5 legends, 1 haunted place on the free Club 49 adventure map
What the map holds here
Nabta PlayaLegend In the Nubian Desert about 100 km west of Abu Simbel stands a small circle of stones set up around 4000 BC, and it is roughly a thousand years older than Stonehenge. It marks the approximate direction of summer solstice sunrise,... Open it on the map · Read the story
The City of the Dead, CairoHaunted place A four-mile-long necropolis in Cairo where the Mamluk and Ottoman dead lie in domed tomb-houses, and where, for generations, living families have made homes among and inside the tombs, so the cemetery has streets, shops and... Open it on the map
The Curse of the PharaohsLegend When Howard Carter opened the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings in 1922 and found it packed with gold, the world thrilled, and when his patron Lord Carnarvon died of an infected mosquito bite months later, the... Open it on the map · Read the story
The Osireion at AbydosLegend Behind the Temple of Seti I at Abydos is a sunken hall of colossal stonework built as a cenotaph, a symbolic tomb, for Osiris. The central chamber is limestone and sandstone dressed to look like a Valley of the Kings tomb, and at... Open it on the map · Read the story
The Serapeum of SaqqaraLegend A rock-cut catacomb where the Egyptians buried the Apis bulls, each one held to be the living incarnation of Ptah, at least sixty of them over roughly fourteen hundred years. The boxes are what stop people in the corridor. The... Open it on the map · Read the story
The lost tomb of NefertitiLegend Nefertiti was queen at the height of the Amarna period and may have ruled Egypt in her own right, and her burial has never been identified. In 2015 an Egyptologist proposed from high-resolution scans that Tutankhamun’s tomb has... Open it on the map · Read the story
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