Graeco Roman museum was built in 1892 as a small building located in Horreya Road. In 1895 it was transferred to the present site near Gamal Abd El- Nasser Road in Alexandria at 5 El-Mathaf El-Romani Street, with eleven galleries and has been gradually enlarged in later renovation stages. It contains a very big variety of coins from different countries, chronologically arranged and dating back from 630 BC to the Ottoman period in the 19th century.
The museum hosts 25 gallery halls in total and it was inaugurated in 1985; each hall features artifacts from different eras, with a variety of relics such as great statues, pottery, mummies and religious imagery.
Graeco-Roman Museum boasts of an impressive array of over 40,000 pieces of art and artifacts that span back to the 3rd Century BC until the 7th Century AD and documenting 2000 years of Egypt’s history.
The first five halls contain artifacts related to early Christianity in Egypt, while hall six features a marble head of Alexander the Great and the statue of the ”Aphis” ball, a sacred symbol of ancient Memphis.
The hall no. 8 features mummified Romans, an interesting example of how ancient Egyptian traditions had impressed the Romans of that time as well as in Hall 17, there are two headless Sphinxes dating from Ancient Egypt’s 12th D, statues of the gods Venus, Apollo and Aphrodite in Hall 16.
Graeco Roman museum
In the museum, shifts from pagan religions to Christianity can also be seen in the exhibits which include mummies, Hellenistic statues, busts of Roman emperors, Tangara figurines, and early Christian antiquities.
Roman Museum’s focus on the Graeco-Roman presence in Alexandria, providing a glimpse back into a fascinating era of when Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome merged together within Egypt.
Head of Alexander
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