Pompey's Pillar, Alexandria, Egypt.

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Pompey's Pillar, Alexandria, Egypt. Probably the best-known ancient monument still standing in Alexandria, the pilliar actually has nothing to do with Pompey but was erected in 293 AD for the Roman Emperor Diocletian.

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