Download or read book The Story of Cairo written by Stanley Lane Poole and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2017 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cairo is in the fullest sense a medieval city. It had no existence before the Middle Ages; its vigorous life as a separate Metropolis almost coincides with the arbitrary millennium of the middle period of history; and it still retains to this day much of its mediaeval character and aspect. The aspect is changing, but not the life. The amazing improvements of the past hundred years have altered the Egyptian's material condition, but scarcely as yet touched his character.