![A demolished building in Cairo’s Imam al-Shafi cemetery.](https://imagenes.elpais.com/resizer/v2/WEENBQPWABBFTI5SF34OSRYZMQ.jpg?auth=47c243bae49141ddb5ab73092e1518b76ec594639344cefd227ffac4cade8262&width=414&height=233&smart=true)
Asphalt fever threatens Cairo’s City of the Dead
The 7th-century cemeteries in the east of the capital, of great artistic, architectural and historical value, are being swept aside to make way for roads
The 7th-century cemeteries in the east of the capital, of great artistic, architectural and historical value, are being swept aside to make way for roads