In a part of Cairo known as the Garbage City, Magada Bamy’s hands move so swiftly that they nearly blur as she sifts through a bag of trash. “Grade A, grade B,” she mutters to herself ...

Since 2020, Cairo’s authorities have relocated thousands of human remains from sections within the City of the Dead. Family members were forced to exhume and relocate remains to new graves in ...

The City of the Dead, covering nearly five square kilometres, has been a unique space in Cairo for centuries. Originally a desert plain outside the city, it first came into use soon after the ...

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.

Cairo masterplan threatens ancient City of the Dead. 26 May 2023. Share Save. Wael Hussein & Yolande Knell. ... Taha Hussein, after his grave was marked with a red "x" for demolition. ...

Cairo's historic City of the Dead under threat from urban expansion Starting in 2020, ongoing road construction has been encroaching upon the Islamic necropolis on the outskirts of Egypt's capital.

In the past two years, the locations of several thousand graves in Historic Cairo, a Unesco World Heritage Site, external, have been razed. They include some in the famous City of the Dead.