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Photograph is in a book with a description beneath ; printed description: "(Leviticus, viii:10.).--Old Cairo is upon the
suburbs of Modern Cairo, and lies between Memphis, where Moses was brought up, and Heliopolis, where he was educated. It is
in the neighborhood of the country in which the children of Israel dwelt in Egypt for 430 years. Near Old Cairo, according
to Josephus, stood the fortress of the Babylon of Egypt, which was founded by the Babylonian mercenary soldiers of Cambyses,
B.C. 525. Diodorus says that the Babylon of Egypt, which was occupied by the site where what is called Old Cairo now stands,
was founded by Assyrian captives in the time of Rameses II., who was the Pharaoh who oppressed the children of Israel. This
shows us that the particular site we see is connected with the early history of Egypt. During the reign of Augustus, Old Cairo
was the headquarters of one of the Roman legions garrisoned in Egypt." See 5148BAI/LVi66CAJS (Voyager # 358015)
Stone buildings, a picket fence, electric/telephone lines and palm trees with a mound in the foreground
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