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HANDS ON Traditional Crafts at The City of the Dead in Cairo
Tomb of Guzal (No.89), A.D. 1403 / 805 A.H.

The tomb of Guzal (or Kuzal) is locally known as Sidi Karkar due to a mistaken reading of the inscription on it. The tomb chamber is built of stone. The stepped zone-of-transition with one-over-two keel arch windows and the dome with a rib-and-fillet decorative pattern are built of bricks and are completely in the style of early Mamluk domes built nearby in the reign of Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad. When the tomb was built, the construction of the complex of Sultan Farag Ibn Barquq had started not far away, to be completed eight years later. That building initiated the craft of building domes in carved stone that continued till the end of Mamluk times.

This website is a result of a conservation and research project at the Hawd of Sultan al-Ashraf Qaitbey in Cairo's City of the Dead. The project was financed by the European Union Delegation to Egypt with a contribution from the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and implemented in 2014 by Cairo-based ARCHiNOS Architecture in association with the German Archaeological Institute in Cairo under supervision of the Ministry of Antiquities and Heritage.

The web site is funded, produced, and designed by ARCHiNOS Architecture.

Website designed in 2014 by Maha Akl for ARCHiNOS Architecture.

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