Ahmed Samir

The Royal Jewelry Museum in Alexandria displays the jewels and precious objects of the Muhammad Ali dynasty in the 1919 palace of Princess Fatma al-Zahra in Zizinia. Tickets cost EGP 220 for foreign adults and it is open daily 9:00 to 17:00. Here is what to see and how to plan the visit.

The Alexandria Aquarium Museum is an aquatic museum containing many species from the Mediterranean and Red Sea: fish, sharks, turtles, fossils, marine species.

Pyramid of Khentkaus I the Tomb of Queen Khentkawes discover the secrets of Ancient Egypt on your next tour with Egypt Online Tour Ancient Egypt Tours - Tomb of Khentkaus I

Fort Babylon is the Roman fortress at the heart of Coptic Cairo, rebuilt around 300 AD under Emperor Diocletian beside the old Nile-Red Sea canal. It fell to Amr ibn al-As after a seven-month siege in 640. Today its towers and gate carry the Hanging Church and St George's. Its history and how to see it.

Ras El-Tin Palace is the oldest of the royal palaces of modern Egypt, built for Muhammad Ali Pasha from 1834 on the western harbour of Alexandria and rebuilt by King Fuad in the 1920s. King Farouk signed his abdication here in July 1952. Today it is a presidential palace closed to visitors.

Nabq Protected Area is a 600 km2 nature reserve on the Gulf of Aqaba between Sharm El Sheikh and Dahab, declared in 1992. It protects the northernmost mangrove forest of the Red Sea, sand dunes, Bedouin fishing villages and quiet reefs. Here is what to see and how to visit.

The tomb of Wahtye is a 4,400-year-old painted chapel at Saqqara, built for a royal purification priest of King Neferirkare and found untouched in 2018. Here is what is inside, why it matters, whether you can visit, and how to see Saqqara with a guide.

Malkata, the "House of Rejoicing", was the vast mud-brick palace city that Amenhotep III built on the West Bank of Luxor for his jubilee festivals. Here is its history, what was found there, and what a visitor can see today near Medinet Habu.

The Precinct of Mut, 325 metres south of the great temple of Amun at Karnak, is the sanctuary of Mut, mother goddess of Thebes, with a crescent-shaped sacred lake and rows of lion-headed Sekhmet statues. It has its own ticket (EGP 200 for foreigners). History, what to see and how to visit.

The Temple of Dakka is a Graeco-Roman temple of Thoth in Lower Nubia, begun in the 3rd century BC by the Meroitic king Arqamani and Ptolemy IV and finished under Augustus and Tiberius. Saved from Lake Nasser in the 1960s, it now stands at New Wadi al-Sebua, reached mostly by Lake Nasser cruise.

The Temple of Amada is the oldest surviving temple in Egyptian Nubia, built in the 18th Dynasty by Thutmose III and Amenhotep II for Amun-Ra and Ra-Horakhty. In 1964-65 French engineers moved it in one piece on rails to higher ground above Lake Nasser. Here is its story, what to see and how to visit.

Qasr Qaroun is a Ptolemaic temple to the crocodile god Sobek at ancient Dionysias, on the western side of Lake Qarun in the Fayoum, about 44 km from Fayoum city. Every 21 December the rising sun lights its inner sanctuary. Here is its history, what you see and how to fit it into a Fayoum day.