Ancient Cultures | Cairo
“From the terrance of the mosque is what I should imagine the finest view in the whole world. Cairo, which is immense, lies at the feet, forest of minarets and domes and towers. The Nile flows his seldom course beyond, the waters being still out (it is now high Nile), and the three Pyramids stand sharp against the sky. Here Osiris and his worshipers lived; here Abraham and Moses walked; here Aristotle came…here, perhaps, our Saviour’s mother brought her little son to open his eyes to the light. They are all gone from the body; but the Nile flows and Pyramids stand there still.”
– From the Letters of Florence Nightingale