The Egyptian Capital Cairo through 4500 Years in 7.5 Minutes | 2560 BC – 2026 | 3D Timelapse

CHAPTERS 0:00 Cairo today 0:13 The pyramids of Giza 0:57 Sun temples and the Pyramid Texts 1:23 Kingdoms rise and fall 2:13 Memphis of the pharaohs 2:28 Assyrians, Persians and Greeks 3:11 Rome and Babylon 3:49 Fustat and al-Qahira 4:34 Fire, the Citadel and the Mamluks 5:06 Ottomans and Bonaparte 5:26 Muhammad Ali and Ismail 5:55 Revolution and the High Dam 6:23 Tahrir and the Grand Egyptian Museum 6:54 What still stands DATA AND CREDITS Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License (openstreetmap.org/copyright). Building footprints: Microsoft Global ML Building Footprints, licensed by Microsoft under the CDLA Permissive 2.0. Built-up area 1975–2020 and building heights: GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-BUILT-H R2023A, Global Human Settlement Layer © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Pesaresi M., Politis P. (2023), European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC). Terrain: produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010–2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014–2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. Data modified. Land cover: © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium, CC BY 4.0. Population: census of the city of Cairo, 1882–1947; Greater Cairo 1947–1996 at constant limits, from D. Sims (2003) after E. Denis (1999); Greater Cairo 2000–2025 from UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025. Figures before 1882 are rounded historical estimates (for 1798, the Description de l'Égypte). TAGS Cairo, history of Cairo, Egypt, ancient Egypt, pyramids, Giza, Great Pyramid, Sphinx, Memphis, Saqqara, Fustat, Islamic Cairo, Citadel, Nile, timelapse, 3D, city evolution, urban history, القاهرة HASHTAGS #Cairo #Egypt #History