Standing tall on the island of Pharos in ancient Egypt, the Lighthouse of Alexandria once soared over 350 feet, guiding ...

After centuries beneath the waves, 22 massive stone blocks from the ancient Lighthouse of Alexandria have been recovered from ...

Thirty years after its discovery, pieces of the Lighthouse of Alexandria, which stood watch long ago in the harbors of ...

A n international team of archaeologists successfully raised 22 monumental blocks from the seabed near the site of the ...

The story of Greeks in Alexandria goes back more than two millennia, when Alexander the Great established the city.

Two thousand ago, the Thomas Edison of the ancient world lived in Alexandria, Egypt where he tinkered, built and wrote about some of the most amazing and whimsical machines the pre-industrial ...

Our knowledge of the ancient world could be rewritten following a shock new claim about Alexander the Great. The Egyptian city of Alexandria – Alexander's most famous relic – was in fact not ...

The Egyptian city of Alexandria, home to one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, may have been built to align with the rising sun on the day of Alexander the Great's birth.

Coastal erosion threatens ancient city, and many others Date: February 20, 2025 Source: University of Southern California Summary: Research on the vanishing coastlines of Alexandria, Egypt, offers ...

Ancient Spearhead Points to Earliest Humans in Alexandria. By Amy Orndorff. August 16, 2007 at 1:00 a.m. EDT.