List of ancient Egyptian sites

List of ancient Egyptian sites
This is a list of ancient Egyptian sites, throughout all of Egypt and Nubia. 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 Walls
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: Andjety
Nome 10: Black bull
Nome 11: Heseb bull
Nome 12: Calf and Cow
Nome 13: Prospering Scepter
Nome 14: Eastmost
Nome 15: Fish
Nome 16: Djehuti
Nome 17: The Throne
Nome 18: Prince of the South
Nome 19: Prince of the North
Nome 20: Plumed Falcon
Upper Egypt
Nome 1: Land of the bow
Nome 2: Throne of Horus
Nome 3: The Shrine
Nome 4: The sceptre
Nome 5: The two falcons
Nome 6: The crocodile / Dendera
Nome 7: Sistrum
Nome 8: Great lands
Nome 9: Minu (Min)
Nome 10: Cobra
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")
Kom-el-Gir
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)
Pyramid of Neferefre
Pyramid of Neferirkare
Pyramid of Nyuserre
Pyramid of Sahure
Sun temple of Nyuserre
Sun temple of Userkaf
Dahshur
Bent Pyramid
Black Pyramid
Red Pyramid
White Pyramid
Helwan
Mazghuna
Northern Mazghuna pyramid
Southern Mazghuna pyramid
Mit Rahina
Saqqara
Sekhemkhet's Buried Pyramid
Gisr el-mudir
Haram el-Shawaf
Pyramid of Ibi
Pyramid of Khendjer
Pyramid of Teti
Pyramid of Unas
Pyramid of Userkaf
Step Pyramid of Djoser
Southern South Saqqara pyramid
Zawyet el'Aryan
Layer Pyramid
Unfinished Northern Pyramid of 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 Nebesha
Tell Qua'
Terenuthis (Modern: "Kom Abu Billo")
Thmuis (Modern: "Tell el-Timai")
Tura
Xois (Modern: "Sakha")
Middle Egypt
The area from about Faiyum to Asyut is usually referred to as Middle Egypt.
Akoris (Modern: "Tihna el-Gebel")
Fraser Tombs
Amarna (Ancient: "Akhetaten")
Ankyronpolis (Modern: "el-Hiba", Ancient: "Teudjoi")
Antinoöpolis (Modern: "el-Sheikh 'Ibada")
Dara
Pyramid of Khui
Deir el-Bersha
Deir el-Gabrawi
Dishasha
Dja (Modern: "Medinet Madi" Ancient: "Narmouthis")
El-Sheikh Sa'id
Faiyum
Crocodilopolis (Roman period: "Arsinoe", Ancient: "Shedet")
el-Lahun
Hawara
Herakleopolis Magna (Modern: "Ihnasiyyah al-Madinah", Ancient: "Henen-Nesut")
Kom Medinet Gurob
Lisht
Meidum
Sidment el-Gebel
Soknopaiou Nesos
Tarkhan
Hermopolis Magna (Modern: "El Ashmunein", Ancient: "Khmun")
Hebenu (Modern: "Kom el-Ahmar")
Beni Hasan
Speos Artemidos (Modern: "Istabl 'Antar")
Zawyet el-Maiyitin
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")
Antaeopolis (Modern: "Qaw el-Kebir", Ancient: "Tjebu" or "Djew-Qa")
Ar Raqāqinah (Known as "Reqaqnah")
Athribis (Modern: "Wannina", Ancient: "Hut-Repyt")
Beit Khallaf
Diospolis Parva (Modern: "Hiw", Ancient: "Hut-Sekhem")
el-Hawawish
el-Salamuni
Khemmis or Panopolis (Modern: "Akhmin", Ancient: "Ipu" or "Khent-Min")
El Hawawish
El Salamuni
Gebel el-Haridi
Idfa
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")
Shanhûr
Southern Upper Egypt
Aphroditopolis (Modern: "Gebelein", Ancient: "Per-Hathor")
Apollinopolis Magna (Modern: "Edfu", Ancient: "Djeba, Mesen")
Aswan
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
Iu-miteru
Kom Ombo
Latopolis (Modern: "Esna", Ancient: "Iunyt, Senet, Tasenet")
Luxor (Ancient: "Ipet-Resyt")
Deir el-Bahari
Qasr el-'Aguz
Qurna
el-Assasif
el-Khokha
el-Tarif
Dra' Abu el-Naga'
Qurnet Murai
Sheikh Abd el-Qurna
Valley of the Kings
Valley of the Queens
Sumenu
Tuphium (Modern: "Tod", Ancient: "Djerty")
Lower Nubia
New Amada
Abu Simbel
Contra Pselchis (Modern: "Quban", Ancient: "Baki")
Debod
el-Lessiya
Mi'am (Modern: "'Aniba")
Qasr Ibrim / Primis (Modern: "Qasr Ibrim")
Pselchis (Modern: "el-Dakka", Ancient: "Pselqet")
Temple of Dakka
New Kalabsha
Beit el-Wali
Temple of Derr
Gerf Hussein
New 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
Dibeira
Dorginarti Island
Faras
Gebel el-Shams
Gebel Barkal
Kor
Kumma
Meinarti Island
Qustul
Semna
Semna South
Serra East
Shalfak
Uronarti Island
Oases and Mediterranean coast
Siwa Oasis
Aghurmi
el-Zeitun
Gebel el-Mawta
Qaret el-Musabberin
Umm el-'Ebeida
Bahariya 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
Aqaba
Arsinoe
Eilat (Elath)
Kuntillet Ajrud
Ostrakine
Pelusium (Sin)
Rud el-'Air
Serabit el-Khadim
Tell Kedwa
Wadi Maghareh
Eastern Desert
Wadi Hammamat
Notes and references
Bibliography
Atlas of Ancient Egypt, John Baines & Jaromir Malek, America University of Cairo Press, 2002
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