Cairo - The Necropolises and the Moqattam Hills

 
The cemeteries and necropolises which lay outside the old Fatimid town, to the east, have now been incorporated in the expanding city. Some of them are still in use; some, indeed, provide dwellings for the poorest of the living as well as for the dead.

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