Egypt

How £6 million in construction debt became £100 million in sovereign liability, and how European bankers ensured that Egypt paid three times over for a canal it did not own.

How a friendship between a French diplomat and an overweight Egyptian prince produced the most consequential — and lopsided — infrastructure contract of the nineteenth century.

A historical analysis of Mohamed Ali Pasha's industrialization and state-building in Egypt, examining the human cost of his brutal 'New Order' and the systematic extraction of Upper Egypt.

From Egyptian mummification to Roman garum sauce, explore how salt shaped ancient civilizations, trade routes, and the foundations of empire.