The origins of the Library of Alexandria are still debated by historians, but it was likely established around 295 B.C.E. during the reign of Ptolemy I — and it was the center of knowledge in the ...

The city of Thônis-Heracleion was once Egypt's largest port on the Mediterranean Sea, controlling trade for centuries before ...

What was Roman Egypt like? In what ways did it differ from when the Greeks had ruled it during the Ptolemaic period?

The statue was found at Taposiris Magna, an archaeological site where some researchers suspect Cleopatra and Mark Antony are ...

The city was Egypt's gateway ... The seafront bears witness to ancient grandeur, with hotels still operating metal elevators and meter-high breakfast halls. «Alexandria died a long time ago ...

Alexander the Great created the city of Alexandria ... been lost when so many of Alexandria’s inhabitants, famous and otherwise, had been put to death in wars and invasions and climate upheavals that ...

Egyptian authorities have arrested two men for attempting to steal hundreds of ancient artifacts from ... near the port city of Alexandria, the ministry said. When confronted by authorities ...

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Alexandria is the second largest city in Egypt, with over five million inhabitants. As a political centre in ancient times, the former location of the renowned ancient Bibliotheca Alexandrina, and a ...

Alexandria, Egypt's second-largest city, overlooks the Mediterranean Sea. It's situated at the mouth of the Nile River on the western edge of the Nile Delta, which is one of the world's largest ...

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