Fodor's Expert Review Anfushi Tombs

These 3rd-century-BC Ptolemaic tombs are built on a smaller scale than the Catacombs at Kom el-Shoqafa, but this necropolis has more extant decoration, including paintings on the limestone walls that simulate marble and include various images from the pantheon of pharaonic gods. The tombs are on the spit of land (which at one time was an island) separating the Western and Eastern harbors, roughly a third of the way between the Palace of Ras al-Tin on the western point and Fort Qaitbay on the eastern point.