RAF Fayid
RAF Fayid (LG-211) is a former military airfield in Egypt, located approximately 23 km south of Ismailia (Al Isma`iliyah); 69 miles 116 km northeast of Cairo.
Articles in Egypt ( 605 )
605 Articles of interest in Egypt
Click on them to get its location and coordinatesQus
Qus (Arabic: قوص, derived from Ancient Egyptian Gesa or Gesy) is a city in the modern Qena Governorate, Egypt, located on the east bank of the Nile. Its modern name is one of many borrowings in Egyptian Arabic from Coptic, the last living phase of …
Port Fuad
Port Fuad (Egyptian Arabic: بور فؤاد Borfoʾād or Porfoʾād, IPA: [boɾ.foˈʔæːd, poɾ.foˈʔæːd], the first syllable has its pronunciation from French) is a city in north-eastern Egypt under the jurisdiction of Port Said Governorate, located across the Su…
Nile University
Nile University (NU) is a not-for-profit institution of higher education.
Mons Claudianus
Mons Claudianus was a Roman quarry in the eastern desert of Egypt. It consisted of a garrison, a quarrying site, and civilian and workers' quarters. Granodiorite was mined for the Roman Empire where it was used as a building material. Mons Claudianu…
Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil Museum
The Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil Museum is a museum in Greater Cairo, in the Giza area, Egypt.
KV39
Tomb KV39 in Egypt's Valley of the Kings is one of the possible locations of the tomb of Pharaoh Amenhotep I. It is located high in the cliffs, away from the main valley bottom and other royal burials.
KV3
Tomb KV3, located in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, was intended for the burial of an unidentified son of Pharaoh Ramesses III during the early part of the Twentieth Dynasty. It is similar in design to the "straight axis" tombs typical of this dynasty…
El Kab
El Kab is an Upper Egyptian site on the east bank of the Nile at the mouth of Wadi Hillal, about 80 km south of Luxor, consisting of prehistoric and pharaonic settlements, rock-cut tombs of the early 18th Dynasty (1550–1295 BC), remains of temples d…
Desouk
Desouk (Arabic: دسوق Dosūq, Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [dɪˈsuːʔ]) is a city in northern Egypt. Located 80 km east of Alexandria, it belongs to Kafr el-Sheikh Governorate and had a population of 129,604 inhabitants as of 2009.
Badr City
Badr City (Arabic: مدينة بدر Madīnet Badr pronounced [mæˈdiːnɪt ˈbædɾ], "City of Full Moon") is a suburb in north eastern Cairo Governorate, Egypt.
Alexandria Stadium
Alexandria Stadium (Arabic: إستاد الإسكندرية) is a multi-purpose stadium in Alexandria, Egypt. It is currently used mostly for football matches, and was used for the 2006 African Cup of Nations.
WV23
Tomb WV23, located at the end of the Western Valley of the Kings near modern-day Luxor, was the final resting place of Pharaoh Ay of the 18th Dynasty.
Temple of Kalabsha
The Temple of Kalabsha (also Temple of Mandulis) is an Ancient Egyptian temple that was originally located at Bab al-Kalabsha (Gate of Kalabsha), approximately 50 km south of Aswan. The temple was situated on the west bank of the Nile River, in Nubi…
Rhoda Island
Rhoda Island or Rawdah Island, (Arabic: جزيرة الروضة, Gezīret er-Rōdah and Al Manyal ar-Rawdah ), is an island located on the Nile in central Cairo.
Maya (Egyptian)
Maya was an important figure during the reign of Pharaohs Tutankhamun, Ay and Horemheb of the eighteenth dynasty of Ancient Egypt.
KV4
KV4 is a tomb in the Valley of the Kings (Egypt). The tomb was initiated for the burial of Ramesses XI but it is likely that its construction was abandoned and that it was never used for Ramesses's interment. It also seems likely that Pinedjem I int…
KV16
Tomb KV16, located in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, was used for the burial of Pharaoh Ramesses I of the Nineteenth Dynasty.
Helwan Governorate
Helwan Governorate was one of the governorates of Egypt.
Hazeroth
Hazeroth (Hebrew: חֲצֵרוֹת) is one of the locations (or "stations") that the Israelites stopped at during their forty years of wandering in the wilderness.
Busiris (Lower Egypt)
Busiris (Greek: Βούσιρις, Herod. i. 59, 61,165; Strabo xvii. p. 802; Plut. Is. et Osir. 30; Ptol. iv. 5. § 51; Plin. v. 9. s. 11: Hierocl. p. 725; Steph. B.
Bir Gifgafa Airfield
Bir Gifgafa (also Bir-Jifjafah, Meliz or Rephidim) is an airfield in the Sinai, 90 km east of the Suez Canal.
Battle of Fort Lahtzanit
The Battle of Fort Lahtzanit took place on October 6, 1973, between the Egyptian Army and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
Assiut Airport
Assiut Airport (Arabic: مطار أسيوط) (IATA: ATZ, ICAO: HEAT) is an airport in Assiut (or Asyut), Egypt.
Alexandria Zoo
The Alexandria Zoo is a zoo close to the Smouha neighborhood in Alexandria, Egypt.
Al-Gawhara Palace
Al-Gawhara Palace (Qasr al-Gawhara), also known as Bijou Palace, is a palace and museum in Cairo, Egypt. The palace is situated south of the Mosque of Muhammad Ali in the Cairo Citadel.
Ain Shams
Ain Shams or Ein Shams (Arabic: عين شمس pronounced [ʕeːn ʃæms]) is a suburb of Cairo, Egypt.
Cecil Hotel (Alexandria)
The four-star Steigenberger Cecil Hotel in Alexandria, Egypt, was built as the Cecil Hotel in 1929 by the French-Egyptian Jewish Metzger family as a romantic hotel, at Saad Zaghloul square where Cleopatra's needles had been, in front of the Corniche…
Shadwan
Shadwan (Arabic: شدوان) is a barren rocky island twenty miles southwest of the Egyptian city of Sharm el-Sheikh on the Sinai Peninsula. It is the largest of a group of islands in the mouth of the Gulf of Suez in the northern Red Sea and measures 16…
SS Carnatic
SS Carnatic was a British steamship built in 1862-63 by Samuda Brothers at Cubitt Town on the Isle of Dogs, London, for the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
Ras Gharib
Ras Gharib (Egyptian Arabic: راس غارب Rās Ġāreb pronounced [ɾɑːs ˈɣæːɾeb]) is the northernmost of the markazes (municipalities) in the Red Sea Governorate, Egypt, situated on the African side of the Gulf of Suez. It has an area of 10,464.46 km². At…
Ras El Bar
Ras El Bar (Egyptian Arabic: راس البر Rās el-Barr , IPA: [ɾɑːs elˈbɑɾ]), which means "head of land", is a resort city in the Governorate of Damietta, in northeast Egypt. It is located at Mediterranean Sea, at the mouth of the Damietta river, a distr…
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, near the pyramid of his father, Amenemhat I. Its ancient name was Senusre…
Mit Ghamr
Mit Ghamr (Egyptian Arabic: ميت غمر, IPA: [ˈmiːt ˈɣɑmɾ]) is an Egyptian center producing aluminium accounting for more than 70% of Egypt's total production, especially aluminum utensils.
Kamil Crater
[dated info]]]
KV43
Tomb KV43 is the tomb of Pharaoh Thutmose IV in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt. It has a dog-leg shape, typical of the layout of early 18th Dynasty tombs. KV43 was rediscovered in 1903 by Howard Carter (for Theodore M.