city of the dead

“It’s funny if you think about it. The thing that kept him alive was traveling through the City of the Dead.”

“We are literally entering an underground city of the dead through a wormhole at the Gate of Hell.”

Near her grave, she would sit and pray under the date palm and among the flowering plants, a few hours of peace in Cairo ’s historic City of the Dead.

Authorities have already razed hundreds of tombs and mausoleums as they carry out plans to build a network of multilane highways through the City of the Dead, a vast cemetery that has been in use for more than a millennium.

Preservationists fear that will mean the City of the Dead’s end: Carved up between highways, its remaining pieces would be vulnerable to further destruction.