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Two adjoining districts on the west bank, dense with apartment blocks, offices and commercial streets — and holding two of the city's more unexpected museums. The Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil Museum occupies an early twentieth-century palace and holds European painting; the Om Kalthoum Museum is dedicated to the singer who defined Egyptian music for half a century.
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Busan committee recognises landmarks across Iran, Lebanon, Palestine and beyond, while emergency protocols highlight sites under threat
The latest World Heritage roster features contentious emergency inscriptions from conflict zones alongside cultural and natural landmarks spanning five continents.
Preservation efforts and archaeological analysis advance following a significant discovery in Quintana Roo
A newly documented sinkhole in Playa del Carmen has yielded pre-Columbian pottery and skeletal fragments, prompting INAH to launch targeted research and conservation measures.
Egyptian excavations uncover rare gold currency and hundreds of ancient texts at the 'Ain al-Sebil settlement
Archaeologists have revealed a remarkably preserved mud-brick settlement dating to Egypt's Byzantine period, containing unusual coinage and over 200 inscribed pottery fragments that illuminate everyday existence in this remote desert community.
An in-depth look at the curators, scenography, and regional commissions shaping Saudi Arabia’s premier international contemporary art platform.
Explore the third edition of the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale, "In Interludes and Transitions". Our comprehensive visitor guide covers the co-curators' vision, Formafantasma's industrial scenography, major commissions, and practical tips for navigating the JAX District with Exhibo.
The book that taught Europe to picture the East arrived with no pictures at all. Three centuries of illustrators — Dutch, Egyptian, Persian, French, German, Iraqi — each gave it a face, and every face was a self-portrait.
Open Galland's Thousand and One Nights, the edition that conquered Europe, and there is nothing to look at: no genie, no lamp, not one illustration. The most visually imagined book in the world began blind — and because its text was never fixed either, no picture of it could ever be a copy.
Egypt built a museum to tell the story of an entire civilisation — seven thousand years of it, from flint tools to the present. The public knows it for one thing: the room where twenty dead kings lie in the dark.
In a black, hushed hall beneath the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Old Cairo lie the mummified bodies of Ramesses II, Hatshepsut, and eighteen other rulers of the New Kingdom — carried here in 2021 in a televised parade watched around the world.
