Kom Ombo is unlike any other temple on the Nile — a perfectly symmetrical double temple, built with…
Sharm El Sheikh sits at the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula, where the desert mountains drop straight…
Of everything that survives from ancient Egypt, the Temple of Horus at Edfu is the most completely preserved…
Philae is Aswan’s answer to Abu Simbel’s rescue story — when the original Aswan Dam threatened to submerge…
For nearly 500 years, from the 16th to 11th century BCE, this narrow desert valley on Luxor’s West…
Khan el-Khalili has been Cairo’s beating commercial heart since the 14th century, built on the site of a…
Twenty years in the making, the Grand Egyptian Museum finally opened on the Giza plateau on November 1,…
Founded by Alexander the Great in 331 BCE, Alexandria was the ancient world’s great Mediterranean capital — home…
In the 1960s the entire temple complex was cut into more than a thousand blocks and rebuilt 65…
A Berber-speaking oasis near the Libyan border, home to the Oracle of Amun that Alexander the Great crossed…