On an Egyptian desert rock ridge west of Alexandria and between the Mediterranean sea and Lake Mariout is Kom el-Nugus, an ...

By the time Napoleon landed at Alexandria as a first stop on his ill-fated campaign to subdue Egypt, in 1798, only a few ancient monuments and columns were still standing. Two decades later ...

Discover how Egypt is enhancing the roads leading to the Grand Egyptian Museum with new murals, green spaces, and improved ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered the remains of a "major" 3,400-year-old town dating to the New Kingdom that was ...

Once pearl of the Eastern Mediterranean, Alexandria, Egypt has long been neglected ... of the most famous and largest metropolises of the ancient world. For centuries Alexandria was the center ...

From Cairo, travel along the Mediterranean coast to Alexandria ... Museum offers a state-of-the-art home for Egypt’s extraordinary collection of ancient artefacts. It is now the world’s ...

The Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities will participate in the Global Earth Hour initiative tonight, a worldwide effort to ...

Ancient statue discovered at Egyptian temple may be rare Roman bust of Cleopatra - Not everyone is convinced statue belongs to legendary queen ...

but by an ancient library in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, circa 283 BC? Named after Alexander the Great, the city of Alexandria was once home to the world’s greatest archive of knowledge.