This map is charted by the Ottoman Admiral and cartographer Piri Ries, probably during 1516 and 1519 AD while he was joining the Ottoman conquest of Egypt under Selim I. The map is drawn with the direction of the North to the bottom as some other Medieval European Iconographic maps (in which plans are represented as if seen from infinite viewpoints). The cartographer manipulated the features of the built environment and the skyline of the city to look like an Ottoman city. Moreover the convoys

The Civitates Orbis Terrarum, published in Cologne between 1572 and 1617, is the most famous of the early town atlases.

The map shows the plan of "Modern Cairo" as envisioned by Grand Bey after the commsion of Khediev Isamil. The map focuses on the major throughfare cutting the fabric of the old city to connect the old seat of power, the citadel with the new one, Abdeen Palace.

The map was charted in scale 1:5000 by the Survey of Egypt in 1936, reprinted with corrections of street names in March 1940, and again reprinted with the latest street names in 1946. The map is astonishingly precise showing public gardens, cemetaries (classified as Muslim, Christian and Jewish), religios buildings, public buildings and railroads

Charted with scale 1:5000, this map was produced by the Survey of Egypt on 2 sheets 31.5x42.25 inches