The origins of the Library of Alexandria are still debated by historians, but it was likely established around 295 B.C.E. during the reign of Ptolemy I — and it was the center of knowledge in the ...

It is a melancholy story, the one that Cavafy yearned to recover when he could only speculate and dream about what had been lost when so many of Alexandria’s inhabitants, famous and otherwise, had ...

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 ...

Old Temple Dedicated to Egyptian Cat Goddess Bastet Discovered by Archeologists Near a Train Station The Supreme Council of ...

The statue was found at Taposiris Magna, an archaeological site where some researchers suspect Cleopatra and Mark Antony are ...

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A statement by the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said on Saturday that the discovery came during excavation work in the Taposiris Magna area, 45 kilometers west of Alexandria ... whose name the ...

Egyptian authorities have arrested two men for attempting to steal hundreds of ancient artifacts from ... near the port city of Alexandria, the ministry said. When confronted by authorities ...

Archaeologists have discovered multiple artifacts depicting ancient Greek deities in the ancient city of Finziade in Sicily.

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 ...