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The day power left the Citadel and came down into the city.
CairoAbdeen
Founded in 970 by the Fatimids, a place of teaching for more than a thousand years.
CairoAl-Hussein, Gamaliya
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
Djoser's step pyramid, the oldest large stone building in the world. Best in the early morning.
GizaSaqqara
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
Over sixty tombs in a wadi without a scrap of shade, and a ticket that opens only a handful.
LuxorWest bank
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.
The colossus of Ramesses II lies in pieces in his own courtyard: it is the statue behind 'Ozymandias'.
Two eighteen-metre statues at the roadside, all that stands of the west bank's largest temple.
A museum that chose to show little, and to show it well. Keep it for the hot hours.
An Ottoman house of 1648 in a lane off al-Muizz, courtyard and mashrabiya intact.
CairoGamaliya
A public fountain of 1744 at the fork of al-Muizz, the Quran school above it.
A madrasa and Sufi khanqah of 1386, third façade of the Bayn al-Qasrayn row.
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 medieval mud-brick town: covered lanes, dated door lintels, a minaret and a grain mill.
The oases and the Western DesertDakhla
