Only when the city’s fortunes revived in the early 1990s and Alexandria began sprouting new office and apartment buildings did archaeologists realize how much of the ancient city lay ...

Pharos, the ancient lighthouse of the port city of Alexandria, was one of the seven ancient wonders ... Ptolemy commenced this magnificent building around 297 BCE, to protect ships from the precarious ...

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

NOVA: I understand that much of the ancient city of Alexandria has been lost through centuries of building. Were the objects in the harbor protected from that development and does that make this ...

The historic city of Alexandria ... found that the city’s ancient foundations are deteriorating at an unprecedented rate, leading to widespread building collapses. The data paints a grim ...

Now he sits with a few like-minded people in an office in an old building ... the ancient world. For centuries Alexandria was the center of the Eastern Mediterranean. The library of the city ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered the remains of a "major" 3,400-year-old town dating to the New Kingdom that was possibly built by King Tutankhamun's father and later added to by Ramesses II, a ...

Last year, a building collapsed in the Wardiyan neighborhood of Alexandria, killing four people. This incident is emblematic ...

The people of ancient Egypt developed technology, architecture ... From Cairo, travel along the Mediterranean coast to Alexandria, a city rich in Greek and Roman heritage. Explore the eerie ...