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 ...

Connecting major Cairo road arteries, the 17.5km Al-Ferdaous, or Paradise, highway is the latest instalment of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's urban vision. PHOTO: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE PUBLISHED ...

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.

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 ...

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.

Plans for the city include a new parliament and presidential palace, Egypt's largest airport, Africa's tallest tower, the Middle East's largest opera house, a $20bn entertainment district, and a ...

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 ...

Egypt highway uproots graves and homes in City of the Dead, a Unesco-listed world heritage site Dozens of bodies were displaced by the construction work to make way for the 17.5km Al-Ferdaous, or ...

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.

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.