Travellers to Alexandria in Egypt can visit the restored apartment of Constantine Cavafy, the favourite bard of Jackie ...

Historic city of Alexandria is on the Brink of Vanishing as Sea Levels are Rising Faster than Predicted The impeccable ...

Named after Alexander the Great, the city of Alexandria was once home to the world’s greatest archive of knowledge. Established by an exiled Athenian statesman the “universal library” of ...

Born in Syracuse, Sicily (then part of Greece), in about 287 B.C., Archimedes traveled to Egypt at the age of 18 to study at the great library of Alexandria. Upon completing his studies ...

The researchers warn that the city - once home to two wonders of the ancient world, the Great Library of Alexandria and the Lighthouse of Alexandria - is now gradually disappearing. In the last ...

However, it was severely damaged by three earthquakes between 956 and 1303 AD. The Great Library of Alexandria was one of the largest and most significant libraries of the ancient world ...