In Cairo’s famous Ben Ezra Synagogue, one of the city’s most prominent Jewish landmarks, a treasure trove of history lay ...

AUC winter course "Egypt, Ancient to Modern Civilization" takes students around Egypt, including to Luxor, Saqqara/Giza, and ...

“As we uncovered the medieval level, we discovered that in ... by the Mamluk sultan in the 14th century to connect Cairo and Damascus. “The circulation of Venetian money, particularly in ...

In our modern world, moving at such an ultra-fast pace, it can feel like our cities are getting stripped of their history and ...

Led by Joachim le Bomin, an archaeologist at the University of Lyon and the French Institute for Oriental Archaeology in Cairo ... earlier than the ruins of the medieval house it was found ...

The differences between the Medieval Warm Period and today’s climate ... appeared in large cities like Alexandria, Mecca, and Cairo. In the 12th century, polymath Ibn Sina (Avicenna) even ...

In an example of the lively interchange of ideas and loyalties in multicultural, medieval Spain ... was built in Cairo between 872 and 874. Perhaps the best known hospital of the Islamic world ...

In the second millennium, beginning in the 12th century, says medieval historian Miri Rubin ... dean of the theology faculty at Al Azhar University, Cairo’s leading theological university.

Architects at the office of Mahmoud Riad looking over a maquette of the League of Arab States Building. Image © Cairo Since 1900 Every year, the Council on Tall ...

We’ve picked some of our favorite medieval games available to play now, from the realistic to the preposterous. This list isn’t necessarily ranked in any particular order. All of them are ...