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City of the Dead, Cairo

36 images Created 31 Jan 2011

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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.
    overview Quaitbay + kid 99x.TIF
  • 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.
    omo hassan + coffin 98.TIF
  • 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.
    Over view w kids.TIF
  • 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.
    reading paper 99xx.TIF
  • 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.
    dove 980720.TIF
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 2000 - Teenage girl outside her home next to the temporary water main.
    girl left water main 001119.TIF
  • City of the Dead, Cairo, 2000 - Mother cleans a pot on top of a grave marker near her make shift kitchen..
    washing pan on grave000820.TIF
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 2000 - high school student does her school work at her desk set up between the grave markers.
    homework closer 002718.TIF
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 1999 - Kids play among the tomb structures.
    boy in stuctured portal 99x.TIF
  • 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.
    catching dove + cat.TIF
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 2000 - pidgeon coop on a roof top in the qaitbay area
    pidgeon roost 004403.TIF
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 2000 - overview of the southren cemetery from a ruined mosque on the Moquatam cliffs.
    overview from ruin tilt0077.TIF
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 2000 - a funeral procession passes by
    funeral cropped 009726.TIF
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 2000 - Tomb guards and undertakers kill time sitting on grave markers.
    sitting on gr one leg007810.TIF
  • 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.
    family chaos 008426.TIF
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 2000 - Smoking in another tomb enclosure.
    smokin in tomb 008514.TIF
  • 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.
    shotgun mohamed on gr004718.TIF
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 1999 - haircut time among the grave markers.
    haircut 991310.TIF
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 2000 - resident and tomb caretaker naps next to his home.
    sleeping w graves 00x136.TIF
  • 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.
    tv on tomb.TIF
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 2000 - Undertakers enter a tomb crypt they have just opened.
    men going into crypt.TIF
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 2000 - Young men show the interior of a crypt they are repairing.
    guys in crypt with bones.TIF
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 1998 - skull found in the collapsed debris of a tomb.
    skull 98xxxx.TIF
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 2000 - Washing and hanging laundry among the graves.
    laundry 001502.TIF
  • Cairo, Egypt, The City of the Dead, 1999 - Abdul Rassy naps next to a grave marker.
    ab dul rassy sleep991429.TIF
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