List of Ancient Egyptian sites
List of Ancient Egyptian sites, throughout all of Egypt and Nubia
Sites are listed with their classical name whenever possible, else their modern name and last if no other available their ancient name.
- Alexandria
- 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: "Abusir")
- Buto (Modern: "Tell el-Fara'in", Ancient: "Pe")
- Cairo (or near Cairo)
- El-Baqliya
- El-Khata'na
- Iseum (Modern: "Behbeit el-Hagar", Ancient: "Hebyt")
- Kom el-Hisn (Ancient: "Imu")
- 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)
- Mendes (Modern: "Tell el-Rub'a", Ancient: "'Anpet")
- Qantir
- 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")
- Xois (Modern: "Sakha")
Middle Egypt
- Akoris (Modern: "Tihna el-Gebel")
- Ankyronon Polis (Modern: "el-Hiba", Ancient: "Teudjoi")
- Antinoopolis (Modern: "el-Sheikh 'Ibada")
- Beni Hasan
- Deir el-Gabrawi
- Deir el-Bersha
- Dishasha
- el-'Amarna (Ancient: "Akhetaten")
- el-Lahum
- el-Sheikh Sa'id
- Faiyum
- Fraser Tombs
- Hermopolis Magna (Modern: "el-Ashmunein", Ancient: "Khmun")
- Hur (Ancient: "Herwer")
- Lykopolis (Modern: "Asyut", Ancient: "Zawty")
- Meir
- Oxyrhynchus (Modern: "el-Bahnasa", Ancient: "Per-Medjed")
- Sharuna
- Speos Artemidos (Modern: "Istabl 'Antar")
- Tuna el-Gebel
- Zawyet el-Maiyitin
Northern Upper Egypt
- Abydos (Ancient: "Abedju")
- el-'Araba el Madfuna
- Kom el-Sultan
- Umm el-Qa'ab
- Apollinopolis Parva (Modern: "Qus", Ancient: "Gesa" or "Gesy")
- 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")
- Diospolis Parva (Modern: "Hiw", Ancient: "Hut-Sekhem")
- el-Hawawish
- el-Salamuni
- Khemmis or Panopolis (Modern: "Akhmin", Ancient: "Ipu" or "Khent-Min")
- Khenoboskion (Modern: "el-Qasr", "el-Saiyad")
- Koptos (Modern: "Qift", Ancient: "Gebtu")
- Nag' el-Madamud (Ancient: "Mabu")
- Ombos (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 Ombo
- Ombos (Modern: "Kom Ombo", Ancient: "Nubt")
- Latopolis (Modern: "Esna", Ancient: "Iunyt, Senet, Tasenet")
- Thebes (Modern: "Luxor", Ancient: "Niwt-rst" or "Waset")
- Deir el-Medina
- Temple of Hathor
- Workmen's Village
- Deir el-Bahri
- Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut
- Mortuary Temple of Mentuhotep
- Temple of Amun
- Deir el-Shelwit
- Dra' Abu el-Naga'
- el-Malqata
- el-Tarif
- Karnak (Ancient: "Ipet-Isut")
- Temple of Amenhotep IV
- Precinct of Amon-Re
- Precinct of Montu
- Precinct of Mut
- Luxor (Ancient: "Ipet-Resyt")
- Medinet Habu
- Mortuary Temple & Palace of Ramesses III
- Mortuary Temple of Aya & Haremhab
- Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III
- Mortuary Temple of Merneptah
- Mortuary Temple of Ramesses IV
- Mortuary Temple of Thutmose IV
- Mortuary Temple of Thutmose III
- Qasr el-'Aguz
- Qurna
- Mortuary Temple of Seti I
- 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")
- 'Amada
- Abu Simbel
- Beit el-Wali
- Contra Pselchis (Modern: "Quban", Ancient: "Baki")
- Dabod
- el-Derr
- el-Lessiya
- el-Sebu'a
- Gerf Hussein
- Mi'am (Modern: "'Aniba")
- Primis (Modern: "Qasr Ibrim")
- Pselchis (Modern: "el-Dakka", Ancient: "Pselqet")
- Talmis (Modern: "Kalabsha")
- 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
- Kor
- Kumma (Semna East)
- Meinarti Island
- Qustul
- Semna
- Semna South
- Serra East
- Shalfak
- Uroarti Island
The Oases
- Siwa Oasis
- Aghurmi
- el-Zeitun
- Gebel el-Mawta
- Qaret el-Musabberin
- Umm el-'Ebeida
- Bahriya Oasis
- el-Qasr
- el-Bawiti
- el-Hayz
- Farafra Oasis
- 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
- Maghara
- Rud el-'Air
- Serabit el-Khadim
Reference
- Atlas of Ancient Egypt, John Baines & Jaromir Malek , The America University of Cairo Press, 2002
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