#catacombs of kom el shoqafa
Imagine a city with all the knowledge in the world, a wealth of writers, artists, scientists and philosophers debating and pioneering thought. An ancient crossroads of art, literature and architecture. A climactic convergence that would yield a new form of culture, a new form of society. In the great city of Alexandria, cosmopolitanism was born. The capital of a growing Ptolemaic dynasty and later of Roman Egypt; Alexandria became an expanding commercial hub linking the Mediterranean, the Nile valley, Arabia,…
