Babylon Fortress
by Debbie Oppermann
Title
Babylon Fortress
Artist
Debbie Oppermann
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Photograph - Photography
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"Babylon Fortress" by Debbie Oppermann. It has been said that many of Cairo's residents
know little about the Fort of Babylon, though certainly the Christians do, because several of their oldest churches are built into or on its walls. The area is called Old, or Coptic Cairo (Masr el Atika), for this is the oldest part of the city, and the remains of the fort are Cairo proper's oldest original structure. Cairo owes its existence to this fort. However, the ancient Egyptians were conscious almost from the start that this region, on the borders of Upper and Lower Egypt and originally two independent kingdoms, was the most strategic site in all of Egypt. Babylon Fortress was an ancient fortress city or castle in the Delta of Egypt, located in the area today known as Coptic Cairo. It was situated in the Heliopolite Nome, on the east bank of the Nile. Since then the Nile has moved about 400 yards to the north.
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