2008 Map “Historic Cairo”, A3, scale 1:50000 showing in black the boundary of component 089-001 and in yellow its buffer zone. Clarification / adopted 2008 Map “Al-Fustat”, A3, scale 1:2500, ...

Cairo is at the intersection of civilizations dating back more than 5,000 years, and reminders of that lie in front of you at ...

The historical development of Cairo 20-923/642-1517: an overview / Ayman Fuad Sayyid -- The urban character of al-Darb al-Ahmar / Nasser Rabbat -- A Traveller's account: Nasir-i Khusraw in ...

The Pyramids of Giza, medieval markets, and the legendary Nile are just a few highlights of Egypt’s energetic capital. Here’s ...

CAIRO (AP) — With verdant gardens on one side and water on the other, they were an anomaly in a city bordered on three sides by desert. For decades, Cairo's houseboats occupied prime waterfront real ...

CAIROCAIRO — For centuries, sultans and princes, saints and scholars, elites and commoners have been buried in two sprawling cemeteries in Egypt’s capital, creating a unique historic city of the dead.

This week saw the launch of the Historic Cairo Forum intended to help preserve and rehabilitate Historic Cairo. Historic Cairo stands as a living testament to Egypt’s rich cultural and religious ...

CAIRO — The cane chairs and umbrella still stand in the courtyard of Hussein Omar’s family mausoleum, where his grandmother came every morning for 19 years after her daughter — his mother — died. Near ...

CAIRO >> With verdant gardens on one side and water on the other, they were an anomaly in a city bordered on three sides by desert. For decades, Cairo’s houseboats occupied prime waterfront real ...