Just outside of Cairo, this City of the Dead used to house only corpses dating back to the 7th century. Created as an Arabic cemetery during the conquest of Egypt, the necropolis has developed... »

Memento Mori, Catacombs, Crypts, & Cemeteries, Eccentric Homes, Outsider Architecture | Edited by JBHewlett, serflac and 2 others

Just outside the central Egyptian city of Minya lies the cemetery Zawiyyet al-Mayyiteen. Dubbed the "City of the Dead," it is considered one of the world’s largest cemeteries. It is a truly huge... »

Memento Mori, Catacombs, Crypts, & Cemeteries, Architectural Oddities | Edited by Tawsam and atimian

The ancient tombs of Petosiris and Sadosiris, which were discovered in 1972, used to be the star attraction of the Muzawaka necropolis. But too much fresh air and humidity from the breath of the... »

Memento Mori, Mummies, Catacombs, Crypts, & Cemeteries | Edited by Tawsam and atimian

Without a Bedouin guide, the Sinai is a vast, unnavigable expanse of desert. Rocky hills rise and fall underneath the blinding sun. And yet for thousands of years, this desolate peninsula was... »

Memento Mori, Ossuaries | Edited by atimian

The Dendera Light is a depiction on a stone relief at the Hathor Temple, located at the Upper Egyptian temple complex of Dendera. It has been a major source of controversy in Egyptian history,... »

Retro-Tech, Cultures and Civilizations | Edited by Tawsam, atimian and others

Not far from Mount Sinai, in the Saint Katherine Protectorate, lies the Blue Desert. Unlike the White Desert and the Black Desert (both in the Egyptian Sahara), the Blue Desert is not a natural... »

Outsider Art, Unusual Monuments | Edited by Tawsam, atimian and 3 others

Manshiyat Nasser, or as it is more popularly known, Garbage City,“ is a slum settlement with a population of around 60,000 on the outskirts of the Moqattam Hills, within Cairo’s sprawling... »

Eccentric Homes | Edited by Tawsam, Dylan and others

Around the Upper Egyptian city of Aswan are several ancient stone quarries, which were the source of Ancient Egypt's finest granite. The Northern Quarries of Aswan holds the remains of the... »

Unusual Monuments, Cultures and Civilizations , Incredible Ruins | Edited by Tawsam and atimian

Packed tightly against each other and stretching higher than many buildings around them, brown, earthen dovecotes or pigeon houses fill many Egyptian cities. In the Nile delta at Mit Ghamr,... »

Fascinating Fauna, Hunting and Taxidermy | Edited by serflac, atimian and others

Just a few hours from the bursting metropolis of Cairo lies a desert that will make you feel like you’ve landed on the surface of the moon. Formed by centuries of erosion and sandstorms, these... »

Natural Wonders, Martian Landscapes | Edited by EmilyYaMei and Nicholas Jackson