Cairo

Cairo is the capital city of Egypt, one of the four great ancient civilizations, is located at the mouth of the Nile River Delta.

Release time : 2016-05-17 17:01:08

source : WTCF

City Introduction

Cairo is the capital city of Egypt, one of the four great ancient civilizations, is located at the mouth of the Nile River Delta. 95% of the land in Egypt is in the desert. The rich Nile River flows through it, bringing this biggest desert in the world some vitality. The green area created by the Nile River is like a leaf of the gingko, and Cairo is at the junction of its petiole and leaf surface. When the Nile River arrives in Cairo, it is like its bonded body is released suddenly and begins to flood. As the biggest city in Africa, Cairo is the most crowded one. Low-roofed houses with a yellow tone, this is what tourists’ first impression about Cairo. More than 16 million people live in this city, but you can hardly find the city center because tall buildings are so rare and scattered that you can only guess where the most prosperous place of the city is by the crowd of people. In Cairo, rich and poor, splendid and dilapidated, modern and classical religions co-exist here, presenting themselves to you without any retain. You can see populated Islamic buildings and also see the relics of ancient Egypt separated in different places of the city; you can see the mosque buildings - the minarets, which are not too high nor too low, and also see the crosses at the top of the Christian churches row upon an row of. You can hardly find an exact word to describe the city. Many stories in The Arabian Nights were set here. Then just let the city guide you to write your own Arabian Nights.

History of Cairo

The history of Cairo can be dated back to the previous Ancient Egypt period, about 3100 BC, when the Lunu (it became Heliopolis after Hellenization) which located at the place where Cairo is nowadays had become the capital of the Lower Egypt the 13th Nome Heq-At. Afterwards, although Lunu was not the capital, it still served as the center for worshipping the god of sun until the Hellenistic period. By the time of the Ptolemy's medium serv