Babylon Fortress
Cairo, Egypt
Babylon Fortress is the Roman stronghold at the heart of Coptic Cairo, built around AD 300 under Diocletian to guard…
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Best Roman ruins in Egypt
Roman Egypt is easy to miss beside the pharaohs, but in Alexandria and Cairo it left monuments where Egyptian, Greek and Roman traditions run together, unlike the purely classical towns of Roman North Africa further west.
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Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa
Alexandria, Egypt
The Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa are a Roman-period burial complex cut three levels deep into the rock of Alexandria in…
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Kom el-Dikka Roman Theatre
Alexandria, Egypt
Kom el-Dikka is the largest open archaeological site in central Alexandria, with a small marble Roman theatre at its…
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The Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa, cut three levels into the rock of Alexandria, show Anubis dressed as a Roman legionary; Kom El Deka has the only Roman theatre in Egypt, beside late Roman baths and lecture halls; the Babylon Fortress in Coptic Cairo keeps round towers and brick-banded walls, with the Hanging Church on a gatehouse. The two Alexandria sites fill a morning; go between October and April for cooler walking.