Alexandria is a city of turning points. When it was founded by Alexander the Great in 332 B.C.E., near an existing Egyptian settlement, the port city represented Egypt's absorption into Greco ...

The Great Library of Alexandria was the greatest source of knowledge in the ancient knowledge. Unfortunately, lack of funding and a cultural purge of intellectualism as well as attacks from Julius ...

Ancient Alexandria was founded in Egypt by Alexander the Great. Alexander's successor, Ptolemy I Soter, founded the library, which is believed to have also been referred to as the museum.

Egypt and the UN cultural body, UNESCO, are reviving the 2000-year-old Great Alexandria Library, one of the largest libraries in the world.

It was made Egypt's capital in 320 BC and soon became the most powerful and influential city in the region. Its rulers built a massive lighthouse at Pharos, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient ...

The rediscovery of ancient Alexandria began 14 years ago, when Empereur went for a swim. He had joined an Egyptian documentary film crew that wanted to work underwater near the 15th-century fort ...