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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

Where

When

Showing 22 of 49 landmarks in Cairo & Giza · Show every landmark

c. 2600 BC

They built to be seen

11 places

Later Egypt

beyond the four chapters

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

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.

Read the storyTours through it
  1. 1 · c. 2600 BCThey built to be seen
  2. 2 · c. 1500 BCThey built to be hidden
  3. 3 · c. 1264 BCPower carved into a cliff
  4. 4 · c. 200 BCThey built to remember
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