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City of the deads
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| Photo Information |
| Copyright: Mario La (rithi) (111) |
| Genre: Places |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 1991-11-02 |
| Categories: Architecture |
| Camera: Canon AE-1 Program |
| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2005-07-16 10:46 |
| Viewed: 1378 |
| Points: 2 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
Many magnificent funerary complexes are located here including the Mosque of Qaitbey (completed in 1474 AD), the Complex of Sultan Ashraf Barsbey and the Mausoleum of Ibn Barquq.
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.
In modern times, because of Egypt’s housing crisis, a lack of satisfactory and affordable housing for a rapidly growing population, many poor Egyptians have made these rooms their permanent homes. These invaders have adapted the rooms to meet their needs. They have used the grave markers as desks, and shelves. They have hung strings between gravestones for their laundry to dry out.
It is believed than five million Egyptian live in these cemeteries, and have formed their own enterprises.
Photo shot with Canon AE1 Program transfered in digital from a color slide (sorry for the poor quality) and enhanced with Photoshop CS2 |
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The picture is Fantastic
"It is believed than five million Egyptian live in these cemeteries, and have formed their own enterprises."!!!!!!
Please don't beleive any stupid thing you are told..If you mean 5 million egyptians "LYE" in these cemeteries that would be a little more credible...
