In 1892 the studies were started by Botti, but were discovered by chance in 1900, when a trolley fell into one of the second-floor rooms. It was so named because of the ceramic remains found. It was a Private Tomb at the beginning and later became a public cemetery until the 4th century AD.
It consists of 3 floors carved into the rock, but the basement is still submerged groundwater. The main tomb begins with a Spiral staircase around a huge fence where they lower the dead man with ropes to the grave. The first floor finishes with a lobby that sits on either side of the seating for decorated guests and leads the lobby to a huge and circular Rotanda with 5 heads now found in the Greco-Roman Museum.
On the left is another room called TRICLINUM and on the other side there is a hall. The main tomb has a vaulted roof that mixes the Egyptian and Roman decorative elements.
The room consists of the porch and on the two sides of the entrance there are two columns with plant decoration and the crown also with plant decoration and it is also Egyptian. Above, there is a Frieze and in the center an Arch that has the sun in the middle at the end of the porch.
To the right and to the left there are two openings to the entrance with two statues of a man or woman who probably holds the tomb, the features of the face and hair of Roman character, the clothes and posture are Egyptian, the hair is Roman in style.
The entrance is Egyptian and has the sun above with wings and many Egyptian symbols. Isis and Osiris have a crown on top of which the snake is covered by a shield, the room has 3 voids, each of which is carnivorous carved into the rock, and the corpses enter through the openings and into the outer corridor each of which is carnivorous carved into the rock and the corpses enter through the openings and into the outer corridor. Address: Abu Mandour Street, next to Al Masiri Mosque - Karmouz