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Originally posted by Stacia:
Where the Catacombs are in Alex?

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According to the Lonely Planet Guide, the Catacombs of Kom Ash-Shuqqafa are five minutes walk south of Pompey’s Pillar. Follow the wall around to the right after you leave the Serapeum and keep straight on. The entrance to the catacombs is on the left about 150m beyond the small midan. And in case you don’t know Pompey’s Pillar it says it is: walk west from Midan Gomhurriya (the train station square) following the tram tracks west along Sharia Sherif and turn left where they do (the area is called Carmous on the map). This brings you onto a busy market street and the entrance to the Serapeum is 300m ahead on the right. It’s a a walk of about 1.5 km.

Have a nice time!

All I know about them is my husband used to crawl through them as a kid. He spent his first 14 years in Alex as a kid so he has known a few people who built their home above a crypt enterance to smuggle out artifacts before civil engineers and construction crews found them in the last decade.

Its strange to see how Greco-Roman burials in Alex took up so much of ancient Egyptian rituals and rites.

But too creepy for me!