Alexandria is a city of turning points. When it was founded by Alexander the Great in 332 B.C.E., near an existing Egyptian settlement, the port city represented Egypt's absorption into Greco ...

Based on ancient documents, experts know that Alexander the Great was initially buried ... body was brought to another tomb built in Alexandria, Egypt. However, experts don’t know where this ...

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

Franck Goddio/Hilti Foundation, photo: Christoph Gerigk One of the Seven Wonders of the World, Alexandria's 40 ... marbled metropolis founded by Alexander the Great on the busy streets of this ...

But what many don’t know is that Alexandria ... on the western edge of the Nile River delta, Egypt was founded around 331 BC by Alexander the Great, the iconic king of the ancient Greek kingdom ...

Conquerors love Egypt. Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar ... They pinned him down in Alexandria, at the mouth of the Nile, but he maintained his naval supply lines and waited for reinforcements.

When Alexander the Great founded the port city in 331 BC ... Like so many young people, however, Salah has considered leaving Alexandria and Egypt. Twelve years after the Arab Spring, a leaden ...

Alexandria is the second largest city in Egypt, with over five million inhabitants ... Alexandria has repeatedly attained great importance over the centuries - above all in the fields of culture, ...