The Kom al-Shuqafa cemeteries are a historical archaeological site located in Alexandria, in the Kom al-Shuqafa area, south of the Mina al-Basal district, and it is considered one of the most important cemeteries in the city, and it is considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World in the Middle Ages. The cemetery consists of a series of Alexandrian tombs, statues, and archaeological remains of Pharaonic funerary worship, and because of the time period at the time, many of the features of the catacombs in Kom al-Shuqafa combine Roman, Greek and Egyptian cultural points. The cemetery’s layout, the bifurcation of the tombs, their sequence and the different decorative elements in them make us believe that this cemetery did not It was adopted in one go, and the excavations confirmed that the cemetery was expanded during the following centuries, but the similarity of the architectural and decorative elements makes us not extend the period during which the tomb was expanded to a long time and the cemetery, or rather the oldest part of it, revolves around a cylindrical well or a birthplace of light carved into the rock and the ladder is built from Square stone blocks in which round windows were formed from the top, the interior face is from the lighting well (the lantern) m, and it is roofed in the form of a vault built from five rows of long blocks of adjacent stone
