Egyptian Monuments

At Nadura, whose name means ‘The Lookout’, remains of a temple once enclosed within a Roman fortification are strategically perched high on a hilltop about 1.5km north-east of the centre of e...

https://egyptsites.wordpress.com/2011/03/12/fortress-temple-at-nadura/

Most visitors to Farafra Oasis go there to see the White Desert, el-Sahara el-Beida, the area to the north-east of Qasr el-Farafra which is renowned for its spectacular scenery. The chalk-white l...

https://egyptsites.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/the-white-desert/

The oasis of Farafra is a triangular-shaped fertile depression to the north-west of Dakhla and roughly mid-way between Dakhla and Bahariya, with the impenetrable Great Sand Sea bordering the regi...

https://egyptsites.wordpress.com/2011/03/10/farafra-oasis-2/

Directly opposite the town of Edfu, the Wadi Abbad enters the Eastern Desert. This ancient route was once a main artery from the classical town of Contra Apollinopolis (modern Edfu) to the import...

https://egyptsites.wordpress.com/2010/09/30/kanais/

Egypt’s Eastern Desert stretches southwards from the Sinai peninsula to the border of Sudan, covering a narrow area between the Red Sea and the Nile Valley.  This barren mountainous region has...

https://egyptsites.wordpress.com/2010/09/25/introduction-to-the-eastern-desert/

Wadi Hammamat is one of a great number of dry river beds that wind through the rugged mountains of Egypt’s Eastern Desert and the modern road that runs through it connects Qift (Greek Coptos) t...

https://egyptsites.wordpress.com/2010/09/14/wadi-hammamat/

The spur of mountain now known as Thoth Hill is at the very northerly point of the Theban necropolis and an exhausting three hour hike from the road leading to the Valley of the Kings, just past ...

https://egyptsites.wordpress.com/2010/09/09/thoth-hill/

Once an important village on the east bank of the Nile, 20km north of Luxor, Shenhur is a little-visited site just to the south of the town of Qus. The Arabic name of the village is derived from ...

https://egyptsites.wordpress.com/2010/09/07/the-temple-of-isis-at-shenhur/

Gebel Silsila is the name given to a rocky gorge between Kom Ombo and Edfu where the River Nile narrows and high sandstone cliffs come right down to the water’s edge. There was probably a seri...

https://egyptsites.wordpress.com/2010/09/01/gebel-silsila/

A ridge that runs along the eastern edge of the North Saqqara escarpment, all the way to Abusir, has been found to contain the Early Dynastic burials of many Dynasty I and Dynasty II elite. First...

https://egyptsites.wordpress.com/2009/03/28/early-dynastic-tombs-at-saqqara/