Chapter 315: City of the Dead

There are only three or four places to play in Oceania, and the others are scattered areas, which is not interesting.

Five of the seven continents have been traveled, and two remain, Africa and Antarctica. Needless to say, Antarctica stayed to challenge the limit at the end, and everyone came to Africa, the first stop in Egypt.

Song Qiao heard that Johnson was going to Egypt, and called directly to say that a local tour guide must be arranged this time, she had a painful experience, and was hacked by the locals for a lot of money, Johnson didn't care.

Seeing Nefer Tali, who had studied in China for two years, and his Chinese was still okay, what amazed Johnson was his skin and facial features, but he didn't expect that there were such white and tender beauties in Africa?

Walking on the streets, the reason why I chose here is nothing more than to see the face of the four ancient countries. It turns out that a country like Egypt, which has ceased to be glorious and in decline for a long time, can leave a few impressions of nothing more than poverty and filth, and nothing else.

finally understood that Song Qiao's worries were right, he was always surrounded by small traders who were chasing after him, and he was shoddy and changed the handicrafts that were stuffed into everyone's hands. It is as if the curiosity of foreign tourists has formed a seamless system here.

Thankfully, Nefer was here, otherwise it would have been hard to deal with.

Whether it is the environment or the architecture, the overall feeling is similar to India, but unlike India's attitude of calmly allowing tourists to consume poverty, some countries have long been well versed in the psychology of tourists, hoping that they will watch the life of the local poor, put down some pity money, and feel that their lives are not bad, and everyone is happy.

By taking advantage of this mentality, many slums and downtown areas have already been developed into attractions of their own, and you visit with a sense of superiority, and we are justifiably charged, the best of both worlds.

But the Egyptians would not do this, and with their high self-esteem, they were very good at hiding and isolating the truth, and even refused to admit it. As the oldest tourist country in the world, although there are many people coming and going, the real veil is even more difficult to uncover than imagined.

In the southeast, there is a special area where the landmark Saladin Castle and the garbage mountain Mukatam are located, and in the middle of this area of castles, parks and mountains of ruins stretches a cluster of low, dilapidated, lifeless gray buildings.

Early in the morning or dusk, in the haze and faint sunlight, with barely visible borders, this is Cairo's most famous group of Karafa cemeteries, popularly known as the City of the Dead.

Unexpectedly, the seemingly fashionable Nefer actually came from the legendary City of the Dead?

At that time, I went to China for further study on a work-study basis, worked two jobs a day, and completed the course with a scholarship. When he returned to Cairo, he finally found a decent job in charge of domestic trade, which is also a model of a sparrow turning into a phoenix.

If you search the city of the dead in Cairo online, most of the reports are full of sensational adventures, with eerie soundtracks, bizarre angles, and even anchors who live in tents to live in it.

If tourists wander around the City of the Dead, passers-by will advise you that there are no police, it is not safe, and you cannot go. Nefer introduced that in fact, the life story of the City of the Dead is not complicated or mysterious.

In 969 CE, before the establishment of what is now Cairo, it was already a public cemetery, and between 1250 and 1500 AD, the Mamluks ruled Egypt, and the City of the Dead gradually developed into the most important burial ground in Egypt at that time, where the sultan and the dignitaries of the major dynasties of the time were buried.

The tomb houses were built in the style of a dwelling, and most of the houses had only one or two floors. On the wall next to the gate are engraved the name of the tomb owner and the number of the tomb. The tomb maintains the same structure as the dwelling, with complete rooms and, in modern times, water and electricity.

In the past, bureaucrats and aristocrats used to hire grave keepers to live in above-ground houses to prevent tomb robbers. This kind of tomb guarding work is mostly a family system, similar to the cemetery steward, and because they live in the cemetery all the year round, they gradually settle down here and do not relocate.

Over time, some of the descendants of tomb owners left Egypt and never returned, or all died. But most of the grave keepers of these families still live in the cemetery because they have nowhere to go, and become the real owners.

A considerable number of people were too poor to afford to buy a house in Cairo, where land was scarce, so they had to move to vacant cemeteries.

There is a summer dragon and a summer tiger, there is nothing to be afraid of, SC Johnson walks the streets curiously, although it is a city of the dead, but the needs of the living are readily available, there are mosques, buses, buses, taxis, schools, shops, restaurants and cafes.

It's just that the streets are narrow and scattered compared to other places, but because there are not many tourists here, it is clearly different from the noisy and crowded Cairo, and it is unusually quiet.

In the sixties and seventies, when Cairo had the highest crime rate, a large number of poor people suddenly came in to settle down, and it was a blind spot for the police in Cairo, and the city of the dead was notorious to the point where everyone talked about it.

The government had tried to evict the poor living in the cemetery, but with little success, and the population was booming, so the government acquiesced in the peculiar phenomenon of people living in empty cemeteries, and incorporated the periphery of the city of the dead into the residential security area.

We connected the peripheral road to the main road and moved in 24-hour electricity and water supply. Only then did the city of the dead slowly change from a forbidden area to a residential area.

Immersive found that there is no difference from the outside, people take the cemetery as their home, live next to each other, buy groceries, cook and say hello, sit at the door to drink coffee and bask in the sun, leisurely and comfortable.

It's really not interesting to go around, it's the most boring capital SC Johnson has ever seen. There is no way, I can only go to the museum, after all, it is a thousand-year-old country, and it is not in vain to see the mummies in horror movies.

Walking into the museum, it is worthy of the four ancient countries, with a casual finger of four or five thousand years of history, countless treasures of the town hall, and an amazing sense of age and mystery everywhere, revealing a sense of purity and mystery.

SC Johnson feels like he's in a giant coffin shop full of mummies and elaborate wooden sarcophagi.

I deeply feel that the ancient Egyptians and ancient Romans were particularly fond of playing with stones, as if they carved out their art on the rocks, condensing the yearning for the eternal afterlife. Life is like the sunrise and sunset, and across the horizon, the human world and the underworld coexist in symmetry.

The sun shines on the world during the day and comes to the underworld at night. Death is only a transitional stage of new life, and life can cross the threshold of death. In the well-prepared afterlife, humanity sees a dream of pursuing eternity.

Pyramids, temples, painted coffins, burial figurines...... It's all the traces left by chasing this dream.

Coming to the Tutankhamun Pavilion, the gold is inlaid with various gemstones, and Tutankhamun's gold mask is really exquisite, imagining the craftsmanship of more than 4,000 years ago, and it has not been completely imitated until now, which is the real tyrant.

After reading it, I found that this guy is really a very narcissistic pharaoh, and the Tutankhamun dynasty was actually not particularly rich in history, but because his tomb was built on top of another pharaoh's tomb, which is what we call the tomb pressing the tomb, feng shui taboo, so he escaped the fate of the tomb being stolen and left so many exquisite burial goods.

To say that this guy is also a fashionable man who loves to be popular. A large number of clothes were found in the grave, and next to the clothes was a wooden model made of his size. Even the scarf used in the baptism is of good material, handmade and fine, and it is a big-name top-notch product at a glance.

There were more than 100 pairs of shoes, made of leather, wood, wicker, and even gold.

The ancient version of the traffic star!