Cairo: The 5,000-Year-Old Megacity Where 99% Have Never Seen the Pyramids Next Door
22 million people live next door to the Pyramids of Giza — yet 99% have never visited them. Cairo has been continuously inhabited for 5,000 years, hosts the world's oldest university, and is the largest city in Africa. It never stopped.
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