Shāri’ Darīh Sa’d, Street of the Tomb of Sa’d Zaghloul…the mummies of three pharaohs were briefly transferred there from the Egyptian Museum…
-A Field Guide to the Street Names of Central Cairo, Davies and Lababidi
I lived on Darīh Sa’d Street and thought that the neo-Pharaonic tomb at the far end was eerie. If I’d known that mummies had been buried there too, I’d have thought it was even more eerie, but then again perhaps even less, because in Egypt the distance between its pharaohs and modern leaders seemed to me only a short stroll from one end of my street to the other.
