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The colossus of Ramesses II lies in pieces in his own courtyard: it is the statue behind 'Ozymandias'.
LuxorWest bank
A museum that chose to show little, and to show it well. Keep it for the hot hours.
LuxorCorniche
An Ottoman house of 1648 in a lane off al-Muizz, courtyard and mashrabiya intact.
CairoGamaliya
A madrasa and Sufi khanqah of 1386, third façade of the Bayn al-Qasrayn row.
CairoAl-Muizz, Gamaliya
The royal mummies have been here since 2021, and the story runs right up to Egypt today.
CairoFustat
The wadi of royal wives and children, and Nefertari's tomb, which is paid for separately.
The village of the men who cut the royal tombs: their houses, their tombs, their accounts.
A Ptolemaic temple still almost whole, roof included, dug out of the silt in the 1860s.
LuxorEdfu
A hypostyle hall on its own, at the bottom of a pit, under the town that grew over it.
LuxorEsna
Hathor's face on every capital, and a zodiac taken from the roof in 1821, now in the Louvre.
LuxorDendera
A Christian cemetery of vaulted mud-brick chapels, their walls covered in Greek graffiti.
The oases and the Western DesertKharga
A Ptolemaic temple still standing at the far end of Lake Qarun: rooms, stairs, roof, cellars.
FayoumQasr Qarun
A Mamluk fortress of the 1470s at the harbour point, over the ruins of the Pharos.
AlexandriaAnfoushi
Two kilometres and seven hundred sphinxes between Luxor and Karnak, reopened after forty years of excavation.
LuxorEast bank, Luxor
The Red Sea's first archaeological museum, opened in 2020 on the airport road.
HurghadaHurghada
A national museum opened in 2020, fifteen minutes from the Naama Bay hotels.
Sharm el-SheikhSharm el-Sheikh
An Ottoman pavilion at water level on the Nile, now an Arabic music hall.
CairoRhoda island
A double temple, shared between the crocodile Sobek and the falcon Haroeris.
AswanKom Ombo
Twenty Egyptian sovereigns, moved in 2021 into a hall built for them.
