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Pictures of Cairo - Egypt: Pyramids, Mosques, Palaces, Museums. Pyrmids of Khefren, Keops, Great Sphinx, Saqqarah...
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City of the Dead-Cairo-Egypt
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: The City of the Dead, also known as "Arafa" is a four mile long cemetery in eastern Cairo, which houses the tombs and mausoleums of Mamluks, where people have built their houses and live and work among tombs.
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City of the Dead-Cairo-Egypt
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: The City of the Dead is the result of the country’s chronic housing crisis shortage. Among these cemeteries lives a community of Egypt’s urban poor, forming an illegal but tolerated, separate society.
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The Citadel-Cairo-Egypt
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: The Citadel houses a number of museums, ancient mosques and other sites. Originally it served as both a fortress and a royal city.
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Mosque of Muhammad Ali in the Citadel-Cairo-Egypt
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: The Mosque of Muhammad Ali, built between 1830 and 1848, achieved a radical break with all traditional characteristics of Cairo architecture from the Mamluk style.
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The Citadel-Cairo-Egypt
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: Between 1176 and 1183, Salah ad-Din (Saladin to Westerners 1171-1193 AD), an Abbasid Ruler, fortified the area to protect it against attacks by the Crusaders.
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The Citadel-Cairo-Egypt
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: The Citadel is one of the world's greatest monuments to medieval warfare. Salah ad-Din used the most modern fortress building techniques of that time.
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Colossus of Ramses-Memphis-Egypt
Author: Marta Leonor Vidal
Text: The unfinished Colossus of Ramses in Mit Rahina open air museum is an enormous statue carved in limestone. It is about 10m long, even though it has no feet.
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Coptic Cairo-Cairo-Egypt
Author: P.Santaolalla
Text: Coptic Cairo is the oldest part of Cairo.It is believed that there was a settlement here as far back as the 6th century BC. Later, the Romans used an old fortress built by the Persians, called “Babylon”, that at that time was on the cliffs near the river Nile.
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