💀 Cursed Places in Egypt

Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa

💀💀💀💀 4.3/5 Alexandria

The catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa (Arabic: مقابر كوم الشقافة, romanized: Maqābir Kūm al-Shuqāfah, lit. 'Mound of Shards') ...

El Alamein Italian Military Memorial

💀💀💀💀 4.0/5 Matruh Governorate

The Italian war memorial at El Alamein is an Italian war cemetery, museum, and memorial to the Italian soldiers who foug...

The Great Sphinx

💀💀💀💀 3.9/5 Giza

The Great Sphinx of Giza is a limestone statue of a reclining sphinx, a mythical creature with the head of a human and t...

Edwin Smith Papyrus: The 3,600-Year-Old Textbook of Surgery

💀💀💀💀 3.9/5 None

In 1862, an American Egyptologist named Edwin Smith bought an ancient scroll of papyrus from an Egyptian dealer. Smith d...

The Diary of Merer: A 4,500-Year-Old Papyrus That Details The Construction of The Great Pyramid

💀💀💀💀 3.8/5 None

The Great Pyramids of Giza has been one of the world’s greatest enigmas—how did an ancient society build suc...

The Monastery of Abba Shenouda

💀💀💀💀 3.8/5 Sohag

The monastery was founded by Saint Pigol, the maternal uncle of Saint Shenouda (Schenute) the Archimandrite in 442 AD. H...

Nilometer: Ancient Structures Used to Measure the Level of River Nile

💀💀💀💀 3.7/5 None

Every year the river Nile begins to rise in the summer, the water overflows its banks and deposits slit on the surroundi...

The Fishing Village of Al Max, Alexandria

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Al Max (also spelled El Max) is one of the neighbourhoods of the city of Alexandria in Egypt, located in the Department ...

A Short History of Showering

💀💀💀💀 3.6/5 None

Personal hygiene hasn’t always been an integral part of grooming, yet the need to clean oneself easily and quickly...

The Relocation of Abu Simbel Temples

💀💀💀💀 3.5/5 None

Hundreds of towns and villages have perished due to massive earth-moving projects such as the construction of dams. But ...

Statue of Ramesses II

💀💀💀💀 3.5/5 Giza

Ancient Egyptian limestone statue found in 1820 which is presented nowadays in the museum of Mit Rahina, Egypt. Statue o...

The Ancient Egg Hatcheries of Egypt

💀💀💀 3.4/5 None

Chickens that are raised in farms are almost never hatched by their mothers. Instead, they are hatched using artificial ...

The Hot Sand Baths of Siwa

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Between July to September, during the hottest months of the year when temperature hovers around 37 degrees in the shade,...

Colossi of Memnon: The ‘Singing’ Statues

💀💀💀 3.4/5 None

The Colossi of Memnon, also known as Colossus of Memnon, are two massive stone statues on the west bank of the River Nil...

New Barrid Village

💀💀💀 3.4/5 Kharga

New Barrid Village is a notable architectural project in Kharga, Egypt. This hidden gem of architecture showcases unique...

The Bent Pyramid of Dahshur

💀💀💀 3.3/5 None

The Bent Pyramid of Dahshur is located approximately 40 kilometers south of Cairo. It is one of the unusual pyramids of ...

The Unfinished Obelisk of Aswan

💀💀💀 3.3/5 None

The granite quarries located along the Nile, in the city of Aswan, supplied some of the finest quality stones for the co...

Cultural Park for Children

💀💀💀 3.2/5 Cairo

In 1983, the Egyptian Ministry of Culture sponsored a national design competition to develop the site of El-Hod El-Marso...

The Cave of Swimmers

💀💀💀 3.2/5 None

Thousands of years ago, the Sahara was surprisingly green with rich vegetation, trees and lakes that covered almost all ...

Treaty of Kadesh: The World’s First Peace Treaty

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On the walls of the Temple of Karnak near Luxor, Egypt, and on the temple of Pharaoh Ramesses II in Thebes, are engravin...