Researchers from the University of Southern California and Alexandria University found that the city’s ancient foundations are deteriorating at an unprecedented rate, leading to widespread ...

Likewise, the city's later fall to the Arab conqueror ‘Amr ibn al-ʿĀṣ in 642 C.E. made Islam dominant in Egypt, as it has remained since. Unfortunately, ancient Alexandria's most important ...

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

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 ...

Few figures in Ancient Greek literature have been as consequential, controversial, and enigmatic as Apollonius of Rhodes.

While studying a Greek settlement from 332BC in northern Egypt, archaeologists made a stunning discovery — a hidden mud brick ...

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 ...

Callimachus, the Ancient Greek genius, influenced library organization and the poetic preference for shorter verses over long ...

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 ...

People watch a sound and light show, which tells the history of the founding of the ancient city of Alexandria, at the ...

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.