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
c. 200 BC
They built to remember
4 places
Nile & AswanEdfu TempleThe temple of Horus, whose walls are a library turned outwards.
Nile & AswanKom Ombo TempleA temple built twice over, side by side, for the crocodile and the falcon.
Nile & AswanPhilaeThe island that was moved.
DenderaTemple of DenderaThe house of Hathor, where the goddess was carried onto the roof each New Year to meet the rising sun.
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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