Cairo is a cultural capital of the Middle East, a home for higher education, and a hub for medical and administrative ...

Egypt is constructing a new capital city, located 45 km east of Cairo, to address issues of congestion and pollution. NASA's satellite images from 2017 and 2024 highlight the city's development ...

Egypt is preparing to spend billions doubling the size of a lavish new capital it is building in the desert 45 km (28 miles) east of Cairo, where the first residents are trickling in, the head of ...

Slowly but surely, life is beginning to trickle into the city. More than 1,500 families have moved in, according to Abbas, and by the end of 2024, he expects this number to have risen to 10,000 ...

Egypt is building a new administrative capital from the ground up. But what began as a ploy to decongest Cairo’s traffic has quickly racked up criticism over a growing budget and questions about ...

Whether home to Egypt’s first pharaohs or not, Thinis became an influential political center of the 8th nome, or province, in Upper Egypt. “From the Old Kingdom (ca. 2649–2150 B.C.) on ...