List of ancient Egyptian sites

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The nomes of Ancient Egypt

This is a List of Ancient Egyptian Sites, throughout all of Egypt and Nubia.

Sites are listed with their classical name whenever possible, else their modern name and last if no other available their ancient name.

1 Lower Egypt (The Nile Delta)
2 Middle Egypt
3 Upper Egypt
- 3.1 Northern Upper Egypt
- 3.2 Southern Upper Egypt
4 Lower Nubia
5 Upper Nubia
6 The Oases
7 Sinai
8 Eastern Desert
9 Reference

[edit] Lower Egypt (The Nile Delta)

Alexandria
- Great Library of Alexandria
- Pharos of Alexandria
- Pompey's Pillar
Athribis (Modern: "Tell Atrib", Ancient: "Hut-Heryib" or "Hut-Tahery-Ibt")
Avaris (Modern: "Tell el-Dab'a", Ancient: "Pi-Ri'amsese")
Behbeit el-Hagar
Bilbeis
Bubastis (Modern: "Tell Basta", Ancient: "Bast")
Busiris (Modern: "Abusir")
Buto (Modern: "Tell el-Fara'in", Ancient: "Pe")
Cairo (or near Cairo)
- Abu Rawash
- Giza Necropolis (Giza Plateau)
  - Khufu's Pyramid (Great Pyramid)
  - Khafre's Pyramid
  - Menkaure's Pyramid
  - Great Sphinx of Giza
- Heliopolis (Modern: "Tell-Hisn", Ancient: "Iunu")
- Letopolis (Modern: "Ausim", Ancient: "Khem")
Hermopolis Parva (Modern: "El-Baqliya" Ancient: "Ba'h")
Iseum (Modern: "Behbeit el-Hagar", Ancient: "Hebyt")
Kom el-Hisn (Ancient: "Imu" or "Yamu")
Leontopolis (Yahudiya) (Modern: "Tell el-Yahudiya", Ancient: "Nay-Ta-Hut")
Leontopolis (Modern: "Tell el-Muqdam")
Naukratis (Modern: "el-Gi'eif", "el-Niqrash","el-Nibeira")
Memphite Necropolis (
Memphis)
- Abu Ghurab
- Abusir (Busiris)
- Dahshur
  - Bent Pyramid
  - Black Pyramid
  - Red Pyramid
  - White Pyramid
- Helwan
- Mit Rahina
- Saqqara
  - Sekhemkhet's Buried Pyramid
  - Gisr el-mudir
  - Haram el-Shawaf
  - Mazghuna
  - Pyramid of Teti
  - Pyramid of Unas
  - Pyramid of Userkaf
  - Step Pyramid of Djozer
- Zawyet el'Aryan
Mendes (Modern: "Tell el-Rub'a", Ancient: "'Anpet")
- Tell Tebilla
Qantir / El-Khata'na
Sais (Modern: "Sa el-Hagar", Ancient: "Zau")
Saft el-Hinna (Ancient: "Per-Sopdu")
Sebennytos (Modern: "Samannud", Ancient: "Tjebnutjer")
Shagamba
Suwa
Taposiris Magna (Modern: "Abusir")
Tanis (Modern: "San el-Hagar", Ancient: "Djan'net")
Tell el-Maskhuta (Ancient: "Tjeku")
Tell el-Rataba
Tell el-Sahaba
Tell Nabasha
Tell Qua'
Terenuthis (Modern: "Kom Abu Billo")
Thmuis (Modern: "Tell el-Timai")
Tura
Xois (Modern: "Sakha")

[edit] Middle Egypt

The area from about Al Fayyum to Asyut is usually referred to as Middle Egypt.

Akoris (Modern: "Tihna el-Gebel")
- Frazer Tombs
Ankyronon Polis (Modern: "el-Hiba", Ancient: "Teudjoi")
Antinoopolis (Modern: "el-Sheikh 'Ibada")
Deir el-Gabrawi
Deir el-Bersha
Dishasha
Dja (Modern: "Medinet Madi" Ancient: "Narmouthis")
el-'Amarna (Ancient: "Akhetaten")
el-Sheikh Sa'id
Faiyum
- Crocodilopolis (Hellenistic: "Arsinoe")
- el-Lahun
- el-Lisht
- Hawara
- Herakleopolis Magna (Modern: "Ihnasiyyah al-Madinah", Ancient: "Henen-Nesut")
- Kom Medinet Ghurab
- Meidum
- Sidment el-Gebel
- Seila
Hermopolis Magna (Modern: "el-Ashmunein", Ancient: "Khmun")
Hebenu (Modern: "Kom el-Ahmar")
- Beni Hasan
- Speos Artemidos (Modern: "Istabl 'Antar")
- Zawyet el-Maiyitin
Hur (Ancient: "Herwer")
Lykopolis (Modern: "Asyut", Ancient: "Zawty")
Meir
Oxyrhynchus (Modern: "el-Bahnasa", Ancient: "Per-Medjed")
Sharuna
Tuna el-Gebel

[edit] Upper Egypt

[edit] Northern Upper Egypt

Abydos (Ancient: "Abedju")
- el-'Araba el Madfuna
- Kom el-Sultan
- Umm el-Qa'ab
- Shunet ez Zebib
- Osireion
Apollinopolis Parva (Modern: "Qus", Ancient: "Gesa" or "Gesy")
- Qus Necropolis
Antaeopolis (Modern: "Qaw el-Kebir", Ancient: "Tjebu" or "Djew-Qa")
Athribis (Modern: "Wannina", Ancient: "Hut-Repyt")
Beit Khallaf
Tentyris (Modern: "Dendera", Ancient: "Iunet" or "Tantere")
- Temple of Hathor
Diospolis Parva (Modern: "Hiw", Ancient: "Hut-Sekhem")
el-Hawawish
el-Salamuni
Khemmis or Panopolis (Modern: "Akhmin", Ancient: "Ipu" or "Khent-Min")
Khenoboskion (Modern: "el-Qasr", "el-Saiyad")
Koptos (Modern: "Qift", Ancient: "Gebtu")
Naga ed-Der
Nag' el-Madamud (Ancient: "Mabu")
Ombos (Naqada) (Modern: "Naqada", Ancient: "Nubt")
Shanhur

[edit] Southern Upper Egypt

Aphroditopolis (Modern: "Gebelein", Ancient: "Per-Hathor")
Apollinopolis Magna (Modern: "Edfu", Ancient: "Djeba, Mesen")
Aswan
- Agilkia Island
- Elephantine Island
- New Kalabsha
- Northern Granite Quarries
- Philae Island
- Qubbet el-Hawa
- Sehel Island
- Southern Granite Quarries
el-Mo'alla (Ancient: "Hefat")
Eileithyiaspolis (Modern: "el-Kab", Ancient: "Nekheb")
Gebel el-Silsila (Ancient: "Kheny")
Hermonthis (Modern: "Armant", Ancient: "Iuny")
Hierakonpolis (Modern: "Kom el-Ahmar", Ancient: "Nekhen")
- Kom al-Ahmar Necropolis
Kom Ombo
- Ombos (Modern: "Kom Ombo", Ancient: "Nubt")
Latopolis (Modern: "Esna", Ancient: "Iunyt, Senet, Tasenet")
Thebes (Modern: "Luxor", Ancient: "Niwt-rst" or "Waset")
- Deir el-Medina
  - Temple of Hathor
  - Workmen's Village
  - Workmen's Tombs
  - Shrine to Meretseger & Ptah
- Deir el-Bahri
  - Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut
  - Mortuary Temple of Mentuhotep II
  - Mortuary Temple of Thotmose III
- el-Malqata
  - Palace of Amenhotep III
  - Deir el-Shelwit
- Karnak (Ancient: "Ipet-Isut")
  - Temple of Amenhotep IV
  - Precinct of Amon-Re
  - Precinct of Montu
  - Precinct of Mut
- Luxor (Ancient: "Ipet-Resyt")
  - Temple of Amun
- Medinet Habu
  - Mortuary Temple & Palace of Ramesses III
  - Mortuary Temple of Ay & Horemheb
- Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III
  - Colossi of Memnon
- Mortuary Temple of Merneptah
- Mortuary Temple of Ramesses IV
- Mortuary Temple of Thutmose IV
- Mortuary Temple of Thutmose III
- Qasr el-'Aguz
  - Temple of Thoth
- Qurna
  - Mortuary Temple of Seti I
- Tombs of the Nobles
  - el-Assasif
  - el-Khokha
  - el-Tarif
  - Dra' Abu el-Naga'
  - Qurnet Murai
  - Sheikh Abd el-Qurna
- Ramesseum (Mortuary Temple of Ramesses II)
- Valley of the Kings (Modern: "Wadi el-Muluk")
- Valley of the Queens (Modern: "Biban el-Harim")
Tuphium (Modern: "Tod", Ancient: "Djerty")

[edit] Lower Nubia

'Amada
Abu Simbel
Beit el-Wali
Contra Pselchis (Modern: "Quban", Ancient: "Baki")
Dabod
el-Derr
el-Lessiya
el-Sebu'a
Gerf Hussein
Mi'am (Modern: "'Aniba")
Primis (Modern: "Qasr Ibrim")
Pselchis (Modern: "el-Dakka", Ancient: "Pselqet")
Talmis (Modern: "Kalabsha")
Taphis (Modern: "Tafa")
Tutzis (Modern: "Dendur")
Tzitzis (Modern: "Qertassi")

[edit] Upper Nubia

'Amara East
'Amara West
Abahuda (Abu Oda)
Aksha (Serra West)
Askut Island
Buhen
Dabenarti Island
Dibeira East
Dorginarti Island
Dibeira West
Faras
Gebel el-Shams
Kor
Kumma (Semna East)
Meinarti Island
Qustul
Semna
Semna South
Serra East
Shalfak
Uroarti Island

[edit] The Oases

Siwa Oasis
- Aghurmi
- el-Zeitun
- Gebel el-Mawta
- Qaret el-Musabberin
- Umm el-'Ebeida
Bahriya Oasis
- el-Qasr
- el-Bawiti
- el-Hayz
Farafra Oasis
- 'Ain el-Wadi
- el-Qasr
el-Dakhla Oasis
- Amheida
- Balat
- Deir el-Hager
- el-Qasr
- Kellis (Modern: "Ismant el-Kharab")
- Mut el-Kharab
- Qaret el-Muzawwaqa
el-Kharga Oasis
- Baris
- Gebel el-Teir
- Hibis
- Kysis (Modern: "Dush")
- Nadurs
- Qasr el-Ghueida
- Qasr Zaiyan

[edit] Sinai

Maghara
Rud el-'Air
Serabit el-Khadim
Tell Kedwa

[edit] Eastern Desert

Wadi Hammamat

[edit] Reference

Atlas of Ancient Egypt, John Baines & Jaromir Malek, The America University of Cairo Press, 2002

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