Image 1The Qattara Depression in Egypt's north west (from Egypt)

Image 2The Suez Canal Bridge (from Egypt)

Image 3Cairo University (from Egypt)

Image 4The Amr ibn al-As mosque in Cairo, recognised as the oldest in Africa (from Egypt)

Image 5The Rosetta Stone (c. 196 BC) enabled linguists to begin deciphering ancient Egyptian scripts. (from Ancient Egypt)

Image 6A figure wearing the red crown of Lower Egypt, most probably Amenemhat II or Senwosret II. It functioned as a divine guardian for the imiut; the divine kilt suggests that the statuette was not merely a representation of the living ruler. (from Ancient Egypt)

Image 7The "weighing of the heart" scene from the Book of the Dead (from Egypt)

Image 8Al-Azhar Park is listed as one of the world's sixty great public spaces by the Project for Public Spaces. (from Egypt)

Image 9The High Court of Justice in Downtown Cairo (from Egypt)

Image 10The Weighing of the Heart from the Book of the Dead of Ani (from Egypt)

Image 11The central business district in Egypt's under construction new administrative capital (from Egypt)

Image 12Statues of two pharaohs of Egypt's Twenty-Fifth Dynasty and several other Kushite kings, Kerma Museum (from Ancient Egypt)

Image 13The Cairo Metro (line 2) (from Egypt)

Image 14Menna and Family Hunting in the Marshes, Tomb of Menna, c. 1400 BC (from Ancient Egypt)

Image 15The pyramids of Giza are among the most recognizable symbols of ancient Egyptian civilization. (from Ancient Egypt)

Image 16The battle of Tel el-Kebir in 1882 during the Anglo-Egyptian War (from Egypt)

Image 17A typical Naqada II jar decorated with gazelles (Predynastic Period) (from Ancient Egypt)

Image 18Soad Hosny, film star (from Egypt)

Image 19Ancient Egyptians playing music (from Egypt)

Image 20The Temple of Dendur, completed by 10 BC, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City) (from Ancient Egypt)

Image 21Painted limestone relief of a noble member of Ancient Egyptian society during the New Kingdom (from Ancient Egypt)

Image 22Protesters from the Third Square movement, which supported neither the former Morsi government nor the Armed Forces, 31 July 2013 (from Egypt)

Image 23Early tomb painting from Nekhen, c. 3500 BC, Naqada, possibly Gerzeh culture (from Ancient Egypt)

Image 24Celebrating the signing of the 1978 Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin, Jimmy Carter, Anwar Sadat (from Egypt)

Image 25An offshore platform in the Darfeel Gas Field (from Egypt)

Image 26Change in per capita GDP of Egypt, 1820–2018. Figures are inflation-adjusted to 2011 International dollars. (from Egypt)

Image 27Egyptian tomb models as funerary goods (from Ancient Egypt)

Image 28A tomb relief depicts workers plowing the fields, harvesting the crops, and threshing the grain under the direction of an overseer, painting in the tomb of Nakht. (from Ancient Egypt)

Image 29The fully electric MCV C127 EV, made in Egypt for the German market, showcased at Busworld Europe 2023. (from Egypt)

Image 30Madrasa-Mosque of Sultan Hassan (from Egypt)

Image 31Seagoing ship of an expedition to Punt, from a relief of Hatshepsut's Mortuary temple, Deir el-Bahari (from Ancient Egypt)

Image 32Egyptian honour guard soldiers (from Egypt)

Image 33Salah Zulfikar, film star (from Egypt)

Image 34The Edwin Smith surgical papyrus describes anatomy and medical treatments, written in hieratic, c. 1550 BC. (from Ancient Egypt)

Image 35The Ptolemaic Queen Cleopatra VII and her son by Julius Caesar, Caesarion, at the Temple of Dendera (from Egypt)

Image 36Rectangular fishpond with ducks and lotus planted round with date palms and fruit trees, Tomb of Nebamun, Thebes, 18th Dynasty (from Ancient Egypt)

Image 37Tanoura dancers performing in Wekalet El Ghoury, Cairo (from Egypt)

Image 38Temple of Derr ruins in 1960 (from Egypt)

Image 39Measuring and recording the harvest, from the tomb of Menna at Thebes (Eighteenth Dynasty) (from Ancient Egypt)

Image 40The Seated Scribe from Saqqara, 5th dynasty (from Ancient Egypt)

Image 41Illustration of various types of capitals, by Karl Richard Lepsius (from Ancient Egypt)

Image 42Egypt under Muhammad Ali dynasty (from Egypt)

Image 43Egyptian tanks advancing in the Sinai desert during the Yom Kippur War, 1973 (from Egypt)

Image 44The Ibn Tulun Mosque in Cairo, of Ahmad Ibn Tulun (from Egypt)

Image 45Aziz Pasha Abaza, poet from the aristocratic literary Egyptian family the House of Abaza of Circassian Abazin origin (from Culture of Egypt)

Image 46The Fayum mummy portraits epitomize the meeting of Egyptian and Roman cultures. (from Ancient Egypt)

Image 47Female nationalists demonstrating in Cairo, 1919 (from Egypt)

Image 48Sennedjem plows his fields in Aaru with a pair of oxen, Deir el-Medina. (from Ancient Egypt)

Image 49Arabic calligraphy has seen its golden age in Cairo. This adornment and beads being sold in Muizz Street (from Culture of Egypt)

Image 50The Giza Necropolis is the oldest of the ancient Wonders and the only one still in existence. (from Egypt)

Image 51The Al-Hakim Mosque in Cairo, of Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, the sixth caliph, as renovated by Dawoodi Bohra (from Egypt)

Image 52Hunting game birds and plowing a field, tomb of Nefermaat and his wife Itet (c. 2700 BC) (from Ancient Egypt)

Image 53Facsimile of the Astronomical chart in Senemut's tomb, 18th dynasty (from Ancient Egypt)

Image 54Pyramidion of Amenemhat III, capstone of the Black Pyramid (from Ancient Egypt)

Image 55A crowd at Cairo Stadium watching the Egypt national football team (from Egypt)

Image 56Tourists riding a camel in front of Pyramid of Khafre. The Giza Necropolis is one of Egypt's main tourist attractions. (from Egypt)

Image 57Egypt's topography (from Egypt)

Image 58The well preserved Temple of Isis from Philae is an example of Egyptian architecture and architectural sculpture. (from Ancient Egypt)

Image 59The Eastern Imperial Eagle is the national animal of Egypt. (from Egypt)

Image 60Smoke rises from oil tanks beside the Suez Canal hit during the initial Anglo-French assault on Egypt, 5 November 1956. (from Egypt)

Image 61The pharaoh was usually depicted wearing symbols of royalty and power. (from Ancient Egypt)

Image 62Khafre enthroned (from Ancient Egypt)

Image 63Frontispiece of Description de l'Égypte, published in 38 volumes between 1809 and 1829 (from Ancient Egypt)

Image 64Lower-class occupations (from Ancient Egypt)

Image 65St. Mark Coptic Cathedral in Alexandria (from Egypt)

Image 66The preserved Temple of Horus at Edfu is a model of Egyptian architecture. (from Ancient Egypt)

Image 67Portrait of Ptolemy VI Philometor wearing the double crown of Egypt (from Ancient Egypt)

Image 68Tutankhamun's burial mask is one of the major attractions of the Egyptian Museum of Cairo. (from Egypt)

Image 69Naguib Mahfouz, the first Arabic-language writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (from Egypt)

Image 70Kushari, one of Egypt's national dishes (from Egypt)

Image 71British infantry near El Alamein, 17 July 1942 (from Egypt)

Image 72Green irrigated land along the Nile amidst the desert and in the Nile Delta (from Egypt)

Image 73Graphic of the increase in temperature in Egypt overtime (from Egypt)

Image 74Pharaohs' tombs were provided with vast quantities of wealth, such as the golden mask from the mummy of Tutankhamun. (from Ancient Egypt)

Image 75Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is the current President of Egypt. (from Egypt)

Image 76Anubis, the god associated with mummification and burial rituals, attending to a mummy (from Ancient Egypt)

Image 77The gods Osiris, Anubis, and Horus in the tomb of Horemheb (KV57) in the Valley of the Kings (from Ancient Egypt)

Image 78The Egyptian Museum of Cairo (from Egypt)

Image 79Hosni Mubarak — president of Egypt from 1981 to 2011 (from Egypt)

Image 80The Book of the Dead was a guide to the deceased's journey in the afterlife. (from Ancient Egypt)

Image 81Fuad I of Egypt with Edward, Prince of Wales, 1932 (from Egypt)

Image 82Wooden figures of soldiers, from the tomb of nomarch Mesehti (11th dynasty) (from Ancient Egypt)

Image 83Egypt's population density (people per km²) (from Egypt)

Image 84Ruins of Deir el-Medina (from Ancient Egypt)

Image 85Hatshepsut's trading expedition to the Land of Punt (from Ancient Egypt)

Image 86Glassmaking was a highly developed art. (from Ancient Egypt)

Image 87 (from Egypt)

Image 88Soad Hosny, Egyptian film star. Among the most famous Egyptian and Arabic actresses. (from Culture of Egypt)

Image 89Model of a household porch and garden, c. 1981–1975 BC (from Ancient Egypt)

Image 90Four colossal statues of Ramesses II flank the entrance of his temple Abu Simbel. (from Ancient Egypt)

Image 91Hieroglyphs on stela in Louvre, c. 1321 BC (from Ancient Egypt)

Image 92Egyptians celebrated feasts and festivals, accompanied by music and dance. (from Ancient Egypt)

Image 93Coffin of Khnumnakht in 12th dynasty style, with palace facade, columns of inscriptions, and two Wedjat eyes (from Ancient Egypt)

Image 94The halls of Karnak Temple are built with rows of large columns. (from Ancient Egypt)

Image 95Cairo grew into a metropolitan area with a population of over 20 million. (from Egypt)

Image 96Muhammad Ali was the founder of the Muhammad Ali dynasty and the first Khedive of Egypt and Sudan. (from Egypt)

Image 97Egyptian literacy rate among the population aged 15 years and older by UNESCO Institute of Statistics (from Egypt)

Image 98Children's Cancer Hospital Egypt (from Egypt)

Image 99The Narmer Palette depicts the unification of the Two Lands. (from Ancient Egypt)

Image 100Napoleon defeated the Mamluk troops in the Battle of the Pyramids, 21 July 1798, painted by Lejeune. (from Egypt)

Image 101Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser in Mansoura, 1960 (from Egypt)

Image 102Tutankhamun charging enemies on his chariot, 18th dynasty (from Ancient Egypt)