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A desert valley of fossil whales with legs, from a sea that covered Egypt forty million years ago.

Alexandria's modern library, built as a successor to the most famous library of the ancient world.

A tomb built for the rich that grew into a city of the dead.

Roman Alexandria at street level, uncovered in the middle of the modern city.

Open 09:00–17:00 · checked 3 September 2026

A single column of red granite, standing alone among the ruins of one of Alexandria's great temples.

A Mamluk fortress built on the ruins of the Lighthouse, one of the Seven Wonders.

Open 09:00–20:00 · checked 3 September 2026

Two seated colossi of Amenhotep III, the gatekeepers of a temple the flood once filled.

Not a temple. A temple city.

Open 06:00–17:00 · checked 3 September 2026

The temple the god came to visit.

Open 06:00–20:00 · checked 15 September 2026

Ramesses III's temple and fortress, where the builders of the royal tombs came to demand their pay.

Open 06:00–17:00 · checked 29 September 2026

Hatshepsut's terraced temple against the cliffs, facing Karnak across the river.

Open 06:00–17:00 · checked 3 September 2026

The temple and grain store of Ramesses II, where the fallen colossus of Ozymandias lies.

Open 06:00–17:00 · checked 17 October 2026