Cairo’s cinemas were once art deco masterpieces of architecture. Today, these same cinemas are mostly crumbling or already long demolished, but a few can still be enjoyed by those in search of a lost golden age.

Cairo’s al-Hilmiyyah neighbourhood has been shaped by extravagant palaces and powerful personalities, which, although now long gone, still find their echo in the area’s modern street names. None, however, made as strong an impact as Abbas Pasha’s al-Hilmiyyah Palace.

Although food is generally perishable, quite a bit of evidence has survived to show us what the ancient Egyptians ate. Not only do we have brightly coloured tombs and numerous texts, but also ancient examples of plant remains and food.