Once upon a time it was Heliopolis, one of Egypt’s oldest cities. Pharaohs believed that the sun god birthed the world here, and they built statues, temples and obelisks in his honor (though they would never deign to live there themselves). Fast forward 5,000 years. Heliopolis is now Matareya, a working-class slum in Cairo. Unfinished buildings line mud roads, […]
Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/03/11/archaeologists-went-digging-in-a-slum-they-found-a-massive-pharaoh-statue/
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