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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

The main street of the Fatimid court city, where for eight centuries anyone with power built to be seen.

Open 09:00–17:00 · checked 29 September 2026

The synagogue whose storeroom kept a medieval community's paperwork for centuries.

Open 09:00–16:00 · checked 3 September 2026

A medieval fortress above the whole of Cairo, and the seat of Egypt's rulers for more than six centuries.

Open 08:00–17:00 · checked 3 September 2026

Where the Egyptians learned how to build a pyramid, by getting it wrong first.

Open 08:00–17:00 · checked 3 September 2026

Three generations of kings built here; the plateau asks who did the building, and how they lived.

Open 08:00–16:00 · checked 3 September 2026

A museum whose greatest collections belong to places you can see on the same day.