Gallery · Alexandria · Room 06
Alexandria National Museum floors
Housed in a restored Italianate villa on Tariq al-Horreya, Alexandria National Museum layers Pharaonic finds, Ptolemaic sculpture, Roman mosaics, Coptic icons, and Islamic metalwork — maritime city's land archive when harbor sites stay underwater.
Floors climb chronologically; each room sized for villa proportions — intimate after Cairo megahalls. You sense Alexandria as crossroads, not Cairo's appendix.
Harbor salvage room
Objects from submerged royal quarters and lighthouse-era speculation appear with sober captions — wonder without Atlantis hype. Bronze fittings, stone heads, pottery testify to bay silting and earthquake loss.
Greco-Roman galleries
Mosaic floors still in situ on upper levels — dining room scenes under your feet behind railings. Ptolemaic busts carry Greek realism with Egyptian crown forms; read faces as political branding.
Combine with Corniche coffee — museum finishes in under two hours, leaves afternoon for library plaza or catacomb descent elsewhere.
Room 06 fills Alexandria's gap when sea wind erases visible antiquity — indoor rooms recover what waves hide.