Partially excavated temple complexes in Egypt

Mysteria

Partially excavated temple complexes in Egypt · Mysteria

🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder

Abu Mena

Late Roman to Early Byzantine 4th–7th c. CE, peak 5th–6th c. · Coptic Christian / Byzantine Egyptian

Desert pilgrimage city of Saint Menas, 4th–7th c., now endangered by water table rise.

🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex

Abu Simbel Small Temple Hathor Facade South

Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional · Classical

Abu Simbel Small Temple Hathor Facade South in Aswan, Abu Simbel, Egypt is a Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional temple complex attributed to Classical.

🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex

Medinet Habu Mortuary Temple Pylon II

Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional · Classical

Medinet Habu Mortuary Temple Pylon II in Luxor, Medinet Habu, Egypt is a Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional temple complex attributed to Classical.

🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex

Esna Temple of Khnum Hypostyle North Wall

Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional · Classical

Esna Temple of Khnum Hypostyle North Wall in Luxor, Esna, Egypt is a Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional temple complex attributed to Classical.

🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex

El-Tod (Djerty / Tuphium)

Old Kingdom to Ptolemaic (2480 BCE–30 BCE; peak Middle Kingdom 12th Dyn) · Ancient Egyptian

Montu war-falcon temple at El-Tod with Sesostris granite pillars and Tod Treasure hoard.

🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid

Qasr el-Sagha Temple — Fayum North

Middle Kingdom, late Twelfth Dynasty (c.1900 BCE, Fayum expansion period) · Ancient Egyptian (Middle Kingdom)

Qasr el-Sagha is the isolated, unfinished limestone temple on the barren plateau north of the Fayum depression, first described by Georg Schweinfurth 1884 and fully planned by German excavators.

🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex

Esna Temple of Khnum

Late Ptolemaic to Roman (1st–2nd c CE hall; full temple New Kingdom to Roman) · Egyptian (Ptolemaic-Roman Egyptian)

9 m below street level, surviving 24-column hypostyle hall 1st–2nd c CE of Khnum with astronomical ceiling and unique capitals.

🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex

Kom Ombo Temple

Ptolemaic to Roman (2nd c BCE–1st c CE) · Ptolemaic Egyptian / Roman

Symmetrical double temple on Nile bluff dedicated jointly to Haroeris (falcon) and Sobek (crocodile) with duplicate courts and surgical relief.

🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid

Hawara Pyramid Complex (Amenemhat III)

Middle Kingdom (12th Dyn) · Ancient Egyptian

Amenemhat III's mudbrick Hawara pyramid and Herodotan labyrinth mortuary temple.

🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex

Dendera Temple Complex

Ptolemaic to Roman (54 BCE–117 CE major phase; origins Old Kingdom c.2250 BCE) · Egyptian (Late/Ptolemaic, Roman)

One of Egypt's best-preserved Ptolemaic-Roman temple complexes, the 40,000 m² walled Dendera enclosure centres on the Temple of Hathor (54 BCE) with 24 Hathor-headed columns, famed zodiac ceiling…