Current Research in Egyptology: Burial Practices in Alexandria

Alexandria is a city with a long history. Founded by Alexander the Great in 331 BC, Alexandria became an important centre of Hellenistic civilisation, and Egypt’s capital for almost a millennium from the Graeco-Roman Period until the Islamic conquest of Egypt by Amr ibn al-Aas in AD 641. There are three main Graeco-Roman necropolis sites across the city: the eastern and western cemeteries, and the Pharos Island cemetery. The eastern cemetery begins at el-Shatby, and extends to the south outside the eastern walls of the city at el-Hadara, and to the east through the areas of Camp Cezar, el-Ibrahimia, Sporting, Cleopatra, Sidi Gaber, Stanley, and Mustafa Kamel. It was in use from the Ptol