The Papyrus
Egypt, told through its data.
Free, easy-to-read stories about the country and its numbers — the pound and the price of bread, 116 million people on a ribbon of green, the canal, the megaprojects, cinema and sport. No jargon, every figure real and cited.
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- Nineteen million: how Egypt won its visitors back
- A country that runs on gas, building for the sun
- The stones that left: where the obelisks actually stand
- The ninety-four-year reign that probably never happened
- The long fall of the pound, told through a cup of tea
- One hundred and sixteen million, mostly on a ribbon of green
- The canal that carries the world, and the year it went quiet
- Egypt grows a Nile of wheat and still buys the most in the world
- A capital in the desert: Egypt’s megaproject decade
- Hollywood on the Nile: a century of Egyptian cinema
- The Pharaohs, Salah, and a quiet squash dynasty
- Six sites in a single year: how Egypt filled the heritage list