Unknown Soldier Memorial (Egypt)

The Unknown Soldier Memorial in Cairo is a pyramid-shaped monument in Nasr City.

Its construction was ordered by president Anwar Sadat in 1974 in honor of Egyptians and Arabs who lost their lives in the 1973 October War.

At the center of the base is a solid basalt cube representing the soldier's tomb.

[citation needed] It was designed by the artist Sami Rafi, a professor in the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cairo.

[1] A small memorial to those who died in the 1973 war is present in the 6th of October Panorama.