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Bookmark or Share- Features - Egypt's Eternal City - Archaeology MagazineThe remains of Heliopolis—including its only remaining obelisk—are surrounded by the Cairo neighborhood of Matariya. For more than two millennia, Heliopolis was the center of Egyptian...
- Heliopolis, Cairo - WikipediaHeliopolis (Egyptian Arabic: مصر الجديدة, Maṣr el-Gedīda, [ˈmɑsˤɾ el ɡɪˈdiːdæ, -eɡ-], lit. "New Egypt") was an early 20th century suburb outside Cairo, Egypt, which has since merged with Cairo and is administratively divided into the districts of Masr El Gedida and El Nozha in the Eastern Area. [1]
- Heliopolis (ancient Egypt) - WikipediaHeliopolis was one of the oldest cities of ancient Egypt, occupied since prehistoric Egypt. [1] It greatly expanded under the Old and Middle Kingdoms but is today mostly destroyed, its temples and other buildings having been scavenged for the construction of medieval Cairo.
- Heliopolis - World ArchaeologyRescuing Ancient Egypt’s temple of the sun. Heliopolis had the largest boundary of any Ancient Egyptian temple, but little of this extraordinary religious complex remains visible today.
- Heliopolis | Old Kingdom, Sun Cult, Obelisks | BritannicaHeliopolis, one of the most ancient Egyptian cities and the seat of worship of the sun god, Re. It was the capital of the 15th nome of Lower Egypt, but Heliopolis was important as a religious rather than a political centre. During the New Kingdom (c. 1539–1075 bce) its great temple of Re was second.
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