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Did you know ...

• the Egyptian Geological Museum, established in Cairo in 1904, was the first of its kind in Africa?
• the recent transport of the colossal Statue of Ramesses II from Cairo to the Giza Plateau was preceded by a mock move several weeks prior?
• voters in the 2005 Egyptian constitutional referendum could get free public transport in Cairo?
• when Zionists and the Jewish Anti-Zionist League clashed in Cairo in 1947, Egyptian police sided with the Zionists?
• the 1318 Mamluk Qala'un Mosque was considered the most glamorous mosque in Cairo until its wooden dome collapsed in the 16th century?
• in addition to practising as a lawyer in Cairo, Albanian nationalist Andon Zako Çajupi wrote a comedy attacking the tradition of arranged marriages?
• Deutsche Evangelische Oberschule, Cairo's oldest German school, has been running since 1873?
• Maimonides Synagogue in Cairo is named for the famous Jewish philosopher, rabbi and physician Maimonides (pictured)?
• Operation Salaam was a World War II covert operation led by the aristocratic explorer László Almásy to insert two German spies into British-held Cairo?
• despite a magnitude of only 5.8, the 1992 Cairo earthquake was the most destructive to affect Cairo since 1847, killing 545 people, injuring another 6,512, and making 50,000 homeless?
• al-Azhar Mosque (pictured) was the first mosque founded in Cairo?