The Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, was a Greek engineering marvel that guided ships ...

Step back in time to the ancient city of Alexandria and Meet Hypatia, a brilliant mathematician, astronomer, teacher, and ...

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 ...

The Northern coast of Egypt is difficult for diving. NOVA: I understand that much of the ancient city of Alexandria has been lost through centuries of building. Were the objects in the harbor ...

In the famous film the city was buried by a catastrophic ancient sandstorm and rediscovered ... commercial center long before the rise of Alexandria. But political fortunes shifted, and so did ...

When Alexander the Great founded the port city in 331 BC, he laid the foundation for one of the most famous and largest metropolises of the ancient world. For centuries Alexandria was the center ...

Pharos, the ancient lighthouse of the port city of Alexandria, was one of the seven ancient wonders of the world. Built on an island in the harbor of Alexandria, the Greeks created a causeway the lead ...

A newly unearthed settlement in Egypt’s north-western Nile Delta dates back around 3,400 years to the New Kingdom era and features a temple believed to have been dedicated to Pharaoh Ramesses II.

Philo of Alexandria was a Jewish leader, philosopher and scholar in the first century. Born in 30 BC to a wealthy Jewish family in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, he was an important spokesman ...