Places

Saqqara is the vast necropolis of ancient Memphis, home to the Step Pyramid of Djoser and tombs spanning from the Early...

The Colossi of Memnon are two seated quartzite statues of Amenhotep III on the west bank of the Nile at Thebes, once the...

The Library of Alexandria was the great research institution of the Ptolemaic capital, founded under Ptolemy I or II in...

The Great Sphinx of Giza is a limestone statue of a reclining lion with a human head on the Giza Plateau, conventionally...

A port city in the Nile Delta of Egypt (modern Rashid), where the Rosetta Stone was discovered in 1799.

Capital city on the Seine in northern France.

Ancient city sacred to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

The Rubicon River is a small stream in northern Italy that flows from the Apennine Mountains into the Adriatic Sea. Hist...

Persepolis was the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire (ca. 550-330 BCE), located in modern-day Fars Province, I...

The Karnak Temple Complex is one of the largest religious sites ever built, located in Luxor (ancient Thebes), Egypt. Co...

Amarna (ancient Akhetaten) is an extensive archaeological site in Middle Egypt, located on the east bank of the Nile Riv...

The Valley of the Queens (Ta Set Neferu, meaning 'the Place of Beauty') is a necropolis located on the west bank of the...