List of ancient Egyptian sites

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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.

The nomes of Ancient Egypt, in lower Egypt
The nomes of Ancient Egypt, in upper 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)
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")
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's Buried 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 to Asyut 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
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 or Panopolis (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")
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
'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

Sinai
Maghara
Rud el-'Air
Serabit el-Khadim
Tell Kedwa

Eastern Desert
Wadi Hammamat