Now · Today: the Afterlives · 1866 CE
El-Falaki surveys the ancient streets
Known · Excavated
Mahmoud el-Falaki traces the ancient street grid under the modern city by trenching, for a map made for Napoleon III.
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Sources (2)
- J. McKenzie, The Architecture of Alexandria and Egypt, c. 300 BC to AD 700 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007)
- B. Tkaczow, Topography of Ancient Alexandria: An Archaeological Map (Warsaw, 1993)