The tomb of the Mahdi at Omdurman Sudan The tomb before us is a low roofless building with arched windows surrounded by a court with an arched door on the right The low roof on the right beyond the court is the Mahdis house The entire town which the Mahdi had built as his capital consists of crude one story houses built of sundried brick Stereoscopic card Detail From a series called Egypt Through the Stereoscope text by James H Breasted
