Cairo

Here you will untangle the design of a military capital that its founders did not live to see completed.

This is where the story begins of objects that had to be saved both from church melting-down and from urban demolition.

The inscriptions will connect court ceremony with the fate of the vizier who restored it.

This stop will help distinguish the building's medieval parts from its twentieth-century restoration.

This stop will show a dynastic building project whose patrons ended up inside it long before the work was completed.

The history of the donated plot will show how a communal mosque became the center of a new city.

Here it becomes clear how a seizure of power acquired a boundary in stone.

Here, the execution of one sultan will conclude the route about the end of Mamluk rule.

An empty storeroom will lead to an archive that preserved the everyday life of medieval Fustat.

Here, the choice of the head of the church turned from negotiations into a forcible decision.

The position of the madrasa and mausoleum will show how the dispute between the sultan and the construction supervisor ended.

A family tomb will show how kinship with the king continued to determine a person's fate after death.

Here, ancient workers’ markings will prove more convincing than treasures that were never found.

The final stop will connect the ancient statue with a royal promise recorded only after the throne had been obtained.

This stop will show how the church center moved from Alexandria to Cairo.

This huge Ottoman mosque will show how a governor asserted the hereditary power of his family.

Here, the sultan's personal struggle continues in a building conceived for prayer, study, and the memory of its patron.

This stop explains how a working photograph made with a bulky camera became the familiar image of Giza.

The search for the entrance will lead to traces of two openings, separated by centuries.

The damage on one face preserves the result of an eight-month attempt to destroy the structure.

Empty spaces in the floor will help you reconstruct the building's connection with the statues, the causeway, and the pyramid.

You will need the stone passage to understand how the gate's design turned a procession into a trap.

The towers explain why the future Fustat arose at this very spot.

The finale will return homes and streets to the vanished city, recovered from the mounds along with soil used as fertilizer.

This stop explains why the sultan had to appear before the court and garrison every week.

The square links the Citadel gate with the place from which the rebels attacked the sultan's domain.