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 ...

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 ...

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A statement by the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said on Saturday that the discovery came during excavation work in the Taposiris Magna area, 45 kilometers west of Alexandria ... which the city ...

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 ...

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 ...