WALLS OF SALAH EL-DIN
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This defensive wall is a ditch dug along Salah el-Din, between Bab el-Foutouh and Bab el-Barqiya.
Having become a vizier, Salah el-Din continued the Fatimid fortifications, wanting Cairo to be joined to Foustat by a defensive wall. In 1192, a moat was first dug along the wall, between Bab el-Foutouh and Bab el-Barqiya. The successors of Salah al-Din continued the protection work from 1200 to 1218.
When work began on the development of el-Azhar Park in 1999, sections of the Ayyubid wall were unearthed and it was decided to begin excavations, which were entrusted to a French archaeological mission.
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