Article Series Egyptian Sites

Places

Prefectures / cities Monuments / Temples

Region

Lower Egypt / Middle Egypt Upper Egypt / Nubia

Location

Upper Egypt is the area south of present Egypt. From time immemorial, the Nile was the main concern of the axis of the Egyptians, so it refers to him as the top qualifier.

The Nile has its source in central Africa (in the region of the Great Lakes ) and emptying into the Mediterranean Sea in the delta to the north, it makes sense (according to the law of the river flow) that the south is more higher than the north. Therefore Upper Egypt is the southern part of Egypt , the Theban necropolis to the Aswan High Dam and the beginning of Nubia.

Cities of Upper Egypt (from North to South)

• Cynopolis
• Abydos
• Coptos
• Thebes
  • Karnak
  • Luxor
• Esna
• Edfu
• Kom Ombo
• Aswan
  • Elephantine
  • Philae

Archaeological sites

• Theban necropolis :
  • Valley of the Kings : burial of the pharaohs of ^eighteenth , ^nineteenth and ^twentieth dynasties ;
  • Valley of the queens : queens cemetery from the ^nineteenth dynasty ;
  • Valley of the nobles : necropolis of courtiers of the Middle Kingdom to the Late Period ;
  • Deir el-Bahari : mortuary temples of Mentuhotep II ( ^XIth Dynasty ) of Hatshepsut and Tuthmosis III ( ^Eighteenth Dynasty ), Senenmut tomb ( ^XVIII Dynasty );
  • Deir el-Medina : Temple of Hathor , cave-chapel of Ptah , the artisan village and cemetery;
  • Sheikh Abd el-Qurna : mortuary temples of Seti ^I ( ^nineteenth dynasty ), and Sennefer, Mayor of Thebes;
  • Ramesseum : funerary temple of Ramses II ( Dynasty XIX ^th );
  • Medinet Habu : mortuary temple of Ramesses III ( XX ^th Dynasty ) and the Temple of Amun ( ^XVIII dynasty );
  • Kom el-Hettan: funerary temple of Amenhotep III ( Dynasty ^XVIII ), Colossi of Memnon ;
  • Malkatta: palace of Amenhotep III ( Dynasty ^XVIII );
• Thebes :
  • Temple of Karnak : temple of Amun-Re , of Mut , of Khonsu of Montu , of Ptah , chapels and catacombs of Osiris ;
  • Luxor Temple : Temple of Amun-Min;
• Temple of Kom Ombo
• Philae :
  • Temple of Philae

See also

• Desert Thebes