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Al-Shoqafa Catacombs:
They are the largest
Roman cemetery in Alexandria, constructed at the beginning of
the IInd century AD Matching both Roman and Pharaonic arts, they
are composed of three floors cut in the rock at a depth of 100
feet.
Mareya
Port:
The Mareya port situated
on the Lake Mariotis, used to be the main commercial entry to
the Nile valley from Pharaonic times to the Greaco Roman era.
Its situated on the Amreya Borg El Arab road.
Marina
ruins - Alamein:
An ancient city dating
to the Roman epoch has been discovered in Alamein located directly
on the Mediterranean cost.
This newly discovered
sight lies a few meters from Marina Alamein touristic city. The
discovered city dates back to the third century BC and its roman
name was leukasis, which means The White Armour.
It used to be an important touristic city for the statesmen in
the roman epoch where it throws light on the methods of inhabitation
and construction of the north cost and the structure of its population.
It extends to a distance
of 2 kms on the cost. The discoveries include large water cisterns
whose never found likes anywhere else, also a sewage disposing
station, some villas and a building which is thought to be a temple
for the Goddess Isis. Also, a number of public cemeteries were
discovered - having domes, pillars and lots of rooms containing
a large number of mummies found in depths ranging from 7 to 10
ms below the earths surface, large number of clay pots,
incense altars and some small bowels known by the name of
The Bowels of Tears where the level of tears shed by the
visitor of the dead used to express the extent of his devotion.
A precious watch was also found, some finely made pots of alabaster
together with several architectural elements particularly engraved
designs on the ceilings of the discovered villas which express
the tradition of the inhabitants of that city. |