Shatby

[2] Also in the military cemetery is the Shatby Memorial, which commemorates 986 United Kingdom and British Empire service personnel who died at sea in the Mediterranean in the First World War and have no grave on land.

[3] Commonwealth war graves are also to be found in: These tombs are situated at the north of Collège Saint Marc from the seaside, in the city of Alexandria east of Selsela area (ancient Lochias).

In 2020 the site was revisited by an international team working in the framework of the Alexandria Necropolis Project (funded by the A.G. Leventis Foundation).

The team, under the direction of Prof. Mona Haggag (University of Alexandria, President of the Archaeological Society of Alexandria), Dr. Kyriakos Savvopoulos (University of Oxford) and Professor Hussein Abd El Aziz, aimed at completing the work of Breccia by fully excavating and documenting the site, as well as restoring it into a modern, safe and fully functional and informative heritage site.

The project which also involved Egypt' s Ministry of Antiquities (supervision), the Cyprus Institute (digital documentation, 3D model creation) and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (excavation, recording, study), was completed in 2023 and provided a complete picture of Hypogeum A, identified the monument’s ancient southern facade, and brought to light skeletons, and abundant portable finds in good condition.

Shatby Beach