Archaeological Sites in Egypt
Bent Pyramid
The Bent Pyramid is one of the Old Kingdom Pyramids at Giza, Egypt; built in the 4th Dynasty, 2680-2565 B.C. by that wizard of architects, Imhotep.
Alexandria
The modern town of Alexandria, Egypt, was the capital city of the Ptolemaic dynasties of Egypt.
Abu Ghurab
Abu Ghurab is a 5th dynasty (Old Kingdom, 2465-2323 BC) Egyptian pyramid and solar temple complex on the Saqqara plateau.
Dashur North
Archaeological investigations at Waseda University of this New Kingdom tomb-chapel; the site includes VRML and Quicktime movies of the reconstructed structures. English and Japanese.
Bent Pyramid
The Bent Pyramid is one of the Old Kingdom Pyramids at Giza, Egypt; built in the 4th Dynasty, 2680-2565 B.C. by that wizard of architects, Imhotep.
Abu Simbel
Abu Simbel is a temple built by Ramesses II (Pharaoh of the 19th Dynasty of the New Kingdom, who ruled 1279-1213 BC) in Nubia, now part of Egypt.
Abydos
Abydos is an Early Dynastic city and necropolis in Egypt, built ca 3150 BC by Seti I and sacred to Osiris.
Hierakonpolis Online
The "City of the Hawk," Hierankonpolis was built during the predynastic period. This web site includes information on the archaeological work at the site.
Amarna
Amarna is the modern name given to the capital city of Akhetaten, the heretic pharaoh of the 18th Egyptian dynasty Akhenaten, built about 1350 BC and abandoned at his death 20 years later.
Oxyrhynchus
Oxyrhynchus, or Waste Paper City; a beautiful exhibition from the Ashmolean Museum, of the site where the town dumps preserved over 50,000 fragments of papyrus, everything from shopping lists to great works of literature.
Saqqara Online
From Leiden University, detailed information on the New Kingdom necropolis of Saqqara.
Sikait
American-Dutch research in the Egyptian Eastern Desert have included among other things, excavations in Sikait, the only large-scale emerald mine of the Roman empire, and potentially used as early as the Ptolemaic period as well.
Sphinx
The ancient Egyptian sculpture called The Sphinx is located on the Giza plateau, and was probably carved at the request of the 4th dynasty pharaoh Khafre (or Cheops).
Ramesseum
The Ramesseum is a massive temple built by the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II during his New Kingdom reign (1279-1213 BC).
Giza Pyramids
The Pyramids of Giza consist of three Old Kingdom burial structures and the Sphinx, all built during the 4th dynasty of ancient Egypt.
Pyramid Texts of Saqqara
The pyramid texts are among the oldest religious writings in the world, found carved on the walls of the Egyptian tombs at Saqqara, and likely dated to the late 5th or early 6th dynasty (about 2435 BC).
The Tomb of Iufaa (Abusir)
A news report from Archaeology magazine, discussing investigations into a 6th century BC tomb at Abusir, by the Czech Institute of Egyptology at Charles University in Prague directed by Miroslav Verner.
Ras Budran
Ras Budran is the name of an Old Kingdom fort, located in the el-Markha Plain on the west coast of the South Sinai peninsula.
The Tomb of Senefferi at Luxor
From Nigel Strudwick, reports on the ongoing excavation of the tomb of Senneferi, one of the engineers of the many tombs in the Valley of the Kings.
The Tomb of Senneferi (TT99)
From Nigel Strudwick, reports on the ongoing excavation of the tomb of Senneferi, one of the engineers of the many tombs in the Valley of the Kings.
Thebes
The Egyptian Middle and New Kingdom capital of Thebes, in the modern town of Luxor Egypt, was first occupied during the Old Kingdom.
Saqqara Plateau
The Saqqara plateau is a flat desert landform close to the modern town of Saqqara, Egypt, used by Egyptian pharaohs since the 2nd Dynasty.
Thebes
Tom Van Eynde of the Oriental Institute has provided some breath-taking photographs of the ancient city of Thebes to the University of Chicago's server.
Serabit el-Khadem
The archaeological site of Serabit el-Khadem is on the Sinai peninsula, on a small plateau north of the modern town of al-Tor.
Step Pyramid of Djoser (Egypt)
The Step Pyramid of Djoser was one of the earliest of the pyramids built in Egypt, during the Old Kingdom's 3rd Dynasty about 2800 BC.