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
Hermopolis (Ashmunein)
The city of Thoth — colossal quartzite baboons of Amenhotep III and the granite columns of a great Byzantine basilica.
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