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The Egyptian Museum, which opened in downtown Cairo in 1902, has long had too little exhibition space.
BBC: Egypt seeks museum design
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He told CNN the unrest in "one square kilometer in downtown Cairo" should not dissuade people from the entire country.
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On Wednesday, protesters faced off against police in downtown Cairo, with police clad in riot gear chasing demonstrators into alleys.
CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS
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Health Ministry spokesman Ahmed Osman said two protesters had been killed in violence outside the Semiramis Intercontinental hotel in downtown Cairo.
CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS
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Reports from a morgue in downtown Cairo, where many of the dead were taken, showed that most of the spectators died from asphyxiation.
WSJ: Egypt Soccer Riot Stokes Anger at Police
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On the streets of downtown Cairo, however, just blocks outside the square, hundreds of pro-Mubarak supporters, carrying sticks and throwing rocks, charged barricades erected by anti-regime protesters.
WSJ: Regime Seeks an Exit for Mubarak
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Writer visits Hawass in his office in downtown Cairo.
NEWYORKER: The Pharaoh
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CAIRO Thousands of mostly Egyptian women descended on downtown Cairo's central Tahrir Square on Tuesday to protest what many have described as systematic abuse of female activists by the interim ruling military regime.
WSJ: Egyptian Women March Against Abuse by Military
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New Cairo City is a planned community about 30km east of downtown, home to many international universities, luxury high rises and gated communities, as well as shopping malls and golf courses.
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