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On 22 February and 22 October dawn rays travel 60m to light the sanctuary gods — a 3,200-year-old solar alignment, still exact.

Egypt's futuristic coastal city-in-the-making: a skyline of seafront towers, a corniche and a heritage promenade rising from the dunes.

The grandly reopened 2.7km ancient processional road relinking Karnak and Luxor temples is the city's headline attraction.

After dark the island temple is floodlit for a multilingual sound-and-light show reached by motorboat — Aswan's hot evening ticket.

The eerie, recently restored Hindu-style 1911 mansion in Heliopolis is Cairo's most photographed reopening of the moment.