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Galería de Fotos El Cairo

 Pictures of Cairo - Egypt: Pyramids, Mosques, Palaces, Museums. Pyrmids of Khefren, Keops, Great Sphinx, Saqqarah...

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	Bab Zuwayla-Cairo-Egypt Author: Marta Leonor Vidal Text: Bab Zuwayla defines the southern limits of the Fatimid City. It is named after the al-Zawila, a Berber tribe whose Fatimid soldiers were quartered nearby.
	Khufu ship-Giza-Egypt Author: Marta Leonor Vidal Text: It is one of the oldest, largest, and best-preserved vessels from antiquity. It was considered as the world's oldest intact ship and a masterpiece of woodcraft that could sail today if put into water.
	Khufu ship-Giza-Egypt Author: Marta Leonor Vidal Text: The ship was almost certainly built for Khufu (King Cheops). It was sealed into a pit at the foot of the Great Pyramid of Giza around 2,500 BC.
	Beit al Suhaymi-Cairo-Egypt Author: Marta Leonor Vidal Text: Bayt al Suhaymi is an historic, restored house next to Khan el Khalili. The oldest section was built in 1648 A.D. The house was purchased in 1796 by Sheikh Ahmed as-Suhaymi.
	Beit al Suhaymi-Cairo-Egypt Author: Marta Leonor Vidal Text: Bayt al Suhaymi is the best example of a rich private house dating to seventeenth century Egypt. The house also demonstrates a lot about the art of the period and how people used to live in the Ottoman period. It was restored in 1997.
	Beit al Suhaymi-Cairo-Egypt Author: Marta Leonor Vidal Text: Most of the spaces within the house were designed around climatic considerations, like the remarkable mashrabeya screens in the house, overlooking the street.
	Al Azhar Street-Cairo-Egypt Author: Marta Leonor Vidal Text: The market of Khan el-Khalili, once known as the Turkish bazaar during the Ottoman period was built in 1382 by the Emir Djaharks el-Khalili in the heart of the Fatimid City. The Khan is bordered on the south by al-Azhar Street and on the west by the Muski Market.
	City of the Dead-Cairo-Egypt Author: Marta Leonor Vidal Text: The City of the Dead, also known as "Arafa" is a four mile long cemetery in eastern Cairo, which houses the tombs and mausoleums of Mamluks, where people have built their houses and live and work among tombs.
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