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Egypt landmarks quiz: guess where 22 photos were taken
22 photos from Egypt and where each one was taken. A round is five photos, and all 22 are listed below.
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You see a photo, then the map. Five rounds from Egypt, scored by how far your pin lands from the real spot.
Tap the map where you think this is
Where they are
22 on the mapAll 22 places
The desert plateau on the edge of Cairo, with the only surviving ancient wonder.
Photo: Ricardo Liberato / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A limestone lion with a pharaoh’s head on the Giza plateau.
Photo: Petar Milošević / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A vast temple complex of towering columns by the Nile.
Photo: Diego Delso / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Colossal rock-cut statues of Ramesses II near Lake Nasser.
Photo: Diego Delso / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The city of a hundred gates on the Nile, home of Karnak and Luxor temples.
Photo: Rémih / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A desert valley of salt lakes and four ancient Coptic monasteries.
Photo: Lumen roma / CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The medieval heart of Cairo, packed with minarets, madrasas and old gates.
Photo: Kareem Tarek Hussein / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The desert valley where the pharaohs of the New Kingdom, including Tutankhamun, were buried.
Photo: Vyacheslav Argenberg / CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The port at the southern end of the Suez Canal, where the canal meets the Red Sea.
Photo: Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
The world's oldest working Christian monastery, at the foot of Mount Sinai.
Photo: Berthold Werner / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The step pyramid at Saqqara, the oldest large stone building in the world.
Photo: Olaf Tausch / CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Saladin's hilltop fortress, crowned by the alabaster Mosque of Muhammad Ali.
Photo: Ahmed Al.Badawy from Cairo, Egypt / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
An island temple of Isis moved stone by stone to escape the Aswan dam waters.
Photo: Olaf Tausch / CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The burial valley of the pharaohs' wives, including the painted tomb of Nefertari.
Photo: Diego Delso / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A riverside temple of Amun with an avenue of sphinxes leading to Karnak.
Photo: Ad Meskens / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The mountain where Moses is said to have received the Ten Commandments.
Photo: Gerd Eichmann / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A pyramid whose angle changes halfway up, an early experiment in pyramid building.
Photo: lienyuan lee / CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A desert island guarding the mouth of the Gulf of Aqaba, ringed by coral reefs.
Photo: Don Toofee from Dammam, KSA / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The best-preserved temple in Egypt, dedicated to the falcon god Horus.
Photo: Ad Meskens / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The first mosque in Africa, founded in 641 in what became Cairo.
Photo: Kaliper1 / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Alexander's city on the Mediterranean, once home to the Lighthouse and the Great Library.
Photo: ASaber91 / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Cairo's oldest intact mosque, from 879, with a unique spiral minaret.
Photo: User:Berthold Werner / CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsHow to place them
From Alexandria down to Abu Simbel is 1,000 km, and the other places here sit between the two. The busiest part of the map is around Wadi El Natrun, in the north-west, with places such as Pyramids of Giza, Great Sphinx of Giza and Islamic Cairo within 120 km. Nothing else is within 230 km of Abu Simbel. The nearest is Philae.
Here the photos are rated eight easy, nine medium and five hard. Wadi El Natrun, Suez, Cairo Citadel, Tiran Island and Mosque of Amr ibn al-As are rated hard. Photos rated easy include Pyramids of Giza, Great Sphinx of Giza and Thebes. Mount Sinai is the mountain where Moses is said to have received the Ten Commandments.
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How many places from Egypt can come up?
There are 22, from Alexandria down to Abu Simbel. A round uses five.
Which photo from Egypt is the hardest?
Wadi El Natrun, Suez, Cairo Citadel, Tiran Island and Mosque of Amr ibn al-As, all rated hard. Every 693 km of miss cuts the score in half.
Which photo from Egypt gives the most room for error?
Wadi El Natrun, Philae and Tiran Island. They share the widest radius on this page, 60 km, and any pin inside it scores the full 5,000.