Those who live among the dead - The City of the Dead, Cairo

Those who live among the Dead The City of the Dead is the monumental cemetery of Cairo currently inhabited by almost 800,000 people who have occupied the funery chappels were the dead are burried, making them their permanent homes.

Although ranking 18th position in the list of the largest slums in the world ( of wich as many as four are in Cairo).

What is amazing there, is the overlapping of concept such as life and death, old and new. People live among the...
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Those who live among the Dead The City of the Dead is the monumental cemetery of Cairo currently inhabited by almost 800,000 people who have occupied the funery chappels were the dead are burried, making them their permanent homes.

Although ranking 18th position in the list of the largest slums in the world ( of wich as many as four are in Cairo).

What is amazing there, is the overlapping of concept such as life and death, old and new. People live among the tombs and kids play on them. But always with a total respect for those buried underground. In 90% of the cases, the buried ones do not belong to the family living “upstairs”. But they care about them like they were their beloved departed ones.
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