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The only one of the seven ancient wonders still standing. Arrive at opening.
GizaNazlet el-Semman
The world's largest archaeological museum, open since November 2025, two kilometres from the pyramids.
GizaGiza Plateau
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
A sixth-century monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai, lived in without a break since Justinian.
SinaiSinai
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
Two temples cut into the cliff by Ramesses II, then sliced apart and rebuilt higher up, 280 km south.
AswanAbu Simbel
Egypt was ruled from this crag above the city for seven hundred years, and the view still earns the climb.
CairoCitadel
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.
Cairo's oldest mosque still in its original form, with a minaret whose staircase runs outside.
CairoSayyida Zeinab
A furnished Ottoman house, lived in as it was, pressed against Ibn Tulun's outer wall.
Egypt's richest collection of Islamic art, down to the enamelled Mamluk mosque lamps.
CairoBab el-Khalq
A nave built over the towers of a Roman gate: hence the name, and the drop beneath the floor.
CairoOld Cairo, Fustat
The synagogue of the Cairo Geniza, whose fragments are now in Cambridge.
The largest collection of Coptic art anywhere, in a museum built against the walls of the Babylon fortress.
Tutankhamun and the royal mummies have gone elsewhere; the rest, vast, has stayed.
CairoTahrir, Downtown
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
