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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 new capital's great mosque, inaugurated in 2019 in the desert east of Cairo.
CairoNew Administrative Capital
The largest cathedral in the Middle East, inaugurated in 2019 facing the mosque.
The 1942 battle told on the ground, among tanks, maps and cemeteries.
Marsa Matrouh and SiwaEl Alamein, north coast
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
The Delta finally told at home, in a museum opened in 2022.
The Delta and the north coastKafr el-Sheikh, Delta
The khedives' state carriages, reopened to the public after twenty years of restoration.
CairoBoulaq
The Citadel's lower gate, restored and reopened after two centuries closed.
CairoCitadel, Darb el-Ahmar
Roman mosaics and sphinxes from the canal road, in a garden pavilion.
The Delta and the north coastIsmailia, Suez Canal
Three green domes at the canal's mouth, the very image of Port Said.
The Delta and the north coastPort Said
A necropolis kilometres long where people have lived among the tombs for centuries.
CairoQarafa, Islamic Cairo
A well from 861 that measured the flood and set the tax for all Egypt.
CairoRhoda island
Three kilometres of Mamluk arches that carried Nile water up to the Citadel.
CairoFustat
The khedives' locomotives, including Ismail Pasha's gilded saloon carriage.
CairoRamses station
A 1938 museum left exactly as it was, between faded dioramas and ancient grain.
GizaDokki
A 1907 palace on the Nile, now an art centre — painted ceilings and original parquet.
CairoZamalek
Monet, Gauguin, Van Gogh and Rodin, in a Cairo villa almost nobody visits.
The sculptor of "Egypt's Awakening", in a pavilion designed for his work.
The villa of the blind writer who made schooling free in Egypt.
GizaHaram, Giza
An Ottoman pavilion at water level on the Nile, now an Arabic music hall.
