This stunning seaside city is the largest city on the Mediterranean coast and once stood as Egypt's capital city for almost a ...

A controversial new Egyptian capital city is being built 30 miles east of ... For seven decades, the military has ruled Egypt from buildings designed during the "semi-colonial, semi-liberal ...

But a few years after Akhenaten, King Tutankhamun's father, began his reign in the early 1350s BC, the city was abandoned and Egypt's capital was moved to the city of Amarna 250 miles away.

With a population of over 22 million in 2024, the mega-city has grown at a staggering rate over the past century.

An ancient capital, lost under the sand for more ... DeAgostini/Getty Images Once Egypt's largest city, it dates back to King Akhenaten’s father, Amenhotep III, who ruled during a golden age ...

Twenty million people living in Egypt’s capital city Cairo - whose Arabic name "Al-Qahira" is translated as ‘victorious’ at times and ‘vanquishing’ at others - push tiredly and ...

The skeleton belonged to a child who lived at Amarna more than 3,300 years ago, when the site was Egypt’s capital. The city was founded by Akhenaten, a king who, along with his wife Nefertiti ...

The New Administrative Capital is centered around a financial ... to make doing business here easy.” He hopes that Egypt’s smart city design will become “a role model for other countries ...

Piye became the first pharaoh of Egypt’s 25th dynasty (ca 770-656 ... then the second city of the Kingdom of Kush, whose capital was at Napata. 3rd Century B.C. As space in Meroë’s south ...