A view shows the City of the Dead, where tombs and historic cemeteries have been demolished due to a new construction project underway on the Salah Salem road, in the capital city of Cairo, Egypt ...

By LEE KEATH and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The cane chairs and umbrella still stand in the courtyard of Hussein Omar’s family mausoleum, where his grandmother came every morning ...

Mr. el-Sisi isn’t just indifferent to modern Egypt’s history; he resents it. The histories that I learned of from the City of the Dead get in the way of a putatively pristine Pharaonic past.

Thirty miles from Cairo, a new city is being developed, home to Africa’s tallest tower and the Middle East’s biggest cathedral. Critics question whether the money would be better spent elsewhere.

Egypt highway uproots graves, homes in 'City of Dead' 17 August 2024 at 19:38. Egyptian mother-of-three Menna said she was caught off guard when a bulldozer clearing space for a controversial ...

New highways carve into Cairo’s City of the Dead cemetery as Egypt’s government reshapes the city Preservationists say highway construction by the Egyptian government threatens to destroy ...

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 mausoleum of Rashwan Basha, built around 1920 in a new-Islamic style housing the graves and now threatened with demolition, is seen in Cairo's historic City of the Dead, Egypt, Sept. 1, 2023.

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.