One of the oldest monuments in the world. It is also one of the most famous monuments. The Alexandria Archeology area is always keen to hold special archaeological events in the area of Al-Sawari area, most recently World Heritage Day celebrations. This column was erected in the year 292 AD, on the hill of Bab Sedra. Was erected in honor of the Emperor Diocletian in the third century AD, the last surviving remnant of the Serapium Temple erected by Postumus.
The column is named after the column Sawari to the Arab era, where it is believed that the result of the height of this column towering between 400 other columns, which is similar to the battles of ships, and therefore called the Arabs column Sawary, which later distorted to Alswari, has known column Sawary error since the Crusades The reason for this error is that some Europeans thought that the Roman commander Pompey, who fled to Egypt to flee Julius Caesar and was killed in Egypt, thought that his head had been placed in a precious burial jar and placed over the crown of the column.
The column is a single piece of diameter at the base of 2.70 meters, and at the crown of 2.30 meters. The total height of the column, including the base, is about 26.85 meters. On the western side of the column are two accessible bases under the ground. Of pink granite dates back to the era of Ptolemy VI, on one of which is an inscription of King Horb Mohab from the eighteenth Dynasty.