The Sultan Al-Ghuri complex was built in the time of the last Mamluk sultans, Sultan Qansuh al-Ghuri between the years 1503 and 1505. The Sultan Al-Ghuri complexes on both sides of the al Mu'izz ...

Director General of East Cairo Antiquities Abdullah Saad said strenuous efforts are being exerted to develop a number of archaeological sites in the area as part of project Urban Regeneration for ...

(a cemetery) in Cairo that has served as a burial site for nearly 1,400 years. A Brief History of Cairo's City of the ...

In 1347 slave traders from the Black Sea brought with them something far deadlier than a cargo of future Mamluk warriors: the Black Death. Plague infested the whole of the known world, but nowhere ...

A Journey Through the Stories of Stones] and Khitat Al-Qahera – Maqalat fi al-tatawur al-omrani [Cairo Maps: Articles on ...

As the early morning mist clears with the sunrise, a unique group of international practitioners of the ancient art of Mamluk archery gathers on a dune top overlooking scattered camel pens and ...

This sub-project explores the role of translation in the formation and early stages of the Ottoman-Turkic literary corpus, by juxtaposing this with its role in the development of the Mamluk-Turkic ...

The Mamluk Sultanate, which ruled from Cairo over Egypt, the Levant and the Hijaz until the 16th century, developed a distinctive architectural language that included ornate minarets, carved stone ...