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Macabre sites in Egypt
Egypt has 19 macabre sites on Detourmap — catacombs, ossuaries, burial grounds and the sites of disasters. The best known is Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114. All of them are below.
- Macabre sites
- 19
- Of archaeological
- 19 of 263
- Little known
- 13 of 19
- Oldest
- Lady Be Good 1943
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3.Lady Be Good
Archaeological · 20th century · Notable
Aircraft that disappeared during WWII, wreckage later found in the Libyan desert
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4.Pakistan International Airlines Flight 705
Archaeological · 20th century · Notable
1965 plane crash of a Boeing 720-040B; deadliest Boeing 720 accident
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8.Sha‘ab Abū Nuhās
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Egyptian coral reef and dive site in the Straits of Gubal in the south of the Gulf of Suez
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13.El Alamein Italian Military Memorial
Archaeological · 20th century · Hidden gem
Building in Egypt
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15.Qarat Qasr Salim
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Archaeological site in the Egyptian depression of el-Bahriya
Questions about this page
How many macabre sites are there in Egypt?
19 on this map, out of 263 archaeological & historic sites in Egypt. That is what Wikidata records with coordinates, a photograph and a Wikipedia article, so it is a floor rather than a census.
What is the best known macabre site in Egypt?
Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114. Aviation accident.
Which macabre sites in Egypt are the least visited?
13 of the 19 rank as little known — a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages. They sit at the bottom of the ranked list below.
Where does this information come from?
Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.
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