A significant archaeological breakthrough has been uncovered in the historic district of Matariya, Ain Shams, where ...

Documenting the architectural heritage of the Cairo district of Heliopolis may be the only way to save the neighbourhood for future generations “If all the images and sounds that I have saved in my ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a number of broken statues of ancient Egyptian royalty at a temple near Cairo. These include Pharaoh Ramesses II, who was the most powerful and celebrated ruler of Egypt ...

Contemporary Heliopolis is late Belgian entrepreneur and industrialist Edouard Empain’s magnificent project. He decided, at the beginning of the 20th century, to build a city-garden in the middle of ...

More than a century ago, the land east of Cairo was little more than open desert. Then came the Belgian Baron Édouard Empain, carrying an ambitious dream: to build a modern suburb unlike anything ...