City of the Dead, Cairo
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  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead 1999 - Some 1/2 million people inhabit the massive, 7km long cemetery that borders the easter side of Cairo. They form a complete civilization living on top of, within, and around the graves of their ancestors.
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 1998 - Omo Hassan is in charge of this area of tombs where she sits on the main thouroughfare everyday.
  • Some 1/2 million people inhabit the massive, 7km long cemetery that borders the easter side of Cairo. They form a complete civilization living on top of, within, and around the graves of their ancestors.
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 1999 - A tomb guardian reads the paper. For the inhabitants of the cemetery daily live goes on among the the graves.
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 1998 - Boy releases a pet dove in the family kitichen area while his mother sleeps next to a grave. Some 1/2 million people inhabit the massive, 7km long cemetery that borders the easter side of Cairo. They form a complete civilization living on top of, within, and around the graves of their ancestors.
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 2000 - Teenage girl outside her home next to the temporary water main.
  • City of the Dead, Cairo, 2000 - Mother cleans a pot on top of a grave marker near her make shift kitchen..
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 2000 - high school student does her school work at her desk set up between the grave markers.
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 1999 - Kids play among the tomb structures.
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead - A boy plays with a pet dove while the cat watches. Some 1/2 million people inhabit the massive, 7km long cemetery that borders the easter side of Cairo. They form a complete civilization living on top of, within, and around the graves of their ancestors.
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 2000 - pidgeon coop on a roof top in the qaitbay area
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 2000 - overview of the southren cemetery from a ruined mosque on the Moquatam cliffs.
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 2000 - a funeral procession passes by
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 2000 - Tomb guards and undertakers kill time sitting on grave markers.
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 2000 - A family sits me down for a chat and tea amoung the grave markers near their living space.
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 2000 - Smoking in another tomb enclosure.
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 2000 - Undertakers and laborers "shotgun". Drug use is much more common across the cememtery than in Egyptian society in general.
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 1999 - haircut time among the grave markers.
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 2000 - resident and tomb caretaker naps next to his home.
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 2000 - Young men escape from their undertaker duties and watch a television they have set up on a grave marker in a tomb.
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