February 23, 2003.Reading time 1 minute.
In the same dig as the Villa of the Birds and the roman road are the brick remains of what our guide told us was roman baths. They are the only brick ruins on the site. There are a number of rooms and arches visible, as well as drains and sewers that apparently served the little […]
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February 23, 2003.Reading time 2 minutes.
Down below the amphitheater, and rarely visited is a small, carefully restored Roman home with beautiful mosaics.
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February 23, 2003.Reading time 1 minute.
Connected to the Catacombs of Shouqafa is a deep, brick arched hall — underground — called the Hall of Caracalla.
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February 23, 2003.Reading time 3 minutes.
The Greco-Roman museum has one of the best collections of Roman and Greek artifacts in Egypt. Nearly 40.000 items are arranged throughout the museum, dating from about 300 BC to 300 BCE.
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February 23, 2003.Reading time 3 minutes.
The city of Alexandria was indeed founded by Alexander the Great in 332 BC. He had conquered Egypt and constructed a capital city along the coast. It was the first egyptian city built on the Greek model, with grid-like streets
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February 23, 2003.Reading time 3 minutes.
This is one of the oddest monuments in Alexandria, it looks completely out of place — just a single granite column, standing on a hill, for no apparent reason. It has been called “An imposing by ungraceful object”, and it really is
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February 23, 2003.Reading time 3 minutes.
On promontory jutting out into the Mediterranean stands the Fort of Sultan Qaitbay, a huge castle reached by a long causeway along the bay
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February 23, 2003.Reading time 2 minutes.
In the same hillside where the Roman Amphitheater has been excavated. an ongoing dig is revealing a Roman street — residential areas, shops. pavements, and baths from the third century BCE
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February 23, 2003.Reading time 4 minutes.
One of the most interesting things about Alexandria, I think, is that there is an entire, older Roman city beneath the modern one. In the few places they have dug down they have revealed Roman roads, baths, houses, streets and theatres.
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