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5 places to sift through. Narrow by kind, country, period or how firmly each one is established — contested and pseudoarchaeological claims are labelled here, never hidden.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Second Intermediate to New Kingdom · Hyksos / New Kingdom Egyptian
Tell Heboua Frontier Fort Ways of Horus at Sinai, Tell Heboua, Egypt is a Second Intermediate to New Kingdom ancient city of the Hyksos / New Kingdom Egyptian tradition, built c.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
New Kingdom to Ottoman (1500 BCE–1813 CE) · Egyptian, Napatan, Meroitic, Roman, Byzantine, Islamic
Sole major Lower Nubian site surviving inundation, perched on cliff now island in Lake Nasser, continuously occupied from New Kingdom fortress through Napatan citadel, Meroitic town, Roman fort…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Iron Age to Medieval · Meroitic / Nubian
Qasr Ibrim Fortress Nubia Island at Nubia, Qasr Ibrim, Egypt is a Iron Age to Medieval ancient city of the Meroitic / Nubian tradition, built c.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Iron Age IIB (single-period) · Kingdom of Israel/Judah (Israelite)
Desert Israelite fortress (c.800 BCE) with 'YHWH and his Asherah' inscriptions and Bes frescoes.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Fortress
Second Intermediate to Saite (c. 1800–525 BCE; Hyksos–Ramesside fortress) · Hyksos / New Kingdom Egyptian (Ramesside)
Wadi Tumilat gate fortress claimed as biblical Pithom/Succoth, with Hyksos glacis and Ramesside Tjeku fortress of Seti I (Pr-Atum). Excavated by Naville, Petrie and Polish mission...
