Visit this morning and visit the Catacombs of Alexandria, the largest and most important burial site in Egypt. It is a testimony to the Egyptian belief in honoring their dead. As we tour the Catacombs, you can easily spot the Greco-Roman influence throughout the necropolis. You will walk down a spiral staircase to view these tombs, where over 300 mummies were buried. It was unearthed in the early 20th century by chance in the early 20th century. Considered one of the largest and most important of its kind, the Kom El Shoqafa catacombs have a mixture of Roman, Hellenistic, Pharaonic and Ancient Egyptian decorative art, elements that were common during this period in Alexandria.

Pompey’s Pilar is of the most notable landmarks of the city of Alexandria, it consists mainly of a huge granite column dating back to Roman times. The name given to the column is due to the fact that the crusaders believed that it marked the place where Pompey had been buried. It is said that Ptolemy XIII, presented the head of Pompey to Caesar as a great triumph. However, 19th century researchers showed that the shaft is actually that of the Column of Serapis, which comes from the ruins of the Serapeum of Alexandria, destroyed in 391, long after Diocletian's reign.