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Looking down at the cemetery of Zawiyyet Al Mayyiteen from its back against the hill, the mud brick domes seem to stretch on forever.

El Minya City of the Dead – Zawiyyet al-Mayyiteen Cemetery

EgyptBy JennyOctober 22, 201415 Comments

I look to my right, centre, left. Mud domes, hundreds, maybe thousands of them, stretching off just about as far as I can see into the desert haze. This is the incredible Zawiyyet Al Mayyiteen, the City of the Dead, a massive cemetery just outside El Minya, Egypt.

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