Egypt has 5,000 years of history but as far as the tourism industry is concerned, it all stopped several hundred years ago - which means that the average visitor misses a lot. The antidote to this is www.egy.com/ - a website which documents the 19th- and 20th-century history of Cairo through modern landmarks that stare you in the face but are seldom pointed out by guides or guidebooks.
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