Title

Catacombs in Alexandria', 1890.

Caption

'Catacombs in Alexandria', 1890. Necropolis in the city of Alexandria, founded c332 BC by Alexander the Great. The burial chambers of Kom El-Shoqafa, were used from 2nd to the 4th century AD. From "Cassell's Illustrated Universal History, Vol. I - Early and Greek History", by Edmund Ollier. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris and Melbourne, 1890]

Date

1890

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19F22_087

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

60,7Mb (3,3Mb) / 18,7in x 12,6in / 5613 x 3781 (300dpi)

Keywords

engraving city interior arts country sunlight Egypt sun dark science book solar system astronomy death ancient Greek Greece underground sunlit location century burial inside literature chamber concept B&W MONOCHROME Alexandria Day 19th century Indoors black & white black and white B W Hellenistic Ancient Greece Ancient Greek catacomb catacombs Greco-Roman nineteenth century history historic Ancient city The Print Collector 1st century 4th century BC Alexandrian Graeco-Roman necropolis TGN illustration engraving Unknown Alexander the Great Alexander III of Macedon Iskandar Cassells Edmund Co Cassell & Co Edmund Ollier Ollier Cassell and Company Ltd Cassell & Company Alexander III of Macedonia Cassell & Cassell's Illustrated Universal History Early and Greek History King of Macedonia Kom El Shuqafa