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.
Articles in Egypt ( 605 )
605 Articles of interest in Egypt
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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…
Myos Hormos
Myos Hormos was a Red Sea port constructed by the Ptolemies around the 3rd century BC.
Mena House
The Mena House is a hotel and resort located just outside of Cairo, Egypt.
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 overhead powerline crossing
The Suez Canal overhead powerline crossing is a major electrical power line built across the Suez Canal in 1998, located near Suez, Egypt.
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.
Shibin Al Kawm, Al Minufiyah
Shibin Al Kawm (Egyptian Arabic: شبين الكوم Šibīn el-Kōm pronounced [ʃɪˈbiːn elˈkoːm] is a city in Egypt's Nile Delta, and the capital of the Monufia Governorate.
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…
Sohag International Airport
Sohag International Airport (IATA: HMB, ICAO: HEMK) is an airport serving Sohag which is located in the Sohag Governorate of Egypt.
Mortuary Temple of Seti I
The Mortuary Temple of Seti I is the memorial temple (or mortuary temple) of the New Kingdom Pharaoh, Seti I.
Lake Mariout
Lake Mariout (Arabic: بحيرة مريوط Boḥēret 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.
Chapelle Rouge
The Red Chapel of Hatshepsut or the Chapelle Rouge originally was constructed as a barque shrine during the reign of Hatshepsut.
Bulaq
Bulaq (also spelled Boulaq and Bulak); Arabic: بولاق, is a district of Cairo, Egypt. It neighbours Downtown Cairo, Azbakeya, and the River Nile.
Bab al-Futuh
Bab al Futuh is a gate in the walls of the Old City of Cairo, Egypt, facing north.
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…
Abu Simbel Airport
Abu Simbel Airport (IATA: ABS, ICAO: HEBL) is a regional airport in Abu Simbel, Egypt. In 2011, it served 119,326 passengers (-75.6% vs.
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…