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	This is a central neighborhood of Alexandria, Egypt.		This is a central neighborhood of Alexandria, Egypt. Shatby is the home of the [[Lazaretto]], or Quarantine House. Shatby Hospital isn't far away, used to house those who need medical attention before being able to move into the city. South and East of the Lazaretto is the Cemeteries European.

	==Tombs of El Shatby (El Shatby Necropolis)==		==Tombs of El Shatby (El Shatby Necropolis)==

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Created page with ";Alexandria 1900 This is a central neighborhood of Alexandria, Egypt. ==Tombs of El Shatby (El Shatby Necropolis)== ===Location=== These tombs are situated at the north of Collège Saint Marc from the seaside, in the city of Alexandria east of Selsela area (ancient Lochias). The tombs were discovered by chance in 1893 and 1904 by chance by Giuseppe Botti and Evaristo Breccia. ===History=== The tombs are considered to be the most ancient tombs in Alexa..."

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This is a central neighborhood of Alexandria, Egypt.

==Tombs of El Shatby (El Shatby Necropolis)==

===Location===

These tombs are situated at the north of Collège Saint Marc from the seaside, in the city of Alexandria east of Selsela area (ancient Lochias). The tombs were discovered by chance in 1893 and 1904 by chance by Giuseppe Botti and Evaristo Breccia.

===History===

The tombs are considered to be the most ancient tombs in Alexandria as it dates back to 320 B.C. The site was first located and explored in the first decade of the 20th century by Evaristo Breccia, the second director of the Graeco-Roman Museum in Alexandria. Breccia revealed an impressive monumental subterranean multichambered complex known as Hypogeum A, two smaller corresponding complexes (Hypogea B and C), and an area covered with above-ground monuments in the form of stepped towers (once bases of funerary stelae, or altars over pit tombs). The site was dated back to the last quarter of the 4th Century and the beginning of the 3rd century B.C. As this period corresponds to the time immediately after Alexander The Great found the city of Alexandria, the site was identified with the final resting place of people from Macedonia, Thessaly, Crete, and Asia Minor who came to populate the new city. Still, Breccia never completed the excavation. In 2020 the site was revisited by an international team working in the framework of the Alexandria Necropolis Project (funded by the A.G. Leventis Foundation). The team, under the direction of Prof. Mona Haggag (University of Alexandria, President of the Archaeological Society of Alexandria), Dr. Kyriakos Savvopoulos (University of Oxford) and Professor Hussein Abd El Aziz, aimed at completing the work of Breccia by fully excavating and documenting the site, as well as restoring it into a modern, safe and fully functional and informative heritage site. The project which also involved Egypt' s Ministry of Antiquities (supervision), the Cyprus Institute (digital documentation, 3D model creation) and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (excavation, recording, study), was completed in 2023 and provided a complete picture of Hypogeum A, identified the monument’s ancient southern facade, and brought to light skeletons, and abundant portable finds in good condition. After three years of systematic work, the Hellenistic necropolis of Shatby is now a modern archaeological park, unique of its kind in Egypt

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Keith at 23:13, 1 April 2025