Sacred Atlas

Where Is It Today?

Where Is Egypt Today?

Egypt is identified with Ain Shams. See modern location, confidence level, Scripture references, coordinates, and source attribution.

Modern locationmodern identification under review
ConfidenceHigh
Scripture refs24

High confidence

Modern identification

Ain Shams - modern identification under review

Coordinates30.1294, 31.3075
Kindregion
Claims3
Sources2

Scripture anchors

Gen 12:10Gen 12:11Gen 12:14Gen 13:1Gen 13:10Gen 15:18Gen 21:21Gen 25:18Gen 26:2Gen 37:25Gen 37:28Gen 37:36Gen 39:1Gen 40:1Gen 40:5Gen 41:8Gen 41:19Gen 41:29Gen 41:30Gen 41:33Gen 41:34Gen 41:36Gen 41:41Gen 41:43

Why this place is in the atlas

Egypt is a biblical place imported into Sacred Atlas from OpenBible.info with 24 Scripture references attached for review.

Claim ledger

foreignKeys[0] ancientId: af301ca, urlSlug: egypt, friendlyId: Egypt OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data - CC-BY-4.0 - High
identifications[0].coordinates latitude: 30.129444, longitude: 31.3075, precision: region OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data - CC-BY-4.0; upstream ODbL-1.0 - High
scriptureReferences Gen 12:10, Gen 12:11, Gen 12:14, Gen 13:1 King James Version 1769 - Public-Domain - High