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 ...

(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 ...

After a quick stopover at the most famous market in Egypt on the bustling streets of Cairo, the onward journey ... fortress built by the Egyptian Mamluk Sultanate in the 15th century.

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 ...