Giza Plateau | Ankh | Giza Plateau is located west and south of modern Cairo, in the vast desert imagined by the ancient Egyptians to be the land of the dead. Guarded by the Great Sphinx, the Giza...
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Cairo, which means The Triumphant (Al Qahira) is the capital and largest city of Egypt. It is on the heart of Egypt and it is the Arab World’s largest and Africa’s most populous city. It is near the site of the first capital of unified Egypt, Memphis.
Located near the Nile Delta, it was founded in the year 969 A.D. Nicknamed “The City of a Thousand Minarets” for its preponderance of Islamic architecture.
the city has long been a center of the region’s political and cultural life. It was founded by the Fatimid caliphs as a royal enclosure. It replaced Fustat as the seat of the government. It later came under the Mamluks, was ruled by the Ottomans 1517 to 1798, and briefly occupied by Napoleon.
Muhammad Ali of Egypt made Al Qahira the capital of his independent empire from 1805 to 1882, after which the British took control of it until Egyptian revolution in July 1952.
Giza Plateau | Ankh | Giza Plateau is located west and south of modern Cairo, in the vast desert imagined by the ancient Egyptians to be the land of the dead. Guarded by the Great Sphinx, the Giza...
Pyramid of Djoser | Ankh | The most prominent monument at Saqqara is the Step Pyramid of Djoser, first king of the 3rd Dynasty (ca. 2650-2575 BC). This structure, believed to have been designed by a...
Temple of Ptah | Ankh | The few remaining ruins of the great city of Memphis are located mainly around the small village of Mit Rahina. Egypt’s administrative capital was located in this...
Black Pyramid | Ankh | Though stripped of its limestone casing and somewhat eroded, The Pyramid of Amenemhat III at Hawara or the Black Pyramid remains remarkable for its complex system of secret...
Dahshur Pyramids | Ankh | The pyramid field of Dahshur lies about 10 km south of Saqqara. The Pyramids here include the famed Bent and Red Pyramids built by the 4th Dynasty king Senefru (father of...
Cairo Citadel | Ankh | Cairo Citadel , or The Citadel of the Mountain (Qal‘at al-Jabal) in Cairo is one of the major works of military architecture of the middle ages. Situated on a spur that was...
Saqqara | Ankh | Saqqara is located south of modern Cairo, on the west bank of the Nile river, and covers an area over 6 km long and more than 1.5 km wide. It was once part of a larger system of...
Heliopolis | Ankh | The ruins of ancient Heliopolis (also known as Iunu and On), center of the cult of the sun god Ra, are now covered by the Cairo suburb of Matariyya and few monuments are visible...
Abusir pyramids | Ankh | Abusir is located in the desert west of Cairo, between Giza and Saqqara. The site is dominated by the remains of seven pyramid complexes, five of which can be deated securely...
