Wadi El Natrun and Alexandria, Egypt

December 12-13, 2023
001 - IMG_8588 Tour day 3 Tuesday December 12, 2023 - Cairo to Alexandria via Wadi El Natrun visiting the Monastery of Saint Bishoy...
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002 - P1210105 Wadi El Natrun (Arabic meaning
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003 - IMG_2172 ... Scetis, now called Wadi El Natrun, best known today because of its ancient monasteries remain in use - in Christian literature usually known as Scetis (in...
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004 - P1210133 Monastery of Saint Bishoy, one of the four out of the fifty Coptic monasteries survived and remaining at Wadi El Natrun, played a crucial role in the history of...
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005 - IMG_2122 Monastery of Saint Bishoy, the most eastern surviving Christian monastery in Wadi El Natrun, founded by St. Bishoy; it's said that St Bishoy was born in the...
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006 - IMG_2171 Wadi El Natrun, a northwesterly oriented desert depression about 32 miles long located in the Western Desert near the delta approx 56 miles northwest of Cairo ;...
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007 - IMG_8594 12/12/2023 Alexandria, Egypt - see the rainbow out there? Alexandria, located on the southern coast of the Mediterranean in the Far West Nile delta area...
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015 - P1210248 Wednesday December 13, 2023 - tour day 4 itinerary - guided sightseeing in Alexandria including the Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa, Pompey’s Pillar, the...
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017 - IMG_2223 ... the catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa, the entrance using a spiral staircase built according to the common rituals of the Roman period... Catacombs of Kom El...
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009 - P1210210 ... a spiral staircase built with larger steps at the beginning and smaller ones at the end leading to the first underground consisting of a corridor that...
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010 - P1210211 ... at the end of the circular room, some steps lead to a second basement full of rooms, corridors, chambers, and most of the tombs of Kom El Shoqafa...
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011 - IMG_2198 ... the most important part of the second underground is the room where there are three sarcophagi with Greco-Roman decorations; the middle one has reliefs...
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012 - IMG_2199 ... the cemetery of Kom El Shoqafa was built in the Roman era, and it was found by chance in September 1900 when a donkey fell into the main hole of the...
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013 - IMG_2218 Catacombs of Kom El Shohafa - Alexandria, Egypt 12/13/2023
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014 - IMG_2219 ... the tombs of Kom El Shoqafa consist of a group of underground catacombs, most of which belong to the Romans, who were influenced by the Pharaonic...
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016 - P1210251 Catacombs of Kom El Shohafa - Alexandria, Egypt 12/13/2023
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020 - IMG_2227 ... the catacombs in the Kom El Shoqafa cemetery, one of the Seven Wonders of the Middle Ages due to their combination of the Greek, Egyptian and Roman...
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018 - IMG_2224 Catacombs of Kom El Shohafa - Alexandria, Egypt 12/13/2023
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020 - IMG_8598 ... reaching the Pompey's Pillar after a short 10 minutes stroll from the Catacombs... Alexandria, Egypt 12/12/2023
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021 - P1210266 ... Pompey’s Pillar Alexandria, the only known free-standing column in Roman Egypt... 12/13/2023
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