Twenty years after burying him, Egyptian architect Ahmed el-Meligui was forced to exhume his grandfather's remains from a historic Cairo cemetery that is being partially razed to accommodate the growing mega-city. "Nous les avions déjà enterrés une fois, mais maintenant, c'est comme si nous réveillions les souvenirs. C'était très douloureux," says the 43-year-old, who had 23 relatives in total removed from their family tomb, located in a sprawling cemetery known as the City of the Dead in Old Cairo. The Egyptian government says the cemetery's destruction is necessary to build new roads and bridges that they hope will improve traffic in the congested, densely-populated capital, home to around 22 million people. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES