Egypt

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Damn tourists.

Ah, Egypt, cradle of human civilization, birthplace of culture, writing and art!

It is home to the pyramids! 2,500 years ago, these structures were the most ancient of the Seven Wonders of the World, and they are the only one of the Seven that still exist today.

(They attract craziness like you wouldn't believe.)

Fiction

Generation 1 continuity family

Transformers Comic-Magazin

Stealth and Goldbug flew to Egypt to investigate the mystery of the pyramids, discovering that there was Cybertronian influence in their construction. The Curse of the Pyramids

Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity

Car Robots cartoon

See #2001 Robots in Disguise cartoon, below

The Headmasters cartoon

As part of a grand plan to destroy the Earth, Scorponok placed a mighty "Death Tower" of crysmagnetal in Cairo. (Spoiler: Earth wasn't destroyed.) There was a clash with Scorponok and his forces there. The Final Showdown on Earth (Part 2)

Super-God Masterforce cartoon

Decepticon Pretender Blood was sealed away in Ancient Egypt, but would later escape. Terror! The Decepticons' Manhunt

Super-God Masterforce manga

Grand implied that the Pyramid was connected to the Pretenders. The Great Turnabout of the Autobots

2005 IDW continuity

An average day in Egypt.

The Great Pyramids of Giza in Egypt were completed circa 2560 BC. Revolutionaries #1 timeline

In 1984, Joe Colton's Adventure Team travelled to the Tomb of Amtoltec in Dahshur,where they battled a horde of robotic mummies, defeated Soundwave, and discovered the Talisman while rescuing Garrison Kreiger. The Secret of the Mummy's Tomb

In the present day, Thundercracker and Marissa Faireborn toured Cairo during their globetrotting vacation. Thundercracker was noticeably unimpressed by the Sphinx, considering himself more of a "dog person." A Lonely Pillar on the Plain Behind My Bleeding Back

2001 Robots in Disguise cartoon

The last of the O-Parts was found in Egypt. A Friendly Contest Following that, it was worked out the Orb of Sigma was located in Egypt's deserts, and the Autobots rapidly high-tailed it there, eventually finding it in a pyramid. Peril from the Past

Energon cartoon

In the peaceful inter-war period, the Autobots built Desert City in Egypt. Official Guidebook

Live action film series

Revenge of the Fallen film

Around 17,000 BC, The Fallen was in Egypt (which was then a green, fertile valley) organizing the building of a Star Harvester. The other Primes took pity on the primitive humans and stole the Matrix of Leadership that powered the harvester, thereby rendering it useless and saving the planet. Many years later, the humans built the Great Pyramid of Giza over the harvester. Defiance issue 2

In 2009 AD, Jetfire took Sam Witwicky, Mikaela Banes, Seymour Simmons, Leo Spitz, Wheelie, Bumblebee, Skids, and Mudflap to Wadi Rum Egypt (which had assumed its more familiar desert appearance by that point) via a space bridge. Simmons got past the Egyptian military, who were ordered to arrest Sam after The Fallen put the price of humanity's existence on his head, by passing them off as his family: it also turned out the commanding officer, a Lieutenant General judging by his rank insignia, had visited New York City, where Simmons noted he was from, and liked the place. The group later stayed at the pyramids, where Sam figured out the Tomb of the Primes and the Matrix was hidden in Petra, Jordan.

Too big for England to steal.

After finding the Matrix, the group returned to the pyramids, where NEST and the Decepticons had landed in a nearby town, readying for battle. Devastator emerged in a quarry and climbed up the pyramid to excavate the harvester, while Megatron, Starscream, Ravage, and Constructicon clones attempted to claim the Matrix from Sam. Soundwave had jammed NEST's phone signals, but Simmons retrieved a radio from a downed Jordanian helicopter which he used to order the USS Kidd to fire her experimental rail gun on Devastator, and to get reinforcements. Sam was able to resurrect Optimus with the Matrix before The Fallen snatched it and powered his machine. Optimus and Jetfire combined and blew up the harvester before finally killing The Fallen. Revenge of the Fallen

The Last Knight film

Several years later, Egypt was among the many locations affected by the approach of Cybertron. A chunk of the metallic planet hit a pyramid, tearing it asunder and revealing the Star Harvester... again. The Last Knight

Prime cartoon

Wheeljack crash landed near the pyramids. Con Job

Smokescreen and Arcee traveled to the pyramids to retrieve the first Omega Key. They were intercepted by Megatron who demanded a fight with Optimus Prime. The two leaders had made a mess of the place by the time they finished fighting. Alpha/Omega

Cyberverse cartoon

According to Teletraan-X, the Egyptians had in fact been aliens from Alpha Centauri. Matrix of Leadership

Notes

• Modern Egypt is natively called Miṣr (مصر), though this has not been specifically noted in any Transformers media thus far.
• Revenge of the Fallen's depiction of Egypt and Jordan, more specifically the pyramids and Petra, is somewhat different compared to the real world: in the real world the pyramids are located on the Giza plateau 80 miles from the coast of the Gulf of Suez, which forms the most northern part of the western Red Sea. In the film however, the location of the pyramids is repeatedly stated in dialogue and shown via maps to be in the Gulf of Aqaba, the most northern part of the eastern Red Sea. Specifically on the most northern shore 3 miles to the west. Likewise the location of Petra also differs between fiction and reality: the real Petra is located roughly 60 miles north of the Gulf of Aqaba but in the film it is presented as being in the coastal mountains just to the east of the gulf.
• The temple of Luxor is used to portray a fictional structure located next to the pyramid of Khafre and is where the final battle between Optimus Prime, Megatron and The Fallen was filmed.

External links

• Egypt at Wikipedia