Mediterranean Sea

Jerusalem

Sea
Gaza

Dead
Damietta
Rosetta
Rafah
Alexandria Buto

Sais Tanis Pelusium

Naukratis Busiris
Avaris

NW
N

NE
Wadi Natrun Bubastis
W E
Nile Delta
SW

S
SE
Merimda Great Bitter
Lake
Heliopolis
Cairo
Giza
0 (km) 100

Sinai
0 (mi) 60

Saqqara
Memphis
Helwan
Dahshur

Faiyum
ake
Moeri
s Lower Timna

Egypt
L
Meydum

Lahun

Herakleopolis Serabit al-Khadim

qaba
river

Gu
Nile

of A
lf o
Bahariya Oasis fS

Gulf
ue
z

Beni Hasan
Hermopolis
Amarna

Asyut
Badari
Eastern Desert
Qau

Western Desert Akhmim

Red Sea
Thinis
Abydos river
Nile Dendera
Quseir
Kharga Oasis Naqada Koptos t
Ham mama
Wadi

Thebes
Dakhla Oasis Tod
(Luxor and Karnak)

Upper
Egypt
Hierakonpolis

Edfu

Kom Ombo

Aswan
First Cataract
Bernike

Dunqul Oasis

Nabta Playa

Wa
Abu Simbel di Alla
qi

Buhen

Second Cataract Kush

Wa
d iG
ab
ga
ba

Nubian Desert

Third Cataract

Kerma
er
riv
le
Ni

Kawa

Fourth Cataract

Napata Gebel Barkal

Fifth Cataract

Meroe