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 ...

CAIRO -- If buildings could talk, the Mugamma, downtown Cairo's hulking government office complex, would say, "Come back tomorrow." With a sneer. Built half a century ago, it was meant to be a one ...

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 ...

Cairo, the capital of Egypt, is a bustling metropolis that sits on the banks of the River Nile.Home to an estimated 22 million people, the city has more recently expanded into a sprawling jumble ...

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.

THE ARCHITECTURAL CONSERVATOR Alaa el-Habashi had been restoring a 190-room 15th-century palace for years in the historic Cairo neighborhood of al-Darb al-Ahmar when, in 2007, he and his engineer ...

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.