Ancient history of Alexandria

Anyone interested in ancient history and how it is maintained, there awaits many discoveries. The city built new hotels, restored monuments and upgraded airport, given in the order of the promenade and the main street of the city, restored the facades of historic buildings, restored and Greco - Roman Museum. The plans of the city and the restoration of one of the seven wonders of the world-famous Faroese lighthouse. Thousand years (from 283 g to n. Er. Until 1375), this lighthouse lit the way sailors. Its height is 140 m-do Lighthouse the tallest building of its time. Although from ancient Alexandria was kept not too much and its a big part of today is on the seabed, it is still this city you can imagine, for example visiting the Greco - Roman Museum, where there are tens of thousands of exhibits of the Ptolemaic era. The so-called pillar of Pompey (in fact, not having to Pompey no relation) of red granite on the acropolis of Alexandria established under the Emperor Diocletian (245 - 313). In Alexandria, you can see the Ptolemaic graves, and in recent years, excavations have allowed to see the whole archaeological complex in the area of ??Kom - hell - Dicky ancient university, which until 2008 was taken for the amphitheater, ancient baths, houses and villas with mosaic decorations. From all periods of history the city of Alexandria were my memories. So, the Christian church of Egypt, called the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, and it was founded by the evangelist St. Mark, martyred in Alexandria in 68 Mr. er. It is believed that the cathedral of St. Mark at Alexandria was built on the site of the house first Christian Alexander Sapozhnikov Ananias. The cathedral was rebuilt several times, but there are ancient paintings. A mosque of Abu - Al - Abbas - Al - Murcia (XVIII cent.) Is considered a masterpiece of architectural art. Alexandria Museum of royal jewels, located in the palace of Fatima - El - Zahran and open after restoration in 2006, demonstrates collected by Muhammad Ali - pasha and his heirs to the collection of precious artifacts. Here you can see a platinum crown decorated with thousands of diamonds, diamond own Mohammed Alipasha, gold Chess King Farouk and King's garden tools are decorated with diamonds. In 2005 he opened the National Museum of Alexandria, in which, among other exhibits devoted to different periods of Egyptian history, demonstrates the items raised from the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea during the excavations on the site gone under the water areas of ancient Alexandria.