UNESCO World Heritage for Egypt |
UNESCO World Heritage Sites represent some of the best natural, cultural and historic attractions in world travel. Below are details of the 7 cultural, natural and mixed sites inscribed for Egypt to date (a red World Heritage symbol denotes a site currently regarded as endangered). For more details of these properties, click on the links to the UNESCO website and the photographic galleries of these sites from OurPlace (where available) or see our highlights of Egypt for descriptions. Also, check out UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage for Egypt below.
1979 - Historic Cairo | Cultural site | ||
1979 - Abu Mena | Cultural site | ||
1979 - Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae | Cultural site | ||
1979 - Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis | Cultural site | ||
1979 - Memphis and its Necropolis – the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur | Cultural site | ||
2002 - Saint Catherine Area | Cultural site | ||
2005 - Wadi Al-Hitan (Whale Valley) | Natural site |
Historic Cairo | Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae | Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis | Memphis and its Necropolis – the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur |
Intangible Cultural Heritage
Recently UNESCO has begun to document the world's Intangible Cultural Heritage which includes "traditions or living expressions inherited from our ancestors and passed on to our descendants, such as oral traditions, performing arts, social practices, rituals, festive events, knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe or the knowledge and skills to produce traditional crafts". The current listings for Egypt are shown below - click on the links for more details.
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
2008 - Al-Sirah Al-Hilaliyyah epic |