Diocletian's Column is the tallest archaeological column in Egypt. It is called the Column of Pompey, and it is also called the Column of the Pillars. Every name has a story.
The story begins in Alexandria, specifically on a hill in the Serapeum area, with a person named Postumus, the governor of Alexandria, who wanted to thank the emperor Diocletian for having helped the residents of Alexandria after their revolt against him and their siege of the city.
As for calling it Pompey's Column, one of the stories mentions that Julius Caesar placed the head of a person named Pompey on top of the column after killing him.
With the presence of the Arabs in Alexandria and their vision of ship masts, they called it a mast column, similar to ship masts.
According to Al-Maqrizi's account, there were 400 columns at this site that were erected during the Saladin rule to protect the city, and that this column was the tallest of them, and the capital of the column allowed 22 people to sit at it.
The column is made of red granite and its height is about 26 meters and 80 cm.
It is the tallest archaeological column in Egypt so far.