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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 5340BAI/LVii66CAJS (Voyager # 361588)
Stone buildings, a picket fence, electric/telephone lines and palm trees with a mound in the foreground
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