As a team of French archaeologists excavated a seventh-century C.E. dwelling at Taposiris Magna, an ancient city located around 30 miles west of Alexandria along Egypt’s northern coast, they found two ...

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 ...

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

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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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 ...

Arriving in Alexandria, breathing the sea air blowing across the corniche from the Mediterranean, is liberating. The city has long been Egypt’s gateway to the world. From ancient times it was a ...

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an ancient city located around 30 miles west of Alexandria along Egypt’s northern coast, they found two cold marble eyes staring back up at them from the sandy ruins. Although its nose had been ...