Gebel al-Tayr (Monastery of the Virgin)
A cliff-top monastery above the Nile near Samalut, where by tradition the Holy Family passed — with a church cut into the rock.
Minya
Speos Artemidos
Hatshepsut's rock-cut temple of the lion goddess Pakhet near Beni Hasan, with her famous denunciation of the Hyksos.
Tell el-Amarna (Akhetaten)
Akhenaten's short-lived capital of the sun disc — boundary stelae, a royal tomb and the rock tombs of his courtiers.
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