An editorial publication on the practical reality of visiting Egyptian sites. Five field readings on Saqqara, Philae, the Cairo Citadel, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, and the Western Desert — assembled by an editor based in the country.
Each entry holds the architecture of a short broadsheet report: place, fact, route. No affiliate links, no transactional services.
The Stepped Pyramid of Djoser was the world's first large building in cut stone. Imhotep designed it around 2670 BCE; a Franco-Egyptian conservation programme finished a twenty-year restoration in 2020. A reading on the complex, the South Tomb, and the recently reopened serdab.
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The Isis temple complex was disassembled into 40 000 blocks and rebuilt on Agilkia, sixty metres higher than its original Philae Island, between 1972 and 1980. The relocation was the final phase of the UNESCO Nubia Campaign. A reading on the temple, the boat access, and the latest sound-and-light programme.
Read the entry →An eight-hundred-year continuous-occupation fortress on the Mokattam ridge. The complex holds three mosques, three museums, the audience hall of the Mamluk sultans, and a panoramic terrace looking west across all of Cairo to the pyramids of Giza on a clear day.
Read the entry →The new library, opened on 16 October 2002, is the third great library of Alexandria. The shelved collection holds eight million volumes; the building itself, designed by Snøhetta, is one of the major works of contemporary public architecture. The reading rooms, the Antiquities Museum below them, and the Pharos of Alexandria, of which essentially nothing remains.
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The deep south-western quarter of Egypt holds a sequence of oases — Bahariya, Farafra, Dakhla, Kharga — and between them, the Sahara's most distinctive geological landscapes. The White Desert is a National Protected Area as of 2002; the chalk formations are the eroded remnant of a Cretaceous sea floor.
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Editor of the Broadsheet. Background in urban infrastructure and heritage logistics, with a doctorate from Cairo University on the management of UNESCO-inscribed sites. Lives in Cairo, writes from the ground. More about the project →