Kafr El Dawwar is a city near Alexandria where the famous Kafr El Dawwar Battle took place between the Egyptian army headed by Ahmed Orabi and the British army during the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War.
In the vicinity of the city, there are a great number of ancient cemeteries (like Kom Ishu, Kom El Farag, Sidi Ghazi, Kom Defshu, Kom El Terfayeh, and Tell El Kanaies), where remains of pottery and some rocks from the Ptolemaic Era can be found.