Heritage

Museums, mosques, Coptic churches, and the living history of Egypt.

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70 Days at the Grand Egyptian Museum

A 70-day journey through 100,000 artifacts at the world's largest single-civilization museum.

Places in Heritage

45 places

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Al Muizz Street

A kilometre of Fatimid-to-Ottoman monuments through Islamic Cairo

Old Cairo

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Al-Azhar Mosque

Founded in 970 AD, the Fatimid mosque whose school became Al-Azhar University

Old Cairo

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Bibliotheca Alexandrina

A tilted granite disc in Alexandria reviving its ancient library

Alexandria

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Grand Egyptian Museum

The largest archaeological museum in the world dedicated to one civilization

Giza

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The Egyptian Museum

Cairo's original antiquities museum, on Tahrir Square since 1902

Downtown Cairo

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Abu al-Abbas al-Mursi Mosque

A pilgrimage mosque built on the tomb of a 13th-century Andalusian mystic

Alexandria

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Agricultural Museum

A 1938 palace-turned-museum tracing Egypt's farming history since the pharaohs

Dokki

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Ahmed Shawqi Museum

The poet Ahmed Shawqi's Nile-side villa, kept as he left it

Dokki

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Al Azbakeya Garden

A Mamluk-era lake turned 1872 Khedivial park at Cairo's cultural heart

Downtown Cairo

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Al Azhar Park

A 74-acre park built over a centuries-old rubble mound in medieval Cairo

Downtown Cairo

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Alexandria National Museum

Alexandria's story told through 1,800 objects in a former consulate mansion

Alexandria

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Alexandria Stadium

Egypt and Africa's oldest stadium, opened in 1929 by King Fouad I

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Alexandria Zoo

Egypt's second-largest zoo, open in Smouha since the 1950s

Alexandria

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Aquarium Grotto Garden

An 1867 khedival garden of caves and grottoes, its fish tanks long empty

Downtown Cairo

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Armenian Catholic Cathedral of Annunciation

Art deco cathedral, seat of Egypt's Armenian Catholic diocese

Downtown Cairo

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Bayt Al-Suhaymi

A five-story Ottoman merchant house on Cairo's Darb al-Asfar

Downtown Cairo

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Bayt al-Sinnari

The 1794 mansion that sheltered Napoleon's scientists in Cairo

Downtown Cairo

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Beshtak Palace

A Mamluk emir's 14th-century palace on Cairo's medieval Muizz Street

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Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa

A three-level Roman-era tomb complex discovered by a falling donkey

Alexandria

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Cavafy Museum

The Alexandria apartment where the poet Cavafy lived and wrote

Alexandria

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Child Museum

A hands-on museum for children in a 14-feddan Heliopolis landscape

Heliopolis

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Citadel of Qaitbay

A 15th-century Mamluk fort built from the fallen Lighthouse of Alexandria's stones

Alexandria

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Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies in Cairo

Research institute holding the world's largest private Islamic studies library

Heliopolis

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Egyptian Geological Museum

A century-old rock, fossil and meteorite collection from the Geological Survey

Giza

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El Tahrir Square

The 19th-century square that became the epicenter of Egypt's 2011 revolution

Downtown Cairo

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Gayer-Anderson Museum

Two 16th-17th century Cairo houses filled with a British collector's furnishings

Downtown Cairo

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Graeco-Roman Museum

Egypt's Greek and Roman antiquities collection, reopened after 18 years

Alexandria

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Mahmoud Khaleel

Egypt's leading collection of French Impressionist painting, in a 1915 Giza villa

Downtown Cairo

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Mahmoud Mukhtar Museum

Sculptures by the father of modern Egyptian art, in a museum built for him on Gezira

Downtown Cairo

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Mahmoud Saeed Museum

A judge's villa turned gallery for one of Egypt's great modern painters

Alexandria

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Mohamed Ali Palace

A prince's eclectic Nile-island palace mixing Ottoman, Persian, and Art Nouveau styles

Downtown Cairo

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Museum of Fine Arts

A 1954 Moharam Bek museum built around a 1904 donated art collection

Alexandria

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Museum of Islamic Art

One of the world's largest Islamic art collections, rebuilt after a 2014 bombing

Downtown Cairo

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Museum of Islamic Ceramics

Islamic ceramics from three continents, inside a 1921 Zamalek palace

Downtown Cairo

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Place Khartoum

An 1898 Alexandria square marking the recapture of Khartoum

Alexandria

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Planetarium Science Center

A dome-screen planetarium and hands-on science park at Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Alexandria

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Qasr El-Nile Bridge (The Nile Castle Bridge)

A 1933 Nile bridge guarded by four bronze lions meant for Giza Zoo

Zamalek

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Roman Theatre Alexandria

Egypt's only surviving Roman theatre, unearthed at Kom El Dikka

Alexandria

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Royal Jewellery Museum

Muhammad Ali dynasty jewels inside a former royal princess's palace

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Saad Zaghloul Mausoleum Garden

Pharaonic-style tomb of Egypt's 1919 revolution leader

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Saad Zaghloul Park

A Raml Station square with Mahmoud Mokhtar's 1930 Saad Zaghloul statue

Alexandria

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Saint George's Church

A Coptic Orthodox convent church inside the Babylon Fortress compound

Old Cairo

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Sound & Light Show

Nightly narrated light show projected onto the Pyramids and Sphinx

West Cairo

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The Carriage Museum

Royal carriages of Egypt's ruling dynasty, including Napoleon III's gift to Khedive Ismail

Downtown Cairo

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Wax museum

Egypt's own wax-figure museum, reopened in Ain Helwan after years shut

Helwan

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