A woman who lives in the Cairo Necropolis cleans a tomb, outside her home in Cairo, Egypt, October 23, 2015. In the sprawling Cairo Necropolis, known as the City of the Dead, life and death are side by side. Amid a housing crisis in Egypt, and with the population of greater Cairo estimated at about 20 million, people count themselves lucky to have a place to call home in the graveyards that date back hundreds of years. (Photo by Asmaa Waguih/Reuters)





A barber shaves a man who lives in the Cairo Necropolis, Egypt, October 23, 2015. (Photo by Asmaa Waguih/Reuters)





A person stands near part of the Cairo Necropolis, Egypt, October 14, 2015. (Photo by Asmaa Waguih/Reuters)





Children, who live in the Cairo Necropolis, play football next to ancient tombs in Cairo, Egypt, September 13, 2015. (Photo by Asmaa Waguih/Reuters)





A man works in an alley inside the Cairo Necropolis, Egypt, September 17, 2015. (Photo by Asmaa Waguih/Reuters)





Residents talk in an alley inside the Cairo Necropolis, Egypt, September 14, 2015. (Photo by Asmaa Waguih/Reuters)





Laundry is hung out to dry in the Cairo Necropolis, Egypt, September 13, 2015. (Photo by Asmaa Waguih/Reuters)





A woman washes clothes in front of the small room where she lives in the cemetery area east of Cairo, Egypt, September 13, 2015. (Photo by Asmaa Waguih/Reuters)





A woman sits on a chair in an alley inside the cemetery area where she lives east of Cairo, Egypt, September 6, 2015. (Photo by Asmaa Waguih/Reuters)





A child runs past a tombstone in the Cairo Necropolis, Egypt, September 4, 2015. (Photo by Asmaa Waguih/Reuters)





A boy plays near tombstones in the Cairo Necropolis Egypt, October 23, 2015. (Photo by Asmaa Waguih/Reuters)





A girl plays around tombstones in the Cairo Necropolis Egypt, September 14, 2015. (Photo by Asmaa Waguih/Reuters)





A family talk in their home in the Cairo Necropolis, Egypt, September 14, 2015. (Photo by Asmaa Waguih/Reuters)





A man sleeps between tombstones in front of his single-room home on a hot night in the Cairo Necropolis, Egypt, October 13, 2015. (Photo by Asmaa Waguih/Reuters)





Children walk near an old car in a street in the Cairo Necropolis, Egypt, September 14, 2015. (Photo by Asmaa Waguih/Reuters)





A man walks in an alley in the Cairo Necropolis Egypt, October 17, 2015. (Photo by Asmaa Waguih/Reuters)





A man reads the Koran in front of his father's tomb inside the Cairo Necropolis, Egypt, September 17, 2015. (Photo by Asmaa Waguih/Reuters)





A boy watches a new graveyard being constructed in an alley in the Cairo Necropolis, Egypt, September 13, 2015. (Photo by Asmaa Waguih/Reuters)





A caretaker digs a grave in preperation for a burial in the Cairo Necropolis, Egypt, September 13, 2015. (Photo by Asmaa Waguih/Reuters)





A resident watches as people carry a coffin in the Cairo Necropolis, Egypt, October 16, 2015. (Photo by Asmaa Waguih/Reuters)