Photography by Nick Yoon

City of the Dead

January 18th, 2010



“For many Cairenes the City of the Dead is a mysterious, foreboding area. Many Cairenes are aware of its existence but few understand this group of vast cemeteries that stretches out along the base of the Moqattam Hills. Among these cemeteries lives a community of Egypt’s urban poor, forming an illegal but tolerated, separate society. “More than five million Egyptian live in these cemeteries, and have formed their own enterprises,” said Malak Yakan, an anthropologist and tour guide.”
Quote from Tour Egypt website

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The Pyramid of Khufu (Cheops) at Giza, Egypt


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