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Alexandria & the Coast
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Alexandria & the Coast

The Mediterranean city of the Ptolemies — a lighthouse site, a library, and good seafood.

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The granite shaft of Pompey's Pillar rising above a sphinx on the ruined Serapeum hill in Alexandria
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Pompey's Pillar

A single column of Aswan granite on a hill of rubble — the last thing standing of the Serapeum, and nothing whatever to do with Pompey.

The carved doorway of the main tomb chamber at Kom el-Shoqafa in Alexandria, flanked by serpents in relief and round Medusa shields
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The Catacombs of Kom el-Shoqafa

A Roman tomb cut three levels into the rock under Alexandria, where Egyptian, Greek and Roman art collide in a single room.

The pale stone walls of Qaitbay Citadel on its breakwater at the entrance to Alexandria's eastern harbour
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The Citadel of Qaitbay

A fifteenth-century fort built on the foundations — and partly out of the stones — of the Lighthouse of Alexandria.

The tilted granite disc of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina on the Alexandria waterfront
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The Bibliotheca Alexandrina

A modern library on the Alexandria waterfront, built as a deliberate answer to the ancient one that was lost.

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