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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.

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

The monument that ended ancient Egypt's calendar.

The temple of Horus, whose walls are a library turned outwards.

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

A granite island at the first cataract, where Egypt used to end.

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

A temple built twice over, side by side, for the crocodile and the falcon.

Open 07:00–21:00 · checked 15 September 2026

An archive of ancient Nubia that nobody can visit.

A living Nubian village on the west bank at Aswan, facing the island of Sehel.