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The only one of the seven ancient wonders still standing. Arrive at opening.
GizaNazlet el-Semman
Two thousand years of building for a single sanctuary — and a hall of one hundred and thirty-four columns.
LuxorKarnak, east bank
A sanctuary of Isis dismantled stone by stone, then rebuilt on another island.
AswanAgilkia Island
A Roman necropolis on three levels, where Anubis wears a legionary's armour.
AlexandriaKarmouz
Egypt's only surviving Roman theatre: thirteen tiers of marble in the middle of downtown.
AlexandriaKom el-Dikka
A 2002 library that has nothing of the ancient one but its name, and a reading room on eleven terraces.
AlexandriaShatby
A royal park by the sea where you visit the gardens, not the palace.
AlexandriaMontazah
Nubia before Lake Nasser, and the villages that had to be left behind.
AswanAswan
An obelisk still lying in its quarry, cracked: the one place that shows how they were cut.
AswanQuarries
Cairo's largest Mamluk complex — and a mausoleum whose occupant never arrived.
CairoRumeila
Muhammad Ali's dynasty rests here — and, with it, the last Shah of Iran.
A furnished Ottoman house, lived in as it was, pressed against Ibn Tulun's outer wall.
CairoSayyida Zeinab
Egypt's richest collection of Islamic art, down to the enamelled Mamluk mosque lamps.
CairoBab el-Khalq
The largest collection of Coptic art anywhere, in a museum built against the walls of the Babylon fortress.
CairoOld Cairo, Fustat
Buildings, borrowed styles, a garden of rare trees — on an island in the middle of Cairo.
CairoManial, Roda Island
A concrete Hindu temple on the airport road, long left to rumour.
CairoHeliopolis
The day power left the Citadel and came down into the city.
CairoAbdeen
The southern gate of Fatimid Cairo, topped by two Mamluk minarets you can climb.
CairoDarb el-Ahmar
A madrasa, a mausoleum and a hospital from 1284, in the middle of al-Muizz street.
CairoAl-Muizz, Gamaliya
Two of Snefru's pyramids, one of them changing angle halfway up, and nothing like Giza's crowds.
GizaDahshur
A capital of three thousand years, down to a fallen colossus and an alabaster sphinx. Come warned.
GizaMit Rahina
A temple in the middle of town, open after dark, with a working mosque sitting in its courtyard.
LuxorCorniche
Three white terraces set into the cliff, and the queen's name chiselled out everywhere.
LuxorDeir el-Bahari, west bank
The best-preserved temple on the west bank, with colour still clinging to the ceilings.
LuxorWest bank
