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 […]

Down below the amphitheater, and rarely visited is a small, carefully restored Roman home with beautiful mosaics.

Connected to the Catacombs of Shouqafa is a deep, brick arched hall — underground — called the Hall of Caracalla.

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

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.