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Cairo’s 1,000-year-old City of the Dead cemetery razed for new highway
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Though many in Cairo support the roadwork to unclog congestion in the overcrowded city, the cemetery destruction has sparked an outcry that is unusual in a country where dissent has been quelled for years under el-Sisi.
Five members of a committee of experts formed by the government to study the cemeteries resigned in protest, saying authorities ignored its recommendations that demolitions be halted and alternatives to the routes be found.
Amongst the gothic, moss-covered tombs are the graves of famous historical figures like Jim Morrison, Frederic Chopin, Isadora Duncan, Marcel Proust, and Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani.
The burial site features over 1,000 intricately carved and brightly painted wooden grave markers rich with black humour poems and naive illustrations.
Highgate Cemetery in north London is home to the tomb of German sociologist and political theorist Karl Marx and many other impressive or unusual monuments.
Between the winding paths overgrown with vegetation, there’s a piano grave marker for pianist Harry Thornton and a copy of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, one of the original Seven Wonders of the World, for newspaper baron Julius Beer.
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