Alexandria
Easy
Pompey’s Pillar
Pompey's Pillar in Alexandria is the largest ancient monolithic column outside Rome — a 27-meter Aswan granite...
Giza
Easy
Memphis Open Air Museum
The Memphis Open Air Museum preserves the most significant surviving objects from Egypt's first capital — incl...
Luxor
Easy
Valley of the Queens
The Valley of the Queens contains over 90 royal tombs including Nefertari's — universally considered the fines...
Aswan
Easy
Unfinished Obelisk
The Unfinished Obelisk in Aswan's ancient granite quarries is the largest ancient obelisk ever attempted — aba...
Luxor
Easy
The Tomb of Ramesses VI (KV9): The Celestial Library
The Tomb of Ramesses VI (KV9) is the most densely decorated tomb in the Valley of the Kings — a 3,100-year-old...
Minya
Moderate
Tell el-Amarna
Tell el-Amarna is the archaeological site of Akhenaten's revolutionary 14th century BCE capital — built, popul...
Luxor
Easy
Deir el-Medina
Deir el-Medina is ancient Egypt's best-preserved workers' village — home to the tomb builders of the Valley of...
Luxor
Easy
Colossi of Memnon
The Colossi of Memnon are two 18-meter quartzite statues of Amenhotep III — the last survivors of Egypt's larg...
Alexandria
Easy
Anfushi Tombs: The Colorful Underground Art of Alexandria
The Anfushi Tombs are Alexandria's most vivid example of Ptolemaic cultural fusion — underground burial chambe...
Wadi El-Sebua
Moderate
Wadi El-Sebua: The Valley of the Lions
Wadi El-Sebua — the Valley of the Lions — is a remote Lake Nasser archaeological zone containing three relocat...
Giza
Easy
The Valley Temple
The Valley Temple of Khafre is the best-preserved Old Kingdom temple on the Giza plateau — built from 100-tonn...
Amada
Easy
Amada Temple: The Oldest Jewel of Nubia
The Temple of Amada is the oldest and most colorfully intact temple in Nubia, relocated as a single unit durin...
Dahshur
Moderate
The Red Pyramid
The Red Pyramid at Dahshur is the world's first successful true pyramid, built by Sneferu around 2590 BCE, and...
Giza
Easy
The Pyramid of Teti
The Pyramid of Teti at Saqqara contains some of the best-preserved Pyramid Texts in Egypt, with a star-painted...
Giza
Moderate
The Pyramid of Pepi II
The Pyramid of Pepi II at South Saqqara is the last royal pyramid of the Old Kingdom, built for the pharaoh wh...
Giza
Easy
The Pyramid of Menkaure
The Pyramid of Menkaure is the smallest of the three Giza pyramids, notable for its original red granite casin...
Giza
Challenging
Great Pyramid of Khufu
The Pyramid of Khufu — the Great Pyramid of Giza — is the only surviving Wonder of the Ancient World, the larg...
Giza
Moderate
The Pyramid of Khafre
The Pyramid of Khafre is the second-largest pyramid at Giza and the best-preserved in terms of its complex, wi...
Meidum
Moderate
The Meidum Pyramid
The Meidum Pyramid is the earliest attempt at a true smooth-sided pyramid in Egypt, and its dramatic partial c...
Giza
Easy
The Great Sphinx
The Great Sphinx of Giza is the world's largest monolithic statue, carved around 2550 BCE from a single outcro...
Dahshur
Moderate
The Dahshur Necropolis
The Dahshur necropolis contains the Bent Pyramid and Red Pyramid — the two most architecturally significant st...
Dahshur
Moderate
The Bent Pyramid
The Bent Pyramid at Dahshur is the best-preserved ancient pyramid casing in Egypt and the most visible archite...
Giza
Easy
Step Pyramid of Djoser
The Step Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara is the world's oldest large-scale stone structure, designed by Imhotep a...
Giza
Moderate
Saqqara & The Step Pyramid
Saqqara is Egypt's largest necropolis and one of its most active archaeological sites, home to the Step Pyrami...
Giza
Moderate
Giza Pyramid Complex
The Giza Pyramid Complex is the only surviving Wonder of the Ancient World and Egypt's most iconic destination...
Luxor
Easy
Avenue of Sphinxes
Luxor's Avenue of Sphinxes is one of Egypt's most ambitious restoration achievements, reopened in 2021 after 7...
Giza
Moderate
Abu Sir Pyramids
Abu Sir Pyramids offer an uncrowded alternative to Giza, with four 5th Dynasty royal complexes and some of the...
