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Also Known As	Deir el-Medina

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papyrus ostracon Valley of the Kings Abu Simbel Thebes Ṣaqqārah Tell el-Amarna Abydos Dayr al-Baḥrī Naukratis Per Ramessu Bubastis

Egypt

Travel down the Nile to discover important ancient Egyptian cultural sites such as the Pyramids of Giza

ancient Egypt

temple of Hatshepsut

Thebes

ancient city, Egypt

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Al-Jizah. Giza Necropolis, Giza Plateau, Cairo, Egypt. Side view of Sphinx with the Great Pyramid of Khufu (Cheops) rising in the background. The sides of all three of the Giza pyramids are astronomically oriented to be north-south, east-west (see notes)

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Temple ruins of columns and statures at Karnak, Egypt (Egyptian architecture; Egyptian archaelogy; Egyptian history)

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