This palace was built i the year 1834 AD uder the reig of Mohamed Ali ad was used i costructio by foreig egieers, icludig the Frech egieer Serizi Bek. It took eleve years to build the palace ad was officially opeed i 1847.
The Palace was built i the Europea style, which was commo i the city of Alexadria at the time. It was i the form of a fort, which was built i the place of fig trees, so it was called the Palace of figs. It was left from the old palace, with its etrace which was icorporated ito the buildig of the ew palace which was recostructed by Kig Fouad Moder era by the Italia architect Ferrucci ad became similar to the palace of Abdee.
There are several etraces to the palace, the most importat of which is the etrace umber 1, where it is a remat of the old palace kow as the easter gate. This etrace cosists of six graite colums topped with crows with copper pillars with Quraic verses. The two sides are based o two statues represetig two lios with a marble block with shapes of birds, Opposite.
The secod etrace is a secodary etrace adjacet to the ewly established mosque. There is a third etrace to the palace buildigs by the sea. Aother gate is located at the ed of the palace wall ad leads to the maritime commad.
The palace cotais several buildigs located withi the perimeter of the surroudig wall. These buildigs cosist of the palace buildig which houses the mai ad middle floors, the hospitality pavilio, the media pavilio, the pricesses buildig, the glass corridors that coect the palace with the pricess buildigs, the mosque facig the mai facade of the palace, It is the railway statio, Morsi o the rear façade. There are also two moder buildigs, Al Barqi Mosque ad the Supervisory Buildig. The palace has a umber of distictive halls.
As for the additios of the palace, it is the buildig of the pricesses, cosistig of a groud floor ad two upper floors. The buildig of the trai statio ad al-Barqi Mosque is a simple buildig. Its compoets are simple ad reflective of the fact that the etrace is moder. This is the place of Sidi El-Aref i El-Barghi i 1314 AH
The Aswa cemetery is oe of the oldest cemeteries i the Islamic world. It is made up of two palaces, oe i the orth ad the other i the south. The Aswa climate affected the remais of this cemetery. Which is the most used material i that period, sice the ecoomic situatio of the state ad the people there did ot allow them to use the stoe ad decorate it as it was i the days of the Pharaohs.
The tombs, which remaied coheret eve before the year 1930, which umber (80) cemeteries scattered i the two mai gabbaes, is located i the Tribal Tribal Graves from o. 1 to o. 31 i additio to tombs without umbers, ad is located i the sea cemetery tombs from o. 33 to Tomb o. 55 i additio to To tombs ot bearig umbers
I the middle of this cetury, the had of recostructio ad expasio of the city ad the opeig of the streets to the demolitio of may of them ad left oly scattered models ad the history of this cemetery exteds from the eighth cetury AH (2 AH / 13 AD) to the seveth cetury AH / 13).
Buildig System
These tombs were built o the system of carrier walls, like other Islamic moumets i moolithic forms
The buildig material prevailig i these tombs was brick bricks, except for some parts of these tombs, such as cotracts, domes ad domes. They were built of bricks. Stoe strips were also foud i some tombs such as tombs umber 13 i the easter group of the tribal cemetery, Of the same group, as well as Tomb o. 10 of the same group, ad appeared plaster plasterig i some of these graves, such as Tomb o. 12 i the easter group of the tribal cemetery ad cemetery umber 31 of the same group, ad cemetery o. 5 of the wester group of the tribal cemetery.
Although the Upper Upper Regio cotais may quarries of fie sadstoe, it was ot used i the Islamic era i this area except for tombstoes oly, perhaps due to the ecoomic situatio of the people of this regio.
These tombs are located ext to the Masake Al-Dobbat area i Mustafa Kamel. They belog to the Ptolemaic period (late 3rd cetury ad early 2d cetury BC), ad were discovered betwee 1933 ad 1934 by chace. It cosists of four tombs carved i rock. The first ad secod tombs were carved beeath the surface of the earth, while the secod ad third tombs were partly raised above the surface of the earth.
Chalabi is oe of the oldest Helleistic dues datig back to the 4th cetury BC. It was used util the ed of the secod cetury BC util it was swallowed up by the urbaizatio of Alexadria at the time, ad therefore it is cosidered a Greek cemetery Pure was ot used durig the Roma era.
The cemetery beloged to rich Greek families ad the tured ito a public cemetery over the years. The cemetery is composed of two floors; the upper floor above the groud is shaped like Greek houses, ad the basemet below the surface of the earth is a group of holes carved ito the rock.
I additio to a large umber of tombstoes, which were decorated with may religious views, they were used to close the holes after placig the ash tractor. Out.
This group cosists of five tombs, which are geerally similar to the Alexadria tombs i terms of a ope courtyard ad a frot room for prayers leadig to the fuerary chamber. The oldest of the five tombs dates back to the begiig of the secod cetury BC, ad most recetly to the ed of this cetury, although all were used durig the Roma era. Cemeteries with umbers (2) ad (5) are amog the most beautiful of these tombs due to the magificece of the paitigs above their walls ad ceiligs, i additio to the mixig of this type of wall paitig with the use of decorative architectural elemets take from the aciet Egyptia art.
These tombs are located i the area of Kom al-Shakafa south of Mia al-Basal eighborhood. It is cosidered oe of the most importat tombs of Alexadria. The area was amed because of the abudace of pottery ad uts that accumulated i this place. , Which is three floors below the surface of the earth. It is also oe of the clearest examples of the fusio of Egyptia art with Roma art. These tombs were foud by accidet o September 28, 1900, datig to the period betwee the 1st ad 2d ceturies CE. The museum’s garde icludes the cemetery of Tejra, Istagi (the cemetery of the roses), Silvago, ad some archaeological fids.
Is the largest ad most importat Egyptia temples. The aciet Egyptias called it Ibt Sut, which meas “the time of the chose places of the Throe of Amu”; the worship of the god Amu was dedicated to the head of the Good Triity with the death of Khosu. It cosists of a complex of temples ad architectural elemets built by the aciet kigs of Egypt from the Middle Kigdom util the Ptolemaic period. It is surrouded by a huge mud brick wall ad is exteded by the port of the west. ewly discovered Roma ad Roma baths i frot of the first edifice.
The crak cotais the temple of the goddess Mott, which ca be reached through the easter rams road of the teth edifice of the temple of Karak, surrouded by the east, south ad west of the holy lake.
The temple was dedicated to the goddess Amu Ra’s wife, mother of god Khosu, ad was built by Amehotep the Third ad added to the kigs several additios util the Ptolemaic era. The temple has two small temples iside it; the first dedicated to the god Khosu dates back to the 18th Dyasty, while the secod was dedicated to the worship of the god Amu ad is due to Ramses III.
The temple begis with a courtyard ad the a courtyard with several statues of the goddess “Sakhmet” depicted as a lady with the head of a lioess, a picture of the goddess of death, ad the we reach aother courtyard of colums ad the the hall of the saits followed by the Holy of Holies.
The aciet Egyptia called it Ibt Rasit (the souther Haram), distict from the Karak Temple to the orth of it. The buildig was dedicated to Kig Amehotep the Third, ad was dedicated to the cult of Amu Ka Motif, oe of the images of the Amoite god, to which Amehotep the Third beloged, to prove his etitlemet to the throe ad record it o the walls of the Holy Chamber of Birth. Kig Ramesses II completed it by addig a ope courtyard. There are also booths datig back to Hatshepsut ad Thutmose III. Alexader the Great also had traces of him iside the temple. Luxor Temple is coected to the temple of Karak through the processios of the Grad, which is decorated o both sides statues of Kig akhtebo I i the form of the Sphix.
It is omada called the ew where the existig moumets were moved from its origial locatio about 2.5 km durig the ubia rescue campaig, icludig the Temple omada, the Temple of Durr, ad the cemetery of Beot.
Tuthmosis III ad Amehotep II were omada built. They built the iterior of the temple ad later the temple was added to the temple by Tuthmosis the Third ad Tuthmosis the Fourth to commemorate the victories of the secod Battle of Byblos. It was restored ad reovated by Kig City I ad trasformed the temple ito a church i the early Christia period. A brick dome was built over the roof of the temple ad the iscriptios were covered with a layer of plaster. The temple is therefore the oldest ad most preserved of the Egyptia temples.
The temple was omada importat i the era of the moder state because of its strategic locatio, which emphasizes the Egyptia sovereigty o the souther border ad shows this is clear through the scees that Egyptia kigs kee to register o the walls of the temple; the most importat iscriptios iscriptio Kig “Amehotep II,” which documets his victories Syria campaig (1424 BC), as well as the text of the completio of the costructio of the temple i the third year of the reig of Kig “Amehotep II”, as well as aother view of Kig “Mereptah” documets the kig’s success i repellig the Libya attacks o the Egyptia border (1209 BC).
The temple of the moastery is located about 500 meters from a temple omada . This temple was adopted i the moutai slopes o the easter bak of the ile. It dates back to the reig of Kig Ramses II. This temple was dedicated to the idol “Ra Hor My Sister”, “Amu Ra” “Ptah”, ad Kig “Ramses II” himself.
May parts of the temple have bee destroyed, but may of the scees ad iscriptios are still i good coditio. The most importat of these are the scees of the Ramses II campaig o ubia, as well as the worship scees depictig Ramses II’s relatioship with the various gods. The moks.
The cemetery of Beot is the oly cemetery amog the cemetery of the cemetery “Aaba” (the capital of Lower ubia sice the age of the eighteeth family), which was saved; for the bad coditio of the rest of the graves, which were all clicked i the rocks of moutai slopes, where the cemetery was moved to its curret locatio 40 How much of its origial place. The cemetery is called “Pot”, who served as deputy kig i Lower ubia durig the reig of Kig Ramses VI. The walls of the cemetery are decorated with chapters of the Book of the Dead, as well as scees depictig Beot ad his wife worshipig some local idolaters, as well as a scee depictig “Beot”, which presets gifts to the statue of Kig Ramses VI,
The temple was re-istalled 4 km from its origial locatio with the temples of Al-Dikka ad the Holocaust i the area kow as the Valley of the Seve.
The temple has a distictive architectural desig, with its frot ad frot facig stoe, while the ier part of it is carved ito the rock.
The temple was used as a church durig the period of Roma persecutio. Its statues were destroyed ad its iterior walls were covered with a layer of mortar, which resulted i the preservatio of may aciet Egyptia iscriptios ad iscriptios.
