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, ...

M ai Ghaly Elgazzar’s map Egypt Old Cairo blends the past and the present to capture the rich and storied history of Cairo.

Egypt submitted a request for modification of the boundary of historic Cairo during a Unesco meeting this week in the Saudi capital Riyadh, and denied reports of demolitions of historic tombs or ...

Near her grave, she would sit and pray under the date palm and among the flowering plants, a few hours of peace in Cairo ’s historic City of the Dead. Skip to content Open sections menu Sections.

A bulldozer demolishes structures in Cairo's historic City of the Dead, Egypt, on Aug. 26. Authorities have already razed hundreds of tombs as they carry out plans to build a network of multilane ...

But El Massry, 29, an Egyptian photographer, art director and film production designer based in Cairo, thought he could do better. "It was nice, but it wasn't my favorite photo I've ever taken.

Preservationists say highway construction by the Egyptian government threatens to destroy Cairo's City of the Dead, a vast historic cemetery that has been in use for more than 1,000 years ...

Historic Cairo cemetery faces destruction from new highways as Egypt's government reshapes the city By Lee Keath and Samy Magdy, Associated Press. Monday, Sept. 11, 2023 | 8:27 a.m.