With a few notable exceptions, the last few days and weeks have brought plenty of news of closings and postponements. Thankfully, these uncertain times haven’t stopped the completion of an ambitious ...
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The Grand Egyptian Museum, which opened on Oct. 1 as the world’s largest museum dedicated to a single ...
Ala El-Nar, the latest series from the Khazana School of Heritage, explores Egyptian heritage food, crops, and traditions. The series launched on 17 June at the House of Egyptian Architecture, in ...
As he submitted the final maquettes (small-scale models) of Egypt's folk architecture to the soon-to-open Museum of Folk Arts, Ahram Online spoke to the master himself about the merits and grace of ...
Contemporary Egyptian architecture draws from a rich history. As a cradle of civilization, the transcontinental country has influenced diverse building styles and design cultures. Home to some of the ...
Maybe those Egyptian pharaohs were on to something. You don’t have to be Indiana Jones to know they were consumed with the idea of eternal life. And if enduring influence after one’s years have passed ...
Like our weather fronts that come and go, trends in architecture come and go as well. These trends are most often driven by social preferences of the time, advances in technology, new construction ...
When building in dry-stone, Nubians and Egyptians used different techniques to construct walls. Wadi es-Sebua has been used as a type-site for C-Group Nubian settlements. Its exterior wall exhibits ...
When Isis first arrived on Greek shores in the 3rd century BCE, her new followers had to build sanctuaries appropriate to an Egyptian goddess. In the process of imagining a place for their Greek Isis ...
Lining the banks of the Nile River, Cairo is a fusion of ancient. Churches are built atop Roman ruins and skyscrapers rise behind medieval monuments. Egypt's capital is best known for preserving the ...