A Morbid Lifeline: Cairo’s City of the Dead ...Egypt

Cairo Necropolis, Egypt | c. Reuters “King Farouk is buried near my house,” boasted Abdul Aziz Sahel in an interview with National Geographic. “I’ve lived here for eighty years.” Sahel and his family inhabit one of Cairo’s unhidden morbidities – the City of the Dead. This vast necropolis dates back to the seventh century, today home to more than just the buried. To locals, it is known as Al-Qarafa, its horizon dotted with chipped Arabesque domes and sand lifted from nearby gravesites. Behind it sits the Citadel of Cairo, a large, looming structure which is both foreboding and ironic given its bloody history. The area was first marked as a burial ground for Arab conquests nearly 700 years ago

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A Morbid Lifeline: Cairo’s City of the Dead ...Egypt

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