🇪🇬 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 · 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 · Ancient city
Coptos (Qift / Koptos) – Desert Gate of Gold & Incense
Predynastic to Roman · Egyptian / Roman
Caravan terminus of Wadi Hammamat road to Red Sea moving gold, bekhen-stone and incense. Temple of Min–Isis (Elkab-scale).
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient village
Naqada (Nubt / Ombos)
Predynastic (Naqada I Amratian to III Protodynastic) · Naqada (Upper Egyptian protodynastic)
Type-site of Predynastic Upper Egypt — Naqada I–III cultures (c.4000–3000 BCE) that unified Egypt: eponymous cemeteries N7000+ graves at Naqada, Ballas, Nubt town (gold-worker's town of Seth).