In Cairo’s City of the Dead, where homes are mausoleums and communities have grown among the graves, residents speak out ...

El Massry moved to Cairo from Damietta, a port city in northern Egypt, 12 years ago to attend college — and he fell in love with the city. Nour El Massry hide caption ...

Cairo's 'City of the Dead' has been razed by the Egyptian government, which is undertaking a massive modern development project. Business Insider Subscribe Newsletters ...

Scans of a hill showed a dense concentration of abandoned buildings, so archaeologists started digging. Here’s what they ...

INCREDIBLE satellite images show Egypt’s brand-new capital city being built in the middle of the desert that will house more than six million people. The New Administrative Capital (NAC) will… ...

In an attempt to tackle overcrowding in Cairo, Egypt's government decided to build a new capital. The city, which already holds Africa's tallest building, is expected to cost $58 billion to build.

A boy plays at the site of recently demolished graves in Cairo’s historic City of the Dead, Egypt, Sept. 1, 2023. Authorities have already razed hundreds of tombs and mausoleums as they carry ...

A Cairo councilman is raising concerns after Cairo’s Mayor Booker T. Gainor IV announced his resignation on Friday to accept a position as interim city manager.

El Massry moved to Cairo from Damietta, a port city in northern Egypt, 12 years ago to attend college — and he fell in love with the city. / Nour El Massry Nour El Massry ...

Since 2020, Cairo’s authorities have relocated thousands of human remains from sections within the City of the Dead. Family members were forced to exhume and relocate remains to new graves in ...

Preservationists say highway construction by the Egyptian government threatens to destroy Cairo's City of the Dead, a vast historic cemetery that has been in use for more than 1,000 years ...

In 2019, Nour El Massry took a photo that would change his life: He snapped a photo of a large terrace in a historical building in the Garden City neighborhood of Cairo.