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 ...

Once pearl of the Eastern Mediterranean, Alexandria, Egypt has long ... There is the elegant new library, for example, which the government built in 2002, and the ancient bars where silent men ...

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 ...

What Alexandria presents to him is a record of history and of its erasure. No one even knows the location of Alexander’s tomb, or exactly what happened to the great library of Alexandria ... that put ...

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The Royal Jewelry Museum is located in the upscale Zizinia area of Alexandria governorate ... owned by Mohamed Ali's royal family that ruled Egypt from 1804 to 1953. The museum currently hosts ...

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 ...