Deep in the far south of Egypt, close to the border with Sudan, four giant figures sit carved into a cliff of golden sandstone, each of them a portrait of

Among the many temples of ancient Egypt, few are as sacred, or as beautiful, as Abydos. For thousands of years this was the holiest cult centre of Osiris, the god

Rising beside the Nile in southern Egypt, the Temple of Hathor at Dendera is one of the best-preserved and most beautiful temple complexes in the whole country. Dedicated to Hathor,

Halfway between Luxor and Aswan, in the town of Edfu, stands the most complete and best-preserved temple in all of Egypt. Dedicated to the falcon god Horus, the Temple of

Standing dramatically on a bend of the Nile in southern Egypt, the Temple of Kom Ombo is unlike any other. It is a double temple, built with perfect symmetry to

Long before the pyramids rose beside the Nile, and thousands of years before a single stone was raised at Stonehenge, a small community gathered on the floor of what is

On an island in the Nile near Aswan stands one of the most romantic of all Egyptian temples: Philae, the sanctuary of the goddess Isis. Rising straight from the water,

Before the pyramids of Giza rose, the story of monumental stone architecture began a little to the south, at Saqqara, the sprawling desert cemetery of Egypt’s first capital, Memphis. Here

A clear, myth-free look at the Great Pyramid of Giza: what it is, who built it, how the ancient Egyptians actually pulled it off, and why the alien theories fall apart.

On a desert plateau at the edge of modern Cairo stand the most famous monuments ever built by human hands: the pyramids of Giza and the Great Sphinx. Raised more