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On the South side of the Great Pyramid sits the pod-shaped, Solar Boat Museum. This holds a full size ancient Egyptian boat discovered in pieces in 1954.

Dendera is home of the Temple of the Goddess Hathor. The complex at Dendera marks the location of a very old holy place. An indication of the antiquity of the temple site is given by the astronomical alignment of the main temple to Gamma Draconis.

Wadi Al-Hitan, Whale Valley, in the Western Desert of Egypt, contains invaluable fossil remains of the earliest, and now extinct, suborder of whales, Archaeoceti. These fossils represent one of the major stories of evolution

Alexandria National Museum offers a glimpse of the city’s colorful past. The museum is set in an elegant white mansion on the corner of Tahrir Street. The building itself is 83 years old.

Lake Nasser is a vast reservoir in southern Egypt and northern Sudan. It was created as a result of the construction of the Aswan High Dam across the waters of the Nile between 1958 and 1970 and its purpose was to protect Nile’s coasts from flooding.

El-Rifai Mosque is Cairo is one of the last monumental mosques to be built in Cairo that was built in an edifice worthy of the legacy left by Salah El Din and Sultan Hassan.

The centerpiece of the Saqqara necropolis is the Step Pyramid of Djoser, the prototype for the Pyramids of Giza and all other Pyramids that followed

is an archaeological site comprising two massive rock temples in southern Egypt on the western bank of Lake Nasser about 290 km southwest of Aswan. It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site known as the "Nubian Monuments".

The poet Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933) was born to Greek parents but spent most of his life in Alexandria. This small museum is housed in the flat where he spent the last 25 years of his life.

Pyramids of Giza sound and light show, see schedule and watch video of the spectacular sound and light show at the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt.