- List of ancient Egyptian sites
This is a List of Ancient Egyptian Sites, throughout all of
Egypt andNubia . Sites are listed by their classical name whenever possible, if not by their modern name, and lastly with their ancient name if no other is available.Nomes
A nome is a subnational administrative division of Ancient Egypt.
Lower Egypt
*Nome 1: White fortress
*Nome 2: Cow's thigh
*Nome 3: West
*Nome 4: Southern shield
*Nome 5: Northern shield
*Nome 6: Mountain bull
*Nome 7: West harpoon
*Nome 8: East harpoon
*Nome 9: Anezti
*Nome 10: Black bull
*Nome 11: Heseb bull
*Nome 12: Cow with calf (Calf and Cow)
*Nome 13: Undamaged scepter
*Nome 14: East or anterior nome
*Nome 15: Ibis
*Nome 16: Dolphin (Fish)
*Nome 17: The throne
*Nome 18: Royal child upper nome (Prince of the South)
*Nome 19: Royal child lower nome (Prince of the North)
*Nome 20: East (Plumed Falcon)Upper Egypt
*Nome 1: Land of the arch or To Khentit: the frontier (Ta-Seti)
*Nome 2: Throne of Horus
*Nome 3: The rural (Shrine)
*Nome 4: The sceptre
*Nome 5: The two falcons
*Nome 6: The crocodile
*Nome 7: Sistrum
*Nome 8: Great land
*Nome 9: Minu (Min)
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*Nome 11: The Set animal (Seth)
*Nome 12: Viper mountain
*Nome 13: Upper pomegranate tree (Upper Sycamore and Viper)
*Nome 14: Lower pomegranate tree (Lower Sycamore and Viper)
*Nome 15: Hare
*Nome 16: Oryx
*Nome 17: The black dog (Jackal)
*Nome 18: Falcon with spread wings (Nemty)
*Nome 19: The pure sceptre (Two Sceptres)
*Nome 20: Upper laurel (Southern Sycamore)
*Nome 21: Lower laurel (Northern Sycamore)
*Nome 22: Knife
=Lower Egypt (The Nile Delta)=
*Alexandria
** Great Library of Alexandria
** Pharos of Alexandria
** Pompey's Pillar
*Athribis (Modern: "Tell Atrib", Ancient: "Hut-Heryib" or "Hut-Tahery-Ibt")
*Avaris (Modern: "Tell el-Dab'a", Ancient: "Pi-Ri'amsese")
*Behbeit el-Hagar
*Bilbeis
*Bubastis (Modern: "Tell Basta", Ancient: "Bast")
* Busiris (Modern: "Abu Sir Bana")
*Buto (Modern: "Tell el-Fara'in", Ancient: "Pe")
*Cairo (or near Cairo)
**Abu Rawash
** Giza Necropolis (Giza Plateau)
*** Khufu's Pyramid (Great Pyramid)
***Khafre's Pyramid
***Menkaure's Pyramid
***Great Sphinx of Giza
** Heliopolis (Modern: "Tell-Hisn", Ancient: "Iunu")
**Letopolis (Modern: "Ausim", Ancient: "Khem")
* Hermopolis Parva (Modern: "El-Baqliya" Ancient: "Ba'h")
*Iseum (Modern: "Behbeit el-Hagar", Ancient: "Hebyt")
*Kom el-Hisn (Ancient: "Imu" or "Yamu")
*Leontopolis (Yahudiya) (Modern: "Tell el-Yahudiya", Ancient: "Nay-Ta-Hut")
*Leontopolis (Modern: "Tell el-Muqdam")
* Naukratis (Modern: "el-Gi'eif", "el-Niqrash","el-Nibeira")
*Memphite Necropolis (Memphis)
** Abu Ghurab
**Abusir (Busiris)
**Dahshur
***Bent Pyramid
***Black Pyramid
***Red Pyramid
***White Pyramid
**Helwan
**Mit Rahina
**Saqqara
***Sekhemkhet 'sBuried Pyramid
***Gisr el-mudir
***Haram el-Shawaf
***Mazghuna
***Pyramid of Teti
***Pyramid of Unas
***Pyramid of Userkaf
*** Step Pyramid of Djozer
**Zawyet el'Aryan
*Mendes (Modern: "Tell el-Rub'a", Ancient: "'Anpet")
**Tell Tebilla
*Qantir /El-Khata'na
* Sais (Modern: "Sa el-Hagar", Ancient: "Zau")
*Saft el-Hinna (Ancient: "Per-Sopdu")
*Sebennytos (Modern: "Samannud", Ancient: "Tjebnutjer")
*Shagamba
* Suwa
*Taposiris Magna (Modern: "Abusir")
* Tanis (Modern: "San el-Hagar", Ancient: "Djan'net")
*Tell el-Maskhuta (Ancient: "Tjeku")
*Tell el-Rataba
*Tell el-Sahaba
*Tell Nabasha
*Tell Qua'
*Terenuthis (Modern: "Kom Abu Billo")
*Thmuis (Modern: "Tell el-Timai")
* Tura
*Xois (Modern: "Sakha")Middle Egypt
The area from about
Al Fayyum toAsyut is usually referred to as Middle Egypt.
* Akoris (Modern: "Tihna el-Gebel")
**Fraser Tombs
* Ankyronpolis (Modern: "el-Hiba", Ancient: "Teudjoi")
*Antinoopolis (Modern: "el-Sheikh 'Ibada")
*Deir el-Bersha
*Deir el-Gabrawi
*Dishasha
* Dja (Modern: "Medinet Madi" Ancient: "Narmouthis")
* el-'Amarna (Ancient: "Akhetaten")
*el-Sheikh Sa'id
* Faiyum
**Crocodilopolis (Hellenistic : "Arsinoe")
**el-Lahun
**el-Lisht
**Hawara
**Herakleopolis Magna (Modern: "Ihnasiyyah al-Madinah", Ancient: "Henen-Nesut")
**Kom Medinet Ghurab
**Meidum
**Sidment el-Gebel
**Seila
** Tarkhan
*Hermopolis Magna (Modern: "El Ashmunein", Ancient: "Khmun")
*Hebenu (Modern: "Kom el-Ahmar")
**Beni Hasan
**Speos Artemidos (Modern: "Istabl 'Antar")
**Zawyet el-Maiyitin
* Hur (Ancient: "Herwer")
*Lykopolis (Modern: "Asyut", Ancient: "Zawty")
* Meir
*Oxyrhynchus (Modern: "el-Bahnasa", Ancient: "Per-Medjed")
*Sharuna
*Tuna el-Gebel Upper Egypt Northern Upper Egypt
* Abydos (Ancient: "Abedju")
**el-'Araba el Madfuna
**Kom el-Sultan
**Umm el-Qa'ab
**Shunet ez Zebib
**Osireion
* Apollinopolis Parva (Modern: "Qus", Ancient: "Gesa" or "Gesy")
**Qus Necropolis
*Antaeopolis (Modern: "Qaw el-Kebir", Ancient: "Tjebu" or "Djew-Qa")
*Athribis (Modern: "Wannina", Ancient: "Hut-Repyt")
*Beit Khallaf
* Tentyris (Modern: "Dendera", Ancient: "Iunet" or "Tantere")
** Temple of Hathor
*Diospolis Parva (Modern: "Hiw", Ancient: "Hut-Sekhem")
*el-Hawawish
*el-Salamuni
* Khemmis orPanopolis (Modern: "Akhmin", Ancient: "Ipu" or "Khent-Min")
*Khenoboskion (Modern: "el-Qasr", "el-Saiyad")
*Koptos (Modern: "Qift", Ancient: "Gebtu")
*Naga ed-Der
*Nag' el-Madamud (Ancient: "Mabu")
* Ombos (Naqada) (Modern: "Naqada", Ancient: "Nubt")
*Shanhur Southern Upper Egypt
*Aphroditopolis (Modern: "Gebelein", Ancient: "Per-Hathor")
* Apollinopolis Magna (Modern: "Edfu", Ancient: "Djeba, Mesen")
*Aswan
**Agilkia Island
**Elephantine Island
**New Kalabsha
**Northern Granite Quarries
**Philae Island
**Qubbet el-Hawa
**Sehel Island
**Southern Granite Quarries
*el-Mo'alla (Ancient: "Hefat")
*Eileithyiaspolis (Modern: "el-Kab", Ancient: "Nekheb")
*Gebel el-Silsila (Ancient: "Kheny")
*Hermonthis (Modern: "Armant", Ancient: "Iuny")
*Hierakonpolis (Modern: "Kom el-Ahmar", Ancient: "Nekhen")
**Kom al-Ahmar Necropolis
*Kom Ombo
** Ombos (Modern: "Kom Ombo", Ancient: "Nubt")
*Latopolis (Modern: "Esna", Ancient: "Iunyt, Senet, Tasenet")
*Medamud
* Thebes (Modern: "Luxor", Ancient: "Niwt-rst" or "Waset")
** Deir el-Medina
***Temple of Hathor
*** Workmen's Village
*** Workmen's Tombs
***Shrine to Meretseger & Ptah
**Deir el-Bahri
*** Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut
*** Mortuary Temple of Mentuhotep II
*** Mortuary Temple of Thotmose III
** el-Malqata
*** Palace of Amenhotep III
*** Deir el-Shelwit
**Karnak (Ancient: "Ipet-Isut")
***Temple of Amenhotep IV
***Precinct of Amon-Re
***Precinct of Montu
***Precinct of Mut
**Luxor (Ancient: "Ipet-Resyt")
*** Temple of Amun
**Medinet Habu
*** Mortuary Temple & Palace of Ramesses III
***Mortuary Temple of Ay & Horemheb
**Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III
***Colossi of Memnon
**Mortuary Temple of Merneptah
**Mortuary Temple of Ramesses IV
**Mortuary Temple of Thutmose IV
**Mortuary Temple of Thutmose III
**Qasr el-'Aguz
***Temple of Thoth
** Qurna
***Mortuary Temple of Seti I
**Tombs of the Nobles
***el-Assasif
***el-Khokha
***el-Tarif
***Dra' Abu el-Naga'
***Qurnet Murai
***Sheikh Abd el-Qurna
**Ramesseum (Mortuary Temple of Ramesses II)
**Valley of the Kings (Modern: "Wadi el-Muluk")
**Valley of the Queens (Modern: "Biban el-Harim")
*Tuphium (Modern: "Tod", Ancient: "Djerty")Lower Nubia
*Amada
*Abu Simbel
*Beit el-Wali
*Contra Pselchis (Modern: "Quban", Ancient: "Baki")
*Debod
*Temple of Dakka
*Temple of Derr
*el-Lessiya
*Gerf Hussein
*Mi'am (Modern: "'Aniba")
*Primis (Modern: "Qasr Ibrim")
*Pselchis (Modern: "el-Dakka", Ancient: "Pselqet")
* Talmis (Modern: "Kalabsha")
*Qasr Ibrim
*Wadi es-Sebua
*Taphis (Modern: "Tafa")
*Tutzis (Modern: "Dendur")
* Tzitzis (Modern: "Qertassi")Upper Nubia
*'Amara East
*'Amara West
*Abahuda (Abu Oda)
*Aksha (Serra West)
*Askut Island
*Buhen
*Dabenarti Island
*Dibeira East
*Dorginarti Island
*Dibeira West
*Faras
*Gebel el-Shams
*Gebel Barkal
* Kor
* Kumma (Semna East)
*Meinarti Island
*Qustul
* Semna
* Semna South
*Serra East
*Shalfak
*Uroarti Island The Oases and Mediterranean coast
*Siwa Oasis
**Aghurmi
**el-Zeitun
**Gebel el-Mawta
**Qaret el-Musabberin
**Umm el-'Ebeida
*Bahriya Oasis
**el-Qasr
**el-Bawiti
**el-Hayz
*Farafra Oasis
**'Ain el-Wadi
**el-Qasr
* el-Dakhla Oasis
**Amheida
** Balat
**Deir el-Hager
**el-Qasr
**Kellis (Modern: "Ismant el-Kharab")
**Mut el-Kharab
**Qaret el-Muzawwaqa
* el-Kharga Oasis
** Baris
**Gebel el-Teir
**Hibis
**Kysis (Modern: "Dush")
**Nadurs
**Qasr el-Ghueida
**Qasr Zaiyan
* Mediterranean Coast
**Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham
= Sinai =*
Maghara
*Rud el-'Air
*Serabit el-Khadim
*Tell Kedwa Eastern Desert
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Wadi Hammamat References
* "Atlas of Ancient Egypt",
John Baines &Jaromir Malek , "The America University of Cairo Press", 2002
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