A Walk Around the Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa, Alexandria, Egypt

Added: 2026-05-24

[00:00:02]Alexandria First stop is young the catacombs.

[00:00:07]So explain Here at the at the first we see this shaft.

[00:00:19]You can see this this shaft from here.

[00:00:21]This shaft called the burial shaft.

[00:00:24]Which was using for lowering the dead bodies down by ropes.

[00:00:29]Okay?

[00:00:30]And after that we can find here Oh my god.

[00:00:57]the catacombs city Oh.

[00:01:04]We are now in the first level.

[00:01:07]the catacombs And after that we will see the second level.

[00:01:14]Okay.

[00:01:15]So where are you where are we? Here you can find the facade of the main burial chamber as you can see.

[00:01:21]It has a mix between the ancient Egyptian art and the Greco-Roman art.

[00:01:26]You can find here these two columns ancient Egyptian decoration.

[00:01:30]Floor in the here you are in the top you can find floral decorations on the ancient Egyptian style. And you can find the papyrus and lotus plants.

[00:01:42]And on the top you can find representations of about three rows. The first one now decoration second one which was a symbol of protection for the >> It's like a chamber.

[00:02:00]So here we are now in the extension.

[00:02:03]Which made by the Ptolemaic people.

[00:02:05]So it's different.

[00:02:07]You can find here the same decoration.

[00:02:10]And you can find Ptolemy the 13th.

[00:02:21]We are now in the after burial chamber.

[00:03:52]>> in the channel The channel was one of the other which are caused by the native people also.

[00:04:01]We tried to imitate the same decoration the same the same design but without decoration. Without decoration.

[00:04:09]haven't any decoration.

[00:04:11]And here we are now in a special one.

[00:04:15]And here we are now in we are the donkey from the Yes, from the Ah.

[00:04:20]What happened?

[00:04:21]Oh, poor donkey. Yes.

[00:04:23]barbecue Because he sunk in the water, so he died.

[00:04:30]Um from about 50 It's part of the history.

[00:04:35]Yes.

[00:04:36]So almost 50 m from up Yeah, maybe um 50 m, so He cannot survive.

[00:04:43]So he died.

[00:05:16]These these bones are from the horse.

[00:05:20]Yeah, all of these bones discovered here were scattered here everywhere.

[00:05:28]Uh when discovered in 1900 but there were more also. There were more, but they were in bad condition, so they removed from here. And these They are in Yeah, well preserved.

[00:05:41]So here you can find a skull of a horse.

[00:05:44]Yeah, this one.

[00:05:46]These ribs of horses.

[00:05:49]And And uh leg boot.

[00:05:52]This leg boot for horses.

[00:05:55]I wow.

[00:06:51]What pony? My towel.

[00:08:07]>> Mhm.