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 ...

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 ...