Kom el-dekka is boarded by Abdelmoniem street and Alexandria railway station from the south, and Horreya street from the north. safeya zaghloul to the east, al nabi daniel to the west.
The main street
The avenue, one of excavation kom el dikka sites surrounded by a gallery colonnade, constitutes a prevailing model in the eastern part .
Amphitheatre
The roman theater amphitheater was discovered in 1960, and other excavations followed. It is considered the only circle public building in Egypt. The archeologists called it the Greco-Roman theatre, and it dates back to the Roman period, late second century and early third century AD.
The remnants of the Hellenistic period were used in the construction of its buildings. It consists of 13 rows of marble seats with greek letters and numbers; the first row is pink granite. The building was used as an auditorium that is composed of the dome and the orchestra seating. The theatre was used by the Byzantine period as a bouleuterion, or an assembly hall for religious purposes as one capital carried a cross inside the circle, the emblem of the Byzantine period. The area contains three tombs dating back to the 8th to the 11th century AD, which means that it was used as a cemetery during the Islamic period.
Classroom
Located to the north of the theatre, it was discovered in 2001. It is a rectangular hall of limestone in the form of three rows, two on the longitudinal sides meeting in the south in what constitutes a platform for the lecture, in addition to similar rooms were found which were different area
Houses
Ruins of houses from the late Ptolemaic period were found and inhabited until the seventh century AD. Other houses represent the Byzantine period.
Roman bathroom
It is a bathroom from the roman period consisting of high ground on pillars of red brick. The bathroom consists of the tepidarium and caldarium for cold and hot water, a hot air room, and a sauna room, it had operated until the Arab conquest.
Cistern
A large building south of the bathroom above the street level was used to feed the bathroom with water. It has four cisterns connected under the ground by a channel to deliver water to the cistern, which supplies water to the bathroom.
The open area exposition
When entering kom el dikka through the gate of Abdel moneim street, one sees on the left an open exhibition for some archeological pieces that were excavated from the seabed in the area around the fort of qaitbay and the eastern port. Exhibited are some of the statues discovered, such as sphinxes, which date back to the middle kingdom 12 th dynasty and the new kingdom 19 dynasty, as well as late period 26 th dynasty, and one of the obelisks, which belong to the king seti first along with some marble sarcophagus and capitals.
Birds villa
Located in the eastern part of the Roman theatre, it is one of the best roman residential buildings discovered in Alexandria. It is distinct from the mosaic flooring picture dating back to the reign of Hadrian (117-138 ad) . It consists of some mosaic images, such as the figure of a tiger that dates back to 100 AD, where marble glass and pottery are used, and the flower picture and picture depicting some birds.