Aswan
Easy
Elephantine Island
Elephantine Island at Aswan has been inhabited since 3000 BCE — Egypt's oldest continuously occupied site, con...
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...
Aswan
Easy
The Temple of Kalabsha: The Pristine Marvel of Lower Nubia
The Temple of Kalabsha is the largest freestanding Nubian temple in Egypt — a Roman Augustus-era monument dedi...
Abydos
Easy
Temple of Seti I
The Temple of Seti I at Abydos contains Egypt's finest painted reliefs and the famous Abydos King List — locat...
Luxor
Easy
Temple of Ramses III
Medinet Habu — the mortuary temple of Ramesses III — is the best-preserved New Kingdom temple on Luxor's west ...
Kharga Oasis
Easy
Temple of Hibis
The Temple of Hibis at Kharga Oasis is the only complete Late Period temple in Egypt, containing the most exte...
Esna
Easy
Temple of Esna
The Temple of Esna is a Roman-era Khnum temple sitting 9 meters below the modern town, famous for its astronom...
Turin
Easy
Temple of Ellesyia
The Temple of Ellesyia is an 18th Dynasty Nubian rock-cut sanctuary built by Thutmose III that no longer exist...
Qena
Easy
Temple of Dendera
The Temple of Hathor at Dendera is one of Egypt's best-preserved Ptolemaic temples, famous for its astronomica...
Luxor
Easy
Ramesseum Temple
The Ramesseum is Ramesses II's mortuary temple on Luxor's west bank — famous for the fallen colossus that insp...
Aswan
Easy
Philae Temple
Philae Temple is where ancient Egyptian religion made its last stand — the site of the final hieroglyphic insc...
Luxor
Easy
Luxor Temple
Luxor Temple is the most accessible ancient monument in Egypt — standing in the center of a modern city yet st...
Kom Ombo
Easy
Kom Ombo Temple
Kom Ombo is Egypt's only symmetrical double temple, dramatically positioned on the Nile bank at sunset, dedica...
Luxor
Moderate
Karnak Temple
Karnak Temple is the largest ancient religious complex ever constructed — 200 acres of pylons, obelisks, and h...
Luxor
Easy
Hatshepsut Temple
Hatshepsut's mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahari is one of ancient Egypt's most architecturally refined monument...
Edfu
Easy
Edfu Temple
Edfu Temple is the best-preserved ancient temple in Egypt and the finest example of Ptolemaic religious archit...
Aswan
Easy
Beit el-Wali Temple
Beit el-Wali is one of Ramesses II's earliest temples, relocated to New Kalabsha island near Aswan, noted for ...
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...
Abu Simbel
Easy
Abu Simbel Temples
Abu Simbel Temples are the most iconic monuments of ancient Nubia — twin rock-cut temples of Ramesses II saved...
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...
