List of Egyptian castles, forts, fortifications and city walls

List by age

Pharaonic

Lower Egypt

• Fortification of Memphis
• Fort of Walls of the Prince, Eastern Delta.
• Fortress of Wadi Natrun, western Delta.
• Rhakotis fort, Alexandria
• Tahpanhes fort or Castle of the Jew's Daughter
• Heliopolis Fortifications.

  Middle Egypt

• Pi-Sekhemkheperre, near Herakleopolis Magna

  Upper Egypt

• Kom el-Ahmar fortifications
• Fortress of Abydos
• Shunet ez Zebib forts near Abydos
• Medinet Habu New Kingdom fortification
• El-Kab fortifications
• Thebes fortifications.

  Sinai

• The Way of Horus coastal forts, Sinai
• Tharu castle, Sinai
• Qantara East fort, Sinai
• Kolsum castle, Suez
• Boto Fort of Seti I,, Sinai.
• Tell-Huba Fortress, Sinai
• Pelusium Fort,
• Tharu city fortifications.

  Western Desert

• Siwa Oasis fortification, Western desert of Egypt
• QasrAllam fort

  Nubia

• The ancient castle at Buhen
• Fort of Kubban, Nubia
• Semna fortification
• Kumma fort
• Aniba Fort
• Uronarti fort
• Mirgissa fort
• Shalfak fort
• Askut fort
• Senusret I-III seventeen south fortresses.
• Dabenarti fort
• Faras Fort
• Serra Fort.

Persian

• Persian fort of Rhakortis, North coast

  Greco-Roman

Cairo

• Fort Babylon, Cairo

  Delta

• Naucratis Greek fort

  Kharga Oasis

• Ain Umm Dabadib fort, Kharga Oasis.
• El Deir fort, Kharga Oasis.
• Qasr el Labeka fort, Kharga Oasis.
• Qasr Sumaria fort, Kharga Oasis.
• Qasr el Geb fort, Kharga Oasis.
• Al-Haiz fort, Bahariya Oasis.
• Nadura fort, Kharga Oasis
• Qasr el-Ghueita fort, Kharga Oasis
• Qasr el-Zayyan fort, Kharga Oasis

  Red Sea

• Castellum of Badia, Gebel Abu Dukhan, near Hurghada, Red Sea
• Abu Sha'ar Fort, Red Sea.

  Fayoum

• Temple of Stones fort, Fayoum.
• Der el Memun, fort where Anthony the Great lived, across from Faiyum.

  Lower Egypt

• Al-Heita fort, Eastern desert, Qena.

  Sinai

• Saint Catherine's Monastery fortification, Mount Sinai in the Sinai Peninsula

  North coast

• Alexandria fortifications
• Taposiris Magna Fortress, Alexandria

  Arabic

[Cairo]

• Cairo Citadel, Mukkattam, Cairo
• Ayyubid Cairo City Fortification
• Gates of Cairo
• Al Fustat city walls

  Alexandria

• Citadel of Qaitbay, Alexandria
• Fortification of Bab Rosetta, Alexandria
• Qaitbey Citadel, Rosetta

  Red Sea & Eastern desert

• Quseir Castle

  Sinai

• Salah El-Din castle, Pharaoh's Island, Sinai
• Nweiba' Castle
• Qalaat Al-Gindi, Ras Sedr, Sinai
• Al-Arish citadel
• Nakhl citadel
• Farma citadel
• El Tina castle, North Sinai

  Western desert

• Siwa oasis fort
• Shali fortified village, Siwa Oasis.

  Modern Egypt

Cairo

Alexandria & North coast

• Fort Julien, Rosetta Fort.
• Agami Fort, Alexandria
• Abu Qir Castle

  Western Desert

• Mersa Matruh Fortifications
• Sidi Barrani Fortifications
• Alam el Halfa Fortifications
• Sollum fortified base camp
• Halfaya Pass Fortification
• Bir-Hakeim fort

  Sinai

• Al-Arish castle
• Sharm El-Sheikh fortification by Egypt
• Castle Zaman, Sinai

  Suez canal

• Adgerud castle, Suez.
• Kolsum castle, Suez.
• Bar Lev Line
• * Fort Lahtzanit
• * Fort Budapest

  Red Sea & Eastern Desert

• Green Island Fortification, Red Sea
• Shadwan island fortifications, Red Sea

  List by areas & time

Western Desert

• Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham, a Ramesside fort near the Libyan coast where Egyptian blue was found

  Alexandria

• Qaitbey Castle.
• Fort Pharos
• Fort Silsileh
• Fort Adda
• Fort Ras-el-Tin
• Fort Marabout
• Fort Adjemi
• Marza-el-Kana
• Citadel of Mex
• Fort Kamaria
• Fort Om Qabeba
• Fort Saleh Aga

  [Rosetta]

• Fort Julien

  [Port Said]

• El Gamil

  [Damietta]

• Ezzbet El-Borg Defensive tower.
• Urabi Fort.
• Old Damietta city wall & Fortifications.

  Sinai">Sinai Peninsula">Sinai castles, forts, fortifications and citadels

• 13th century BC The Way of Horus coastel & Sinai forts.
• 13th century BC Tharu castle.
• 13th century BC Boto Fort,, Sinai.
• 13th century BC Tel Habwa Fort,, Sinai
• 13th century BC Tel Kadwa Fort, Sinai
• 13th century BC Tel Al Hebr Fort, Sinai
• 13th century BC Kharouba Fort, Sinai
• 13th century BC Baer Al-Abd Fort, Sinai
• Unknown time Pharonic El Tina castle, Beer Al Abd, North Sinai
• Circa 100 BC Ptolemaic Fort of Tal Abou Sayfi, South of Qantara Sharq city.
• 200 AD Roman Fort of Tal Abou Sayfi, South of Qantara Sharq city.
• Unknown time Roman Lahfen castle near Al-Arish.
• Saint Catherine's Monastery fortification, Mount Sinai, Sinai Peninsula.
• 640 AD Farma citadel.
• 7th century AD Justinian's Strasini Fort, Tel Felosiyia, near Pelusium.
• 7th century AD Garha Roman fort, on Bardawil lake, North Sinai.
• Unknown time Byzantine fort, qaseema, Hosna, Middle Sinai.
• Unknown time Al-Mohammadyia Arabic Fort, Beer Al Abd, North Sinai.
• 1115 AD Al-Soubak Fort, Wadi Araba.
• 1116 Ad Aiyla fort, Aiyla city, Aqaba bay.
• 1116 AD Pharaoh Island Fort, Aqaba bay.
• 1117 AD Wadi Musa fort.
• 1181 AD Aiyla Island Castle.
• 1182 AD Salah El-Din castle Sedr, Sinai.
• 1184 AD Qalaat Al-Gindi, Ras Sedr, Sinai.
• 1184 AD Salah El-Din castle, Taba, Sinai.
• 1516 AD Al-Arish citadel.
• 1516 AD Al-Baghla fort.
• 1516 AD Naqab Al-Aqaba Fort.
• 1516 AD An-Nakhl Fortress.
• 1799 AD Qatiyah Fort, West of sinai.
• 1799 Siege of El Arish Castle
• 1893 Nuweiba Castle.
• 1910s Turkish Fortifications at Hosna, middle Sinai.
• 1910s Turkish Fortifications at Al-Arish Castle, North Sinai.
• 1910s Turkish Fortifications at Nekhel, Sinai.
• 1910s Turkish Fortifications at Salah El Din Castle, South Sinai.
• 1960s & 1970s Egyptian Defensive fortifications built by Egyptian Armed forces during the Attrition war on the Western bank of Suez canal & Bar Lev Line of fortifications on Eastern side of Suez Canal.
• 1990s Touristic Castle Zaman, Sinai
• Unknown time Ain al Qudairat Fort, Hosna, North Sinai.