Since 2018, the Belgian research project “Pyramids & Progress” brings together contemporary historians and Egyptologists from the Université libre de Bruxelles, the KU Leuven, the…
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This well-known image shows the “Bulaq Bridge” (Cairenes called it Kubri Abu al-‘Ala; before 1952 it was officially called “Fuad I Bridge”), which stood approximately where…
Comments closedThis is a unique picture, presumably from 1887 (according to the album description). It depicts people, the bridge over the long-forgotten Bulaq (Isma‘iliyya) canal,…
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