العدد (618) - اصدار (5-2010)

Damanhur.. The God Horus City Khalid Azab

I have known Damanhur since childhood. According to the Egyptians it is a “bandar”: a major city with wide streets and public utilities visited by the people living in the towns and villages in the south-west Nile delta to consult doctors or for shopping and selling their goods. But Damanhur underwent a dramatic transformation in the second half of the twentieth century when it became a key station on the Cairo-Alexandria railway line