Don’t miss the Roman Amphitheatre in Alexandria if you ever find yourself in Alexandria.
People often say that Alexander the Great made Alexandria, Egypt, the cultural and architectural center of his time. He did this by building Roman buildings and artifacts, like the Roman Amphitheatre, which is still used today.
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Location:
From Cairo, it will take about three hours to get to the port city of Alexandria.
The old Roman theater was built on a hill in a neighborhood called Kom El Dikka, which in Arabic means “the hill of ruins” or “the hill of benches.”
Not far from Kom El Dekka is where most of the city’s business is done. People who live in the area call it “the hill of benches.”
History:
The Roman Theater is like nothing else. It has two rooms that are separated by a courtyard. Each room has mosaic tile floors and enough marble seating for 700 to 800 people.
The new theatre is where the old one used to be.
During the Byzantine Empire, chariot races were a lot like gladiator fights in the arena.
This row of thirteen auditoriums along the northern entrance of the theatre may have been part of the old university in Alexandria, which taught an average of 5,000 students each year.
It was found in 1960 by workers cleaning up the area before a new building was built. It is one of the most important archaeological sites, and workers dug it up so they could start building.
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