City of the Dead

In Cairo, there is a community known as the City of the Dead. Here, people bury their loved ones who have passed. Since they want to remain close to them, physically be close to them, they build their homes around the grave. Roughly two million people live here.

My long lost love, Egypt!

January 10th 2009
Well school is over; I just graduated from George Mason University with an International Conflict Resolution degree, so what better thing to do than to travel!! A last-minute trip to Egypt sounded like the right thing to do!! A country which I have always had a special connection to! Arrived late in Cairo on December 28th and immediately introduced to Egyptian time: We called for the hotel airp ... read more

Africa » Egypt

The regularity and richness of the annual Nile River flood, coupled with semi-isolation provided by deserts to the east and west, allowed for the development of one of the world's great civilizations. A unified kingdom arose circa 3200 B.C. and a ser... ... read more

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