Alexandria, Egypt, represented a melding of cultures in the late first century A.D. Traditions of Greece and Rome overlay the city, the cult of Christianity was gaining ground, and memories of ancient Egypt's great kingdoms still lingered. Little of that has survived above the ground. Below it, however, are haunting reminders of a culture that existed 1,900 years ago—the Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa. The necropolis consists of a series of Alexandrian tombs of the Pharaonic funeral cult with Hellenistic and early Imperial Roman influences. The facility was in use from the second to the fourth century.