How Egypt had a city of the dead .

Egypt's peculiar "City of the Dead".

When it comes to Egypt, anyone with even a modicum of world knowledge will immediately mention the pyramids. But in addition to the glossy pyramids, if you're in Egypt, it's best not to miss the capital, Cairo, a "city of the dead" that houses hundreds of thousands (and now millions) of living people.

The City of the Dead is not only a peculiar place in Cairo, but also unique in the world. There is a theory that the "city of the dead" is the result of the polarization of Cairo society.

With a booming population, housing constraints, and expensive land, it has gradually become a colony for the poor in Cairo and is one of the areas where crime is most rampant. In recent years, Egypt has invested in the gradual improvement of power supply, water supply and other facilities here, and the rectification of public security. This shows that ** recognizes the situation where the living and the dead live together in the "City of the Dead".

"The dead are buried underneath, and the living live on the earth." The tombs here are built in the style of a dwelling, with gates, walls, courtyards, houses, and, of course, tombs!

In fact, it was originally a tomb, but some poor people built houses to live in. Not far from the city, there are also mosques, minarets and other things. Outside, there's a cauldron with antennas, and it's like a dead man watching TV

It was caused by a disaster.

"City of the Dead" is not only unique to be held in Cairo, but also unique in the world. The reason for the "dead city" is the social polarization of population growth, housing pressures such as the cost of land, which has gradually become poor living in Cairo.

In recent years, Egypt has financed and gradually improved here, electricity, water supply and other facilities to improve law and order, which states that ** approved the "city of the dead" where life and death are mixed together.

Stand on the ground in front of Saladin's high citadel in Cairo for a bird's-eye view of the northeast, in the famous Al-Azhar Park Tan Muslim-covered mountains, stretching low gray dilapidated buildings, which are Cairo's most famous "karaoke" cemetery group, often referred to as the "City of the Dead".

This "dead city" with an area of about six square kilometers shows not only the history of the dead, but also the more vivid stories of life. "Dead City" in mystical colors, this unique place has attracted foreign tourists.

Dead cities "bury dead people underground, and families live on the ground." Here according to the residential style of the mausoleum, built with houses, with gates, enclosures, courtyards and houses, of course in 1830. Most of the houses have only one or two floors, which are the main doors on the wall, engraved in 1830 with the names and numbers of the heads of the household.

The grave keepers of the "Dead City" are also divided into two categories, the vast majority of the grave keepers, for others, and a few are looking at their own graves and the courtyards where the graves live together. In search of their graves, who are generally families, we can not purchase the property, and the decency of the city must abandon its hard restraints to care for the graves.

Despite living in the mausoleum of the house, the inhabitants still live in this satisfaction. Spacious house, the tomb is quiet, full of trees, and you don't have to pay rent, water and electricity, life is very convenient.