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This gallery has photographs of the main sites North of Cairo, usually visited privately as not part of most Egyptian tours, and includes Heliopolis, Tell Basta near Zagazig and Tanis near the north coast of Egypt
Alexandria Tomb Relief eg961399jhp Egypt Alexandria city tomb carved scallop shell roof Kom al-Shawqaiah catacombs Mediterranean is no longer reminiscent of the ancient city from Pharaonic times and little of that ancient time remains. A few isolated sites can be visited and this is called Kom es-Shogafa, also spelt es-Shoquafa, al-Shawqaiah a necropolis of catacombs and ongoing archaeology. The garden area of this site has many exhibits including sarcophagi, carved capitals as well as a reconstructed Tombs, most well know is known as Tigrane [Tigran] rescued from construction work in Tigrane Pasha Street in 1952. The style of decoration in this tomb is particularly important as it shows the blending of the major influences in the City’s history-Egyptian, Greek and Roman. The City has a distinctly European rather than Egyptian feel to it; it is sometimes offered as a day trip on a Cairo package but is seldom part of the main Nile packages. I hired my own taxi and the driver was sufficiently knowledgeable to take me to the main ‘ancient’ sites I could manage in a few hours. Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, northern, Delta, ancient, Alexandria, city, coast, Mediterranean, sea, Egyptology, Kom, es-Shogafa, es-Shoquafa, al-Shawqaiah, el-Shoukafa, catacombs, rotunda, underground, submerged, flooded, columns, Tigran, Tigrane, rescue, tomb, paintings, reliefs, Osiris, mummified, mummy, niche, carved, Horus, funerary, Anubis, Thoth, bed, palm, fronds, Goddess, Isis, Nephthys, white, stucco, Apis, bull, winged, offering, King, shelves, storage, walls, scallop, shell, reconstruction, building, garden, open, air, museum, exhibits, artefacts, carvings, granite, Coptic, Cross, early, Christian, sarcophagus, sarcophagi, sunshine, blue, sky, colours, colourful, landscape, September, 1996, 35mm, slide, film, Fuji, RDP2, 100asa, colour, scanned, scan, Nikon, FM2, Nikkor, 28mm f2.8
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Egypt Alexandria city tomb carved scallop shell roof Kom al-Shawqaiah

catacombs Mediterranean is no longer reminiscent of the ancient city from Pharaonic times and little of that ancient time remains. A few isolated sites can be visited and this is called Kom es-Shogafa, also spelt es-Shoquafa, al-Shawqaiah a necropolis of catacombs and ongoing archaeology. The garden area of this site has many exhibits including sarcophagi, carved capitals as well as a reconstructed Tombs, most well know is known as Tigrane [Tigran] rescued from construction work in Tigrane Pasha Street in 1952. The style of decoration in this tomb is particularly important as it shows the blending of the major influences in the City’s history-Egyptian, Greek and Roman. The City has a distinctly European rather than Egyptian feel to it; it is sometimes offered as a day trip on a Cairo package but is seldom part of the main Nile packages. I hired my own taxi and the driver was sufficiently knowledgeable to take me to the main ‘ancient’ sites I could manage in a few hours.
Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, northern, Delta, ancient, Alexandria, city, coast, Mediterranean, sea, Egyptology, Kom, es-Shogafa, es-Shoquafa, al-Shawqaiah, el-Shoukafa, catacombs, rotunda, underground, submerged, flooded, columns, Tigran, Tigrane, rescue, tomb, paintings, reliefs, Osiris, mummified, mummy, niche, carved, Horus, funerary, Anubis, Thoth, bed, palm, fronds, Goddess, Isis, Nephthys, white, stucco, Apis, bull, winged, offering, King, shelves, storage, walls, scallop, shell, reconstruction, building, garden, open, air, museum, exhibits, artefacts, carvings, granite, Coptic, Cross, early, Christian, sarcophagus, sarcophagi, sunshine, blue, sky, colours, colourful, landscape, September, 1996, 35mm, slide, film, Fuji, RDP2, 100asa, colour, scanned, scan, Nikon, FM2, Nikkor, 28mm f2.8