The 350-year-old Beit Seheimi, an architectural jewel in the heart of Islamic Cairo, is soon to open its ... renovating the building -- a five-level Mamluk-style house some of whose rooms are ...

The Sultan Al-Ghuri complex was built in the time of the last Mamluk sultans, Sultan Qansuh al-Ghuri between the years 1503 and 1505. The Sultan Al-Ghuri complexes on both sides of the al Mu'izz ...

A large Mamluk-era Quran manuscript from the late 1470s is among the artifacts to be auctioned at Sotheby's today.

In 1347 slave traders from the Black Sea brought with them something far deadlier than a cargo of future Mamluk warriors: the Black Death. Plague infested the whole of the known world, but nowhere ...

The Mamluk Sultanate, which ruled from Cairo over Egypt, the Levant and the Hijaz until the 16th century, developed a distinctive architectural language that included ornate minarets, carved stone ...