EOT Editorial Team

The Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square, opened in 1902, still holds over 170,000 objects, even after the Tutankhamun treasures moved to the Grand Egyptian Museum in 2025. A foreign adult ticket costs EGP 550. What you can see now, its history and how to plan your visit.

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The Colossi of Memnon are two seated quartzite statues of King Amenhotep III, about 18 metres high, that guarded his vanished mortuary temple on Luxor's West Bank around 1350 BCE. They stand by the road, free to visit. Their history, the singing statue of Roman times and how to fit them into a West Bank day.

The Unfinished Obelisk in Aswan is a granite obelisk still lying in its ancient quarry: about 42 metres long and 1,168 tonnes, abandoned when it cracked, probably under Hatshepsut. Here is what the site shows, seven things most guides skip, the ticket price, hours and how to fit it into an Aswan day.

The Saqqara necropolis in Egypt is the cemetery of ancient Memphis, about 30 to 40 km south of Cairo, home of the Step Pyramid of Djoser, the Serapeum and some of the best painted tombs of the Old Kingdom, such as the tomb of Mehu. What to see, ticket prices, hours and how to plan the visit.

Around 170 pharaohs ruled Egypt over some 3,000 years, from Narmer around 3100 BC to Cleopatra VII in 30 BC. Here are the facts that matter: the word, the crowns, the women who ruled, the tombs and the mummies, and where you can see them in Egypt today.

The Coptic Museum in Old Cairo holds the largest collection of Coptic Christian art in the world, about 16,000 objects, including the Nag Hammadi codices. A foreign adult ticket costs EGP 280 at the time of writing. Hours, highlights, history and how to combine it with the churches of Coptic Cairo.

The Salah El Din Citadel crowns Cairo on a spur of the Mokattam Hills. A foreign adult ticket costs EGP 550 at the time of writing and covers the Mosque of Muhammad Ali, the other mosques and the museums inside. Hours, history, what to see, how long to stay and our tips.

Dakhla Oasis is one of the oases of Egypt's Western Desert, in the New Valley Governorate, about 350 km west of the Nile. It is known for the medieval mud-brick town of Al-Qasr, the Roman temple of Deir el-Hagar, Old Kingdom remains at Balat and hot springs. Here is what to see and how to get there.

The Hanging Church, the Church of the Virgin Mary in Coptic Cairo, is built over the gatehouse of the Roman Babylon Fortress, so its nave hangs above a passage. It was the seat of the Coptic Pope from 1047. Entry is free. Here is its history, what to look for inside and how to fit it into an Old Cairo visit.

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Deir el-Medina, on Luxor's West Bank, is the village where the craftsmen who built the tombs in the Valley of the Kings lived for about 450 years. You can walk its streets, enter their painted family tombs and see a Ptolemaic temple of Hathor. History, tombs, tickets and visiting tips.