Today it's a fairly nondescript intersection, but 2000 years ago this was the dead centre of the second-biggest city on earth. The street with the red-coated pedestrian walking down it was called the Way of the Soma, and the mausoleum of Alexander the Great is reputed to have been located on it, within 100 metres to the left of where I was standing when I took this picture; some people think it's still there, awaiting rediscovery. The street the cyclist is riding along was called the Canopic Way (because it led to the nearby city of Canopus); it featured a collonade along its length.
