The heat, site by site.
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Holidays and closures to know about
Plan it with the same data.
Everything below reads the same cited files as the briefing above, and remembers your dates on this device only — nothing is sent anywhere, and there is nothing to sign up for.
Put your stops on the map.
Choose from 18 major sites and 897 mapped places, set the days at each, and see the measured heat and the straight-line distances. Print it as a Papyrus dossier.
Fair pricesWhat should it cost?
Tips, entry and rides as published by named guides, converted at today’s rate — and where two sources disagree, both are shown.
Name studioYour name in hieroglyphs.
Spelled sign by sign from Gardiner’s list, in a cartouche you can save — and honest that it is a transliteration, not a translation.
Plan checkHave your plan read by someone in Cairo.
Send your draft itinerary; get a written check of heat, distances, holidays and prices against the data, within 48 hours.
Egypt’s GDP fell 18% and rose 68% — over the same two years.
Both numbers are real and come from the same source. Nothing about the country changed in between. Work out why in six SQL queries, in your browser — no signup, nothing to install.
What you actually get.
EgyBI is a free encyclopaedia of Egypt told through maps and open data. Every row behind every chart carries a named source and a date, and where sources disagree the page says so rather than picking the tidier number.
Six ways into the country.
Egypt is a large subject and there is no single right door. Each of these answers a different question, and they all draw on the same cited data underneath.
Planning a visit.
Where to go, what each place actually is, and what the weather is really like in the month you are thinking of — from climate records, not from a brochure.
The AtlasAll 27 governorates.
Population, density and urban share on one map, with health and school layers and Egypt’s UNESCO World Heritage sites.
PlacesEvery mapped place, searchable.
Cities and towns, airports and archaeological sites, filterable by governorate — the geographic pattern of what OpenStreetMap has recorded.
Data storiesArguments, not dashboards.
The map moves as you read. Why Egypt is smaller than it looks, where the clinics are, and what a century of street plans left behind.
The chartsEconomy to antiquity.
GDP, the Suez Canal, tourism, energy, agriculture and the ancient chronology — every figure with a named source and a date.
Street geometryA century of plans, measured.
Intersection density, dead ends and circuity across districts spanning the 1860s to the desert new towns — measured, not asserted.
One chart, to show you what the rest look like.
The knowledge base spans ancient chronology to modern economics — pharaohs, monuments, GDP, the Suez Canal, tourism, energy, demographics, and megaprojects. Note where the caption below refuses to draw a line: that is the house style, not an oversight.
Egypt tourism — arrivals & revenue
Source: Ministry of Tourism & Antiquities, Central Bank of Egypt, UNWTO/World Bank. 2021 revenue is left blank because sources genuinely disagree. See the full data explorer →
What “every figure is sourced” looks like in practice.
Claiming to be careful with data is easy. These two entries are what it costs: one is a count that surprises people, the other is a number two respectable sources disagree about — where the tidy move would be to pick one and say nothing.
Thirty-three survive. Fifteen are still in Egypt.
Eighteen stand abroad, across seven countries — nine of them in Italy alone. The tallest ancient Egyptian obelisk standing anywhere is not in Luxor but in Rome. The largest ever cut never rose at all: it cracked in the Aswan quarry and lies there still, nearly 42 metres of unfinished granite.
Egypt's population is 116 million. Or 107 million.
The World Bank put it at 116.5 million in 2024. Egypt's own CAPMAS counted about 107 million that November. Neither is wrong — they measure different things, one counting citizens abroad and the other residents at home. We keep both and say so, rather than picking the tidier figure.
Egyptian history is the subject here, not a theme laid over it.
The guide through the House of Life is Ibi, an ibis-headed scribe’s apprentice after Thoth, who kept the records. The scribe’s job was to write down what was actually counted — including when the count was uncertain.
Pepi II is traditionally credited with a 94-year reign — the longest in recorded history — per the Turin King List. Most Egyptologists today believe the figure was mistranscribed, and favour a reign closer to 64 years.
Both readings are kept, because the disagreement is part of what is known. Turin King List; Egyptological consensus per Beckerath, Chronologie des pharaonischen Ägypten.The Papyrus · before you go
One letter a month, for anyone planning Egypt.
The coming month measured: the heat at the sites, the holidays ahead, how the pound has moved — and one short story from the data that changes how a place looks to you.
From the last issue Thirty-three ancient Egyptian obelisks survive. Only fifteen are still in Egypt. The tallest one standing anywhere is in Rome, and the largest ever cut never rose at all — it cracked in the Aswan quarry and lies there still, at nearly 42 metres.
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