Shatby الشاطبي | |
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 A mosque and a church in Suez Canal Street, Al Shatby. The Alexandria Tram line is visible crossing the street. | |
  Shatby Location in Egypt | |
| Coordinates: 31°12′39″N29°54′50″E / 31.210819°N 29.913783°E | |
| Country |  Egypt |
| Governorate | Alexandria Governorate |
| City | Alexandria |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EST) |
Shatby (Arabic : الشاطبيEl Shatby) is a neighborhood in Alexandria, Egypt.
Many important institutes are located in Shatby, such as:
The main Alexandria cemetery complex is in Shatby. It was designed by Sir Robert Lorimer in 1919. [1] It includes the Alexandria Military and War Memorial Cemetery, a Commonwealth War Cemetery that includes the graves of British and Empire service personnel who died in the First and Second World Wars. [2] 2,259 are from the First World War and 503 are from the Second World War. [2]
Also in the military cemetery is the Shatby Memorial, which commemorates 986 United Kingdom and British Empire service personnel who died at sea in the Mediterranean in the First World War and have no grave on land. [3] Most were killed in the sinking of troop ships or defensively armed merchant ships, including HMT Aragon, HMT Cameronia, HMT Leasowe Castle, HMT Osmanieh and SS Persia. [3]
Commonwealth war graves are also to be found in:
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.
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. [6] 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. [7]
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A tomb or sepulcher is a repository for the remains of the dead. It is generally any structurally enclosed interment space or burial chamber, of varying sizes. Placing a corpse into a tomb can be called immurement, although this word mainly means entombing people alive, and is a method of final disposition, as an alternative to cremation or burial.
Brookwood Cemetery, also known as the London Necropolis, is a burial ground in Brookwood, Surrey, England. It is the largest cemetery in the United Kingdom and one of the largest in Europe. The cemetery is listed a Grade I site in the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.
Rookwood Cemetery is a heritage-listed cemetery in Rookwood, Sydney, Australia. It is the largest necropolis in the Southern Hemisphere and is the world's largest remaining operating cemetery from the Victorian era. It is close to Lidcombe railway station about 17 kilometres (11 mi) west of the Sydney central business district. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.
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A hypogeum or hypogaeum is an underground temple or tomb.
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Annibale Evaristo Breccia was an Italian egyptologist, the second director of the Greco-Roman Museum of Alexandria and rector of the University of Pisa.
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