'Tucked away amid the modern urban area of Cairo lies one of the world's oldest Islamic cities, with its famous mosques, madrasas, hammams and fountains. Founded in the 10th century, it became the new centre of the Islamic world, reaching its golden age in the 14th century.'
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The Great Pyramid is the most substantial structure of the ancient world, and one of the most mysterious. ...
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The Cairo museum houses the world's most extensive collections of ancient Egyptian art and artefacts. ...
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This step pyramid and burial complex was built in the 27th Century BC as the tomb for Pharaoh Djoser-Netjerikhet ...
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"At a principal junction in the centre of the mediaeval city stands the Mosque and Tomb of ...
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Cairo’s Al-Azhar Park was used as a rubbish dump for 500 years and over 80,000 truckloads had to ...
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The largest monumental sculpture in the ancient world, the Sphinx is carved from a ridge of stone ...
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At 6,695kms long, the Nile is the worlds longest river, meeting the Mediterranean in a vast delta ...
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'The capital of the Old Kingdom of Egypt has some extraordinary funerary monuments, including ...
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Khan el-Khalli is a fourteenth century Souq made up of 900 stalls connected by tight alleyways ...
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Founded by Sultan Al-Nasser Hassan bin Mohammed bin Qala’oun as a mosque and school, there are ...
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Better known in the UK as belly dancing, raqs sharqi literally translates as ‘Eastern dance’, ...
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