Landmarks

Who each place is, before you stand in it.

Every landmark our tours visit, in the order of the story they tell: who built it, what happened there, and what you see. Choose a place or an era, or read the story for how they connect.

Landmarks: 49
Chapters of the story: 4
Towns and sites: 14

Showing 5 of 49 landmarks in Alexandria, beyond the four chapters · Show every landmark

Later Egypt

beyond the four chapters

5 places · museums, Roman Alexandria, medieval Cairo and modern Aswan

AlexandriaBibliotheca AlexandrinaAlexandria's modern library, built as a successor to the most famous library of the ancient world.
AlexandriaCatacombs of Kom el-ShoqafaA tomb built for the rich that grew into a city of the dead.
AlexandriaKom el-DikkaRoman Alexandria at street level, uncovered in the middle of the modern city.
AlexandriaPompey's PillarA single column of red granite, standing alone among the ruins of one of Alexandria's great temples.
AlexandriaQaitbay FortA Mamluk fortress built on the ruins of the Lighthouse, one of the Seven Wonders.

The story that connects them

Egypt kept reimagining eternity.

Four chapters across more than two thousand years: pyramids built to be seen, tombs built to be hidden, a temple cut into a cliff, and temples built to remember.

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