The Karmuz Quarter is an area that was once an ancient fishing village before the city was founded. Alexandria was founded by Alexander the Great in 331 BC. The city grew in less than a generation to be larger than Carthage. In a century, Alexandria had become the largest city in the world and, for some centuries more, was second only to Rome. In Hellenistic Greek and Roman architecture a peristyle is a columned porch or open colonnade in a building surrounding a court that may contain an internal garden. Located in the Kamuz Quarter are the Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa a historical archeological site and one of the Seven Wonders of the Middle Ages. Photograph originally captioned: Giuseppe Botti, the founder of the Greco-Roman Museum (1892), inspecting the remains of an Ionic peristyle courtyard in a large tomb in the Karmuz quarter, not far from Pompey's Pillar. Turn of the century.