhel (Arabic: نِخِل‎  Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [ˈnexel]; also spelled and pronounced Nakhl  [næxl]) is the capital of Nekhel Municipality of North Sinai Governorate, Sinai, Egypt. It is located in the heart of Sinai Peninsula along the south…

  • Lake Mariout

    Lake Mariout (Arabic: بحيرة مريوطBoḥēret Maryūṭ , IPA: [boˈħeːɾet mɑɾˤˈjuːtˤ]), also spelled Maryut or Mariut, is a brackish lake in northern Egypt.

  • Kafr el-Dawwar

    Kafr el-Dawwar (Arabic: كفر الدوار‎  Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [kɑfɾ eddɑwˈwɑːɾ]) is a major industrial city and municipality on the Nile Delta in northern Egypt.

  • KV57

    Tomb KV57, located in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, was used for the burial of Horemheb, the last Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty.

  • KV46

    Tomb KV46 in the Valley of the Kings is the tomb of Yuya and his wife Tjuyu, the parents of Queen Tiye, the wife of Amenhotep III, and King Ay, and grandparents of Nefertiti. It was discovered in February 1905 by James E. Quibell. Quibell was sponso…

  • Garden City, Cairo

    Garden City (Egyptian Arabic: جاردن سيتى Garden Siti  pronounced [ˈɡɑɾden ˈsiti]) is a wealthy, residential district in Central Cairo that spans the East side of the Nile and just south of downtown, the location of the famous Midan Tahrir (Tahrir Sq…

  • Etham

    Etham (Hebrew: אֵתָם‎)(Means "solid, enduring" in Hebrew.) was the second place, after Succoth, at which the Israelites stopped during the Exodus. According to the Torah, Etham was on the edge of the wilderness (i.e. the edge of civilization or the …

  • Dra' Abu el-Naga'

    The necropolis of Dra' Abu el-Naga' 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-Bahri, and north of the necropolis of el-Assasif.

  • Bulaq

    Bulaq (also spelled Boulaq and Bulak); Arabic: بولاق‎‎, is a district of Cairo, Egypt. It neighbours Downtown Cairo, Azbakeya, and the River Nile.

  • Aqsunqur Mosque

    The Aqsunqur Mosque (also known as the Blue Mosque or the Mosque of Ibrahim Agha) is located in Cairo, Egypt and is one of several "blue mosques" in the world.

  • El-Qantarah el-Sharqiyya

    Al Qantarah El Sharqiyya (30.85° N 32.31° E) is a northeastern Egyptian city on the eastern side of the Suez Canal located in the Egyptian governorate of Ismailia, 160 kilometres (99 mi) northeast of Cairo and 50 kilometres (31 mi) south of Port Sai…

  • Sebennytos

    Sebennytos or Sebennytus (Greek: Σεβέννυτος, Ptol. iv. 5. § 50, Steph. B. s. v. or ἡ Σεβεννυτικὴ πόλις, Strabo xvii. p. 802) or Egyptian: Tjebnutjer (𓎀𓃀𓃘𓊹𓊖) Arabic: سمنود Samannud was an ancient city of Lower Egypt, located on the Damietta (Sebennyt…