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18 stories set in Egypt, including Giza, Egypt, Pharos island, Egypt, Saqqara, Egypt, Dahshur, Egypt, Thebes (Luxor), Luxor, Egypt, Deir el-Bahri, Nubia, Egypt.

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Great Pyramid of Giza: a world wonder of c. 2560 BCE (World Wonder · Giza, Egypt) — c. 2560 BCE, Giza, Egypt. Khufu’s pyramid was the tallest human-made structure on Earth for nearly 3,800 years, with about 2.3 million limes
Lighthouse of Alexandria: a world wonder of c. 280 BCE (World Wonder · Pharos island, Egypt) — c. 280 BCE, Pharos island, Egypt. Sostratus of Cnidus raised a three-tier tower whose fire and mirror made the Ptolemaic harbour a night mar
Great Sphinx of Giza: a world wonder of c. 2500 BCE (World Wonder · Giza, Egypt) — c. 2500 BCE, Giza, Egypt. A limestone knoll was carved into a recumbent lion with a royal head, likely Khafre, facing the rising sun.
Step Pyramid of Djoser: a world wonder of c. 2667 BCE (World Wonder · Saqqara, Egypt) — c. 2667 BCE, Saqqara, Egypt. Imhotep stacked six mastabas into the first colossal stone pyramid, inventing a sky-stair for a Third Dynasty k
Bent Pyramid of Sneferu: a world wonder of c. 2600 BCE (World Wonder · Dahshur, Egypt) — c. 2600 BCE, Dahshur, Egypt. The angle changes halfway up — 54 degrees, then about 43 — a live experiment in how steep a stone mountain can
Red Pyramid of Dahshur: a world wonder of c. 2575 BCE (World Wonder · Dahshur, Egypt) — c. 2575 BCE, Dahshur, Egypt. Sneferu’s last pyramid is the first successful smooth-sided royal tomb, named for the rusty local limestone of
Karnak Temple of Amun-Ra: a world wonder of c. 2000 BCE (World Wonder · Thebes (Luxor)) — c. 2000 BCE, Thebes (Luxor). For two millennia, pharaohs added pylons, hypostyle halls, and obelisks until Karnak became a city of gods rath
Luxor Temple: a world wonder of c. 1400 BCE (World Wonder · Luxor, Egypt) — c. 1400 BCE, Luxor, Egypt. Amenhotep III and Ramesses II framed the Opet festival road that joined Luxor to Karnak, a processional spine of
Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut: a world wonder of c. 1479 BCE (World Wonder · Deir el-Bahri) — c. 1479 BCE, Deir el-Bahri. Hatshepsut’s terraces step into the Theban cliffs as if the mountain itself were a ramped offering to Amun.
Great Temple of Abu Simbel: a world wonder of c. 1264 BCE (World Wonder · Nubia, Egypt) — c. 1264 BCE, Nubia, Egypt. Ramesses II cut four 20-metre seated selves into a sandstone cliff to stare downriver at Nubia and at anyone who
Colossi of Memnon: a world wonder of c. 1350 BCE (World Wonder · Thebes, Egypt) — c. 1350 BCE, Thebes, Egypt. Two quartzite giants of Amenhotep III sat before a mortuary temple that flood and stone-robbing later erased.
Valley of the Kings: a world wonder of c. 1539 BCE (World Wonder · Western Thebes) — c. 1539 BCE, Western Thebes. From Thutmose I onward, New Kingdom kings hid in the wadi instead of advertising themselves with pyramids.
Temple of Horus at Edfu: a world wonder of c. 237 BCE (World Wonder · Edfu, Egypt) — c. 237 BCE, Edfu, Egypt. The Ptolemies built the best-preserved pharaonic temple in Egypt, finishing a Horus house that reads like a complet
Isis Temple of Philae: a world wonder of c. 380 BCE (World Wonder · Aswan, Egypt) — c. 380 BCE, Aswan, Egypt. Philae was among the last working Egyptian temples; Isis worship here outlasted the pharaohs into Roman time.
Unfinished Obelisk of Aswan: a world wonder of c. 1473 BCE (World Wonder · Aswan granite quarries) — c. 1473 BCE, Aswan granite quarries. Hatshepsut’s crews began a 42-metre obelisk — the largest attempted — then abandoned it when the granit
Serapeum of Saqqara: a world wonder of c. 1400 BCE (World Wonder · Saqqara, Egypt) — c. 1400 BCE, Saqqara, Egypt. Galleries held the mummified Apis bulls in granite sarcophagi weighing tens of tonnes each.
Pyramid of Meidum: a world wonder of c. 2610 BCE (World Wonder · Meidum, Egypt) — c. 2610 BCE, Meidum, Egypt. A step pyramid converted into a true pyramid shed its outer mantle, leaving a tower in a rubble skirt.
Abu Simbel relocation: a world wonder of c. 1968 CE (World Wonder · Nubia, Egypt) — c. 1968 CE, Nubia, Egypt. UNESCO cut Ramesses II’s temples into 1,000+ blocks and raised them above Lake Nasser — archaeology as heavy engin

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