Search places, or jump to a section
The catalogue
4 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 · Rock-cut
Old Kingdom to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE; peak 2300–2100 BCE) · Ancient Egyptian
El-Hawawish is the Old–Middle Kingdom cliff necropolis of Akhmim (Panopolis, 9th nome) on eastern desert edge, 800+ rock-cut tombs 3000–1800 BCE on 1.5 km wadi terrace.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Early Dynastic to Ptolemaic (Umm el-Qaab 3200 BCE; Seti I temple 1290–1279 BCE) · Egyptian Pharaonic
Chief cult centre of Osiris and burial place of first kings (Umm el-Qaab): Early Dynastic royal tombs, Middle Kingdom cenotaphs, and New Kingdom Temple of Seti I (1290–1279 BCE) – most complete and…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works
Early Dynastic 2nd Dynasty ~2750 BCE · Early Egyptian Dynastic
2750 BCE 137 m mudbrick enclosure - Egypt's oldest monumental walls prototyping pyramid complex.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Predynastic to Late Antique (3300 BCE – 400 CE) · Egyptian / Thinite / New Kingdom / Late
Osiris mysteries canal — Shunet el-Zebib 2700 BCE enclosure (oldest standing 11 m walls) with sacred lake harbour 400x100 m for barque procession.
