Red Sea resort at the tip of the Sinai.

Resort on the water at Pasha Bay.

Coral walls and wrecks of the northern Red Sea.

The 1902 museum on Tahrir Square; held Tutankhamun's treasures at the time.

Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure pyramids and the Sphinx on the Giza plateau.

Capital of the Old Kingdom; open-air museum with the colossal recumbent Ramesses II and an alabaster sphinx.

The oldest large stone building in the world (c. 2650 BC), and the first pyramid.

Sneferu's first attempt, its slope changing angle halfway up.

Sneferu's second, successful pyramid — the first true smooth-sided pyramid.

Ancient Thebes on the Nile.

Vast temple complex built over 2,000 years; the Great Hypostyle Hall.

Riverside temple of Amenhotep III and Ramesses II, fronting a 3 km sphinx-lined processional way to Karnak — then only partly excavated (fully opened 2021).

Terraced mortuary temple of Egypt's female pharaoh, set against the Theban cliffs.

Rock-cut royal tombs of the New Kingdom, including Tutankhamun's.

Two 18-metre seated statues of Amenhotep III, all that stands of his mortuary temple.

1930s house in Luxor's back streets serving Egyptian home cooking on low brass tables.