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 11 of 49 landmarks in Cairo & Giza, c. 2600 BC · Show every landmark

c. 2600 BC

They built to be seen

11 places

Cairo & GizaDahshurWhere the Egyptians learned how to build a pyramid, by getting it wrong first.
Cairo & GizaGiza PlateauThree generations of kings built here; the plateau asks who did the building, and how they lived.
Cairo & GizaPyramid Complex of KhafreThe pyramid that looks tallest at Giza and isn't.
Cairo & GizaPyramid Complex of MenkaureThe smallest of the three Giza pyramids, and the most revealing, because it was never finished.
Cairo & GizaPyramid Complex of TetiFrom outside, a heap of rubble; inside, one of the oldest libraries of religious writing.
Cairo & GizaSaqqaraIf Giza is a single statement, Saqqara is a conversation that lasts nearly four thousand years.
Cairo & GizaStep Pyramid Complex of DjoserThe first building in Egypt of truly monumental scale built throughout of stone.
Cairo & GizaThe Bent PyramidA pyramid that changes its mind halfway up.
Cairo & GizaThe Great Pyramid of KhufuThe largest pyramid in Egypt, and the last of the Seven Wonders still standing.
Cairo & GizaThe Great SphinxA king's head on a lion's body, cut from the living rock at the foot of Khafre's causeway.
Cairo & GizaThe Red PyramidThe first pyramid that worked.

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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