Cairo home of the Arabian nights greatest city of Africa Egypt The most prominent building before us is the superb mosque of Sultan Hasan the finest example of Saracen architecture in Cairo and perhaps anywhere It was built in to and the Sultan was so delighted with it that he cut off the right hand of the architect under the impression that it would then be impossible for the unfortunate man ever to design another which might rival it Stereoscopic card Detail From a series called Egypt Through the Stereoscope text by James H Breasted
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